![]() So, if you’re looking for a great writing experience on older tech, or you’re after something a little more minimalist. They can be downloaded and edited locally, then re-uploaded once I have signal again. I can write on my phone, my PC, my laptop, work computers – anywhere and everywhere. But it’s syncronised with GDrive too, which means that everything is backed up and instantly accessible. No more of that tricky ‘trying to navigate through GDocs recent docs’ bullshit. You know exactly what file you’re writing in at any one time, and it works on a traditional file system – saved as files, to be found in folders. The Markdown editors I use are a little more clear cut than GDocs. I switched to Word, but then lost my cool when I couldn’t open my chapters on a work computer, which was running an older version of Word… I ended up writing in documents I had no intention of writing in, and I quickly became confused as to what was my most recent edit, and what was my original… The lag mentioned above was one of these issues, but the other difficulty I faced was that it was often hard to know what document you had open at any one time. I used Google Docs for a long time as my default writing application, and encountered many a problem. This is what my screen typically looks like. I can imagine other editors have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves. If you’re working on the whole of your book in one file, or are bringing it all together and need to shuffle through chapters, then this is a super handy feature. One particular app, Typora, features a bookmarking system which enables you to access your chapters through a side panel. If your code is in the right place, then you won’t need to fiddle with header settings, fonts, anything. The amazing thing about this, is that you can pull your Markdown code and post it straight into the back end of your website as a blog piece, and your website will read the code and apply your font settings, header settings etc to it. The most important thing to note is that these views of your finished text are simply reading your Markdown language, and are applying aesthetic themes to that code. Other editors will show your finished product differently, depending on the fonts they use, background colours, etc. On Chrome I use the simple Minimalist Markdown app, which shows the finished product as so: Think of this as a preview of the finished product. Most Markdown editors feature themes, which show your finished product as it would appear online or in print. Generally, these editors are as minimalist as the language itself offering little in the way of aesthetic customisation and instead focusing the user on the act of typing. Markdown editors are editors designed to edit text files that have been written in Markdown language. Weapon Selected: MarkdownĪn example of the full preview, showing headers.īut this is where the editor bit comes into play. I’ve moved on to other programs since then. ![]() This is why I shifted to Markdown not long back – it all began with FocusWriter. ![]() Plus, if you’re a Google Drive user, the Android app won’t sync with GDrive because these companies like to be ass-holes to one another – and the consumer/user gets caught in the crossfire. Maybe you think it’s best to stick with good old MS Word – but MS Word doesn’t have the same functionality on Android as it does on a Windows PC. Plus, Google Docs operates through a browser, and browsers eat CPU and memory… and then there’s the issue of where to keep your files, and how many backups? And are you going to be using just the one device for writing? Because if not, you have to think about cross-platform support. ![]() So, in the example above, if you cut your project into chapters then you’re only looking at 4k to 10k words in one document, and thus avoid the pitfalls Google Docs encounters at the 10k plus stage.īut then you have to think about how you’re going to organise those chapters. This is why it’s important to find the right program for you before you begin, and to think about how you want to structure your writing. You’ve done your planning, so you get started.ġ6,000 words – slow to load the document, lags when scrollingģ2,000 words – scrolling becomes an impossibility, lag when typing Here’s an example you choose to use Google Docs as your writing ‘platform’. Except, the world doesn’t make it that easy. You’d think that working on a novel wouldn’t be all that difficult – you plan, you write. Large projects can be a pain in the arse. ![]()
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