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Damien Cosset
Damien Cosset

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What tools do you use for writing?

A lot of you probably write blog posts and articles here, and to a variety of others places. What tools do you use to write your articles? Are there any apps out there you couldn't write without?

I recently started to use InkDrop. It's nice, but I'm not amazed by it. I was wondering what tools people found useful in those situations.

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Jan Wedel • Edited

I love Sublime Tex, so I use it :)
Together with markdown package (highlighting and preview), distraction free mode and spell checking, it’s just a beautiful and great writing experience.

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Mohammad Alahmadi

I either use Dropbox paper. Pretty nice and clean. plus you can export to markdown.

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d.s.e

Usually I'm creating my articles with vim, written in Markdown or RST.

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Glenn Stovall

I keep all of my research and drafts in Evernote. Then I use Grammarly and Hemmingway to edit drafts. For images, I use both Unsplash and Canva. I keep my content calendar in Trello. For longer form pieces (like book level) I like Ulysses for Mac, though others have recommended Scrivener.

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Paweł Świątkowski
  • Boostnote when writing technical post requiring code snippets
  • Typora otherwise
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Jose Gonzalez • Edited

Good suggestions here.

Lately, I use dev.to's editor.

  • Awesome markdown support
  • Super simple (minimalist)
  • Store all my drafts and post in one place
  • Can access just using a browser

Steps

  1. Open browser
  2. Log into dev.to
  3. Click WRITE A POST button
  4. Press F11 (full screen mode)
  5. Write!

It works for me right now.

Hmmm, would be nice if dev.to could provide a dark theme for its website. Ahem... @bendhalpern 😉

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Silvestar Bistrović

Great question.
I am using Grammarly, Dropbox Paper and VS Code.
Recently I am writing drafts directly in dev.to website, since it works great on my mobile device. If I have an idea, I could write it down within minutes. And I am using Markdown on my blog website, so it very easy to copy the post there.

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Edvin Dunaway

I mainly use Vim and Atom

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Adnan Rahić

Typora does the job for me. I like the minimal feel and absence of possible distractions.

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Jose Gonzalez

Sweet! I have been looking for a super simple Markdown editor (that finally works).

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Rafal Pienkowski

I'm using VS Code which has excellent support for the Markdown:

Like other folks, I use draw.io and Grammarly. Last, but not the least I use Github and Github's Gist as storage for code and code snippets as well.