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Writing software Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:42:48 2021 No.17321597 [Reply] [Original]

What software do you anons do your writing on these days? What's the best free software? Office 365 can go to hell.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:44:02 2021 No.17321606 >>17321597 Emacs, I don't recommend it if you are going to use it only for writing. A lot of people use Scrivener and some other shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:44:50 2021 No.17321614 Pen and paper is the best, then editing as you transfer the text to electronic format.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:44:58 2021 No.17321615 >>17321597 libra or open office

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:47:54 2021 No.17321631 >>17321597 I used google docs all throughout university.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:48:52 2021 No.17321635 >>17321597 I use OpenOffice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:50:17 2021 No.17321642 >>17321597 OneNote >free >cloud >tags >searchable >mobile apps for ideas on the fly Notepad

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:50:31 2021 No.17321646 >>17321597 R markdown. Like holy shit I'm not going back to word, libreoffice or any other shit after that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:51:59 2021 No.17321657 >>17321606 Does anyone know if pirated versions of scrivener work? Thinking about giving it a try it looks comfy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:56:43 2021 No.17321688 >>17321614 Exactly. Use text editors for editing, not writing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:04:03 2021 No.17321730 openoffice to edit, notepad or writebox to write.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:09:12 2021 No.17321765 >>17321597 I used the microsoft word that came with my computer but it started lagging like crazy when I reached about 100 pages of length in the document, so I started using some very simple text program that can handle any length.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:24:24 2021 No.17321851

Try out LaTex. Its a typesystem with many capabilities and lots of templates. It looks absolutely beautiful. Made by Legend in the computer industry Donald E. Knuth, it's both simplistic and elegant. Knuth made it for writing his book The Art of Computer Programming which is the CS equivalent to the decline and fall of the Roman empire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:27:21 2021 No.17321865 >>17321851 >*TeX >for writing I love typesetting with XeLatex, but it's not a good tool during the actual creative phases.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:28:18 2021 No.17321875 >>17321657 No idea, anon. I'm unironically happy with emacs, never looked back and the neighbor's garden doesn't look greener.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:39:41 2021 No.17321942 File: 65 KB, 640x648, ea0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17321597 Text Maker Free by Soft Maker, fuck Microsoft

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:42:59 2021 No.17321961

>>17321688
>t. Has not discovered the speed and power of typing
Typing got me into writing, I never liked it before as my hand writing sucked, but in elementary school when I learned to do so it became a lot easier and faster, I could write my thoughts as fast as they came, thus I have crowned myself king of "too much text"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:43:44 2021 No.17321970 >>17321597 libre office

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:46:12 2021 No.17321993 vim Fountain pen

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 20:52:16 2021 No.17322860 #roamcult

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 21:16:57 2021 No.17323028 >>17321597 LaTeX

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 01:26:06 2021 No.17324634 File: 196 KB, 1280x800, here we go boyos.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here's my novel. 14000 words, 2 days into the Hunter S Thomson diet. It's called PEOPLE MOVER

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 01:54:17 2021 No.17324748 File: 50 KB, 369x380, 1405716329771.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17321942 thanks for the recommendation senpai

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 02:01:35 2021 No.17324776 >>17321597 LibreOffice

Anonymous Tue Jan 19 02:03:55 2021 No.17324787

when i was writing a lot i used Evernote
>quickly create new notes
>notebooks to put similar-style notes in same place
>cloud sync across computers and phone (captured lots of ideas this way)
>can export notes to a file
i stopped using it because i realized i was using writing as a coping method rather than fixing my issues. now i write on paper or in a .txt because i organize everything i create by month then day using folders

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 02:08:17 2021 No.17324809 >>17324634 Give us a lil taste.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 02:29:54 2021 No.17324921 >>17324809 keep your eye on /lit/ the next few days. you'll see it when it happens

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 02:38:30 2021 No.17324966 >>17321851 Nigger like you keep pretending like nigger like me don’t know what latex is.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 02:42:10 2021 No.17324988 >>17321646 This except emacs org-mode >>17321688 Writing by hand is so slow I get frustrated and give up

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 03:48:09 2021 No.17325242 >>17321597 vim, unironically

Anonymous Tue Jan 19 04:37:36 2021 No.17325358

>>17324988
That's what I want from it. It makes me slow and really think about what I'm putting down on the page. Plus I don't have to stare at a computer monitor for hours which really starts irritating my eyes. Try writing with a fountain pen. It makes it very enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 04:43:24 2021 No.17325381 >>17324966 But do you know how to pronounce it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 04:51:07 2021 No.17325403 >>17321961 Literally me, based

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 06:31:04 2021 No.17325726 >>17321597 Notepad ++

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 06:34:46 2021 No.17325739 >>17321851 Whatever happens don't do this. Latek is made to achieve ultra neat presentation in editing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 11:32:50 2021 No.17327197 File: 16 KB, 399x400, 1507647599443.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17324634 >Document recovery A-Anon, you have your novel backed up somewhere else, r-right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 12:38:20 2021 No.17327666 org-mode.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 15:50:48 2021 No.17329039 File: 428 KB, 1050x710, SNOWY.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17327197 lol no she'll be right

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 17:54:14 2021 No.17329846 >>17321688 >Writing speed like ~20 wpm >Typing speed ~80 wpm hmm

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 17:56:20 2021 No.17329867 >>17329846 Slower writing is better because it allows you to better think and set the text down right.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 18:18:01 2021 No.17330029 File: 705 KB, 1256x844, fw.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17321597 Focus Writer. You need nothing else.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 20:42:44 2021 No.17330937 I like markdown text files. Pretty simple and there are many tools (obsidian.md being my choice) to manage, tag, and link the files to each other

Anonymous Tue Jan 19 23:39:40 2021 No.17331960

>>17321614
Buy a decent fountain pen, some good quality paper, and a colour of ink you like. The act of writing itself can be enjoyable. Once you digitize it, (or if you really want to go straight to a computer), I would go with LibreOffice writer. It's a free and open source word processor. Or OpenOffice, that's another choice. I prefer LibreOffice because it's more compatible with Microsoft's formats, and most other people you need to work with or might want to read or edit for you will probably be most familiar with Microsoft office.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 23:53:04 2021 No.17332013 >>17321765 Use LyX, which is a word processor (kind of) that uses LaTeX in the backend

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 19 23:57:45 2021 No.17332033 >>17324634 Hunter s Thompson diet?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 00:58:23 2021 No.17332325 will learning cursive make me write faster?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 00:59:06 2021 No.17332328 >>17332325 not only faster (marginally) but less fatigue as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:00:37 2021 No.17332340 >>17321597 i write directly to github using their web editor for markdown files

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:01:34 2021 No.17332356 >>17332328 >less fatigue can you explain how? i thought it's just about the same.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 01:04:03 2021 No.17332370 >>17332356 you get less hand fatigue because the majority of the movement is driven by the arm/shoulder, not the hand and fingers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 02:57:14 2021 No.17332807 >>17332033 ok it's out https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 20 03:54:29 2021 No.17333059 >>17330029 Basado

Anonymous Wed Jan 20 04:08:15 2021 No.17333113
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>>17331960
>good quality paper
What should I look out for when buying paper? Also, Is it acceptable to write on a lined paper? My words look like it is falling down on a collapsed railway if I write on one that hasn't any single guiding line

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