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?

  • toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I use vim as my text editor. Its good if you find using a mouse distracting.

    There is a steep learning curve and most people use it for programming. However i can give u a copy of my vimrc file and you can use the novel writing plugin in that file. :)

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I stick to strictly Markdown. because it’s easier (for me) to convert to eBook, PDF, or website - or all three.

    Depending on the platform, I use different Markdown editors. At the moment I’m using Markor on Android and VSCodium on Windows and Linux.

  • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m over engineering the heck out of it. My editor is neovim, which I use for work and to write software too. I write markdown, but it’s not just markdown.

    My stuff is somewhat inspired by the SCP wiki in style, so I’m making it a website with fancy styling via CSS and so on, using Jekyll in the backend.

    It’s a lot of fun and I keep learning more about web dev stuff, but even though I spend a large part of my day today working on it, I hardly wrote any new content. But I have a fancy fake login form for classified data, nice colors and a search feature now.

    Just in case, does anyone know a good markdown editor that with good integration for languagetool, or alternatively one that runs in the browser?

  • mashbooq@infosec.pubEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Joplin. It’s Markdown based, supporting math, tables, Mermaid diagrams, and more. You can organize notes into notebooks, including sub-notebooks, as well as with tags. The desktop app supports full text seach. And it has open-source apps for desktop and mobile, and it’s easy to set up synchronization between all devices using standard cloud storage (I use free Dropbox), which is encrypted whenever it’s not on your devices.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Wonder how it compares to obsidian now 🤔

      Joplin was on my radar for a bit, but haven’t thought much about it since I’m using obsidian.

      The paid sync is kind of a rip off IMHO, but the CouchDB local sync works just fine. Plugin ecosystem is probably what gives me the largest number of niche features.

      It’s all markdown, I push it to a GitHub repo.

      • redsol2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Obsidian is the gold standard for notes apps IMO. I don’t see any reason to move to Joplin if you’re using Obsidian.