/lit/ - Literature

Microsoft word you utter fucking pseud

>>19314945

Scrivener.
It is native to mac os -- being written especially for it -- and I own a mac. However, I have only used it for my one project that requires extensive outlining of a non-linear subject presentation, and so I have no idea how good it is for screenplays, plays, novels, or prose.
I also have no idea how well it ports to Linux distros or Windows.
I should also say I use a very old mac, so I don't know how the Big Sur and later versions perform.

>>19314951

Word is not a creative platform. It has no native organizational tools or databases.
Outline view is a joke.

>>19314951

>doesn't use notepad

Fucking pleb

>>19314945
Vim. One of the very few programs even remotely as flexible as pen and paper.

>>19314974
It is amazing anyone ever managed too accomplish anything of worth before 2010.

>>19314945
No, I would prefer not to.

>>19314996
>It is amazing anyone ever managed too accomplish anything of worth before 2010.

You keep using that hammer and nails, handsaw, handdrill, chisel and screwdriver while I use my nailguns chopsaw, tablesaw, multisaw, router and drilldriver champ.

I use TreeLine.
It's a very flexible outline editor.
It's also free and open-source.

>>19314945
Ulysses

>>19314945
it's a toss-up between Vim and Emacs

>>19315012
Fairly rare I use nails, tend to stick to proper joinery. Cutting joints by hand is generally quicker unless you have a good number of the same joint to do, no jigs to setup, no test cuts, just scribe a few lines, saw, chisel, fit the joint. There are also a fair number of things which can not be done with power tools sanely and I enjoy these details that are not seen everyday. I do sometimes miss the surface planer and a nice big bandsaw would be nice for resawing, but I would be stuck inside, with hand tools I can grab my saw bench and the needed tools and setup out in the sun, listening to the birds and the lake instead of the tools.

If any of /wwg/ happens in here, old OP says hi, hope you still got the general going.

>>19315042
While I love the power of emacs, I really hate the stacked commands, can not get used to them.

>>19315125
Escape-meta-alt-control-shift!

>>19315164
you mean Escape-meta-alt-control-shift+f release and then press y. Fucking hate that shit.

Paper and a fountain pen

>>19314945
what is a scrivener and why did bartleby prefer not to be one

>>19315002
Based Bartleby poster

>>19314945
I use vim

>>19315012
>>19315125
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoUNwHjkNKs
this guy works with chisels and other hand tools

>>19315241
But im left handed

>>19315280
write in arabic.

>>19314945
Emacs. It's more configurable than Scrivener, can be used to replicate the functionality of scrivener; is more powerful than Word for its search, replace, formatting; is an enduring text editor and it's free.

>>19315280
SO
learn to hook grip

>>19314945
tmux+vim with some additional utilities like spellcheck and latex live recompiling running in the background

>>19314981
So you use Notepad?
Freaking Windows fanboi.
I use Pluma, and write in markdown format.

>>19315298
Does Emacs have a grammar checker?

>>19314945
I use Focus Writer because I can use pretty backgrounds that help me get in the mood. I don't see a reason to use something like Scrivener. I have thoughts to organise and store everything.