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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Bibisco & Manuskript are popular feature rich options.
Generally if you just want to write your thoughts using something logseq or trilium might be more what you want.
I love Scivener
I use google docs. That way, whenver i have a note or phrase to add, i can add it. From phone, laptop, work pc, gaming pc, or my fridge.
Best option. Has made sharing work with friends and getting feedback a lot easier. Despite everyone else’s responses, I feel like Google Docs is by far the most popular options, and I don’t see a reason why not to use it (besides AI training material… but I’m not sure about that yet)
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.
I just use Word, but so many people swear by Scrivener that I think I’m going to check it out.
Scrivener is fantastic for large projects with a lot of moving parts. It lets you keep all of your character sheets, locations, research, notes, etc in one place. It lets you easily move scenes around and will automatically format your manuscript.
Super powerful tool. However, it has a learning curve, and I have definitely used it as a means of procrastination. If you struggle with the habit of actually sitting down to write, maybe stick with Word for a while.
