WRITEMONKEY FOCUSWRITER SOFTWARE

I use also LibreOffice for work and personal tasks. I’ve done extensive technical writing and publishing using LaTex and the popular, very expensive commercial document layout apps. I’ve tried Q10, the excellent yWriter, WriteMonkey, and damn near ever other text editor aimed at writers.

WRITEMONKEY FOCUSWRITER SOFTWARE

Why? For me, my requirements for writing software are simple: I find myself always coming back to Graeme Gott’s FocusWriter. Local app: Everything I use must be locally installed. I write filthy smut and it stored on local systems I can trust using Veracrypt containers. No “cloud” apps like Google Docs or MS Word Online for me: it’s best to keep my writing anonymous. The moment you save to someone’s “cloud” you can easily lose that.įree or one-time purchase: I happily pay for good software, but the growing cancer of software subscriptions pioneered by Microsoft and now adopted by Adobe and the other usual suspects is extortion.

Saves in open formats: I refuse to be trapped in proprietary formats where I need to pay to access my own work. Anything I write in must save to some open format like ODT, markdown or plain text.

Widely reverse-engineered formats like Microsoft’s supposedly open docx format is acceptable as long as the implementation is reliable.Ĭross-platform: Some of my user workstations are Windows. It’s not essential, but I prefer software able to run on both Linux and Windows, even if that means it requires Java.ĭistraction-free: After years of writing in MS Word, LibreOffice and other cluttered word processors, I’ve returned to distraction-free editors with uncluttered screens.

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