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A specific community for original shortform and longform writing, stories, worldbuilding, and other stuff of that nature.

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What tools do you use for writing? (beehaw.org)

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Was curious to see what tools everyone uses for both writing and storage.

Personally I use Word for writing, Excel for planning and progress tracking, and a local MediaWiki server for note taking.

What about you?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Scrivener has been my default go-to but mostly because I've been attached to it for a while. I reckon there's a lot of better tools nowadays though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will second that all day every day. Scrivener has the ability to scratch all my little writing itches like nothing else has. I’ve been using it so long I’ve still got the old version and it’s just a comfy writing blanket for me at this point.

I thought about updating to the new UI version but I think I’m beginning to understand the crotchety old timers of yore and their attachment to typewriters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve looked at a lot of the other tools that exist and none have the polish and sheer capability of Scrivener. If you just need a place to write, other tools are great. But if you want formatting and output control, Scrivener is unparalleled. And when you’re ready to publish, you can easily produce whatever format you need with intelligent, automated exports. It’s incredible.