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What do you guys use to write in? (self.keepwriting)

submitted 1 year ago by Claudio to c/keepwriting

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Just a wannabe writer here. I've only ever strung a few paragraphs together, maybe an essay's worth occasionally. I used to work on blog posts in Evernote and I still use it for capturing stray thoughts. I use it as a place for ideas and that's exactly what happens. I never develop the idea, I just write down another one. Years ago I used Word, but thought maybe now there are apps better suited to the writing process. What do others use for an application/ platform?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

On PC, I use KDE's Kate (it's like the Windows Notepad, no formatting, just a plain text editor). On mobile, I've been testing Notesnook (migrating from Joplin), but sometimes I even use Telegram's message composer to write.

If my writing gets too long and chaptered, then I copy-and-paste inside Google Docs, applying the chapterization.

Most of my writings are short/medium stream-of-consciousness texts (also, they hold a spiritual/esoteric component), so formatting is not a important thing for me to write them down.

However, I'm yet to find a good fediverse platform/instance to publish them. I've been hopping between Mastodon instances. Most of them are limited to 500 characters (as by standard), insufficient for non-short texts. I've been finding instances that allow for more than 500, but they aren't active enough for people to interact with them, nor federated enough for reaching a broader public.