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In which program do you do most of your writing?
1/1: In which program do you do most of your writing?
Other polls | 3,463 votes | 72 comments
It's not perfect, but...
I realize that most of us use more than one tool for writing -- I personally alternate between Word and Smultron depending on what it is I'm working on. Nonetheless, you can pick but one as your most-used writing tool. Also, I have a limit of 20 poll answers, so I had to leave a few options out. Sorry for those that were overlooked; you'll have to use the 'Other' option if you use a program that didn't make the list.
Mellel
Mellel
Mellel
Another mellel user
Mellel
Me too. Shouldn't Mellel be on the list?
Mellel
I'm a Mellel user, too.
It's not perfect, but...
I do most of my writing in outliners; since the demise of MORE™, I've been using Inspiration. Then I usually export to Word to fine-tune the formatting.
Mellel
D.
Scrivener
I use Scrivener for most of my writing. It's still in Beta but is more stable than many other programs that have been around for years.
check it out. www.literatureandlatte.com
Boycotting this one
I'm boycotting this poll; I don't know how you could have left Mellel out. Rob, are you behind the times? According to versiontracker, Mellel has had many more downloads than most of the apps on your list.
Boycotting this one
Although there are tons of WPs on the market, I'm not sure how Mellel could have been left off as well.
LaTex
Almost everything I write is in LaTex and I use the excellent TexShop editor to do most of my work.
LaTex
Me too. I use TextEdit for trivial stuff, LaTeX/TeXShop editor for anything serious.
LaTex
LaTeX (LyX)
Writing or Editing?
I voted for 'vi', coz it ought to get more recognition :) But although I use that a lot, I don't tend to do original writing in it; instead, I use it for editing, formatting, and generally hacking around text from elsewhere.
Word, TextEdit & TextWrangler about equal
Depends on the task: write mostly in TextEdit; edit (find/replace/etc.) in TextWrangler; format (headings/lists/tables/columns) in Word.
When I'm working on PHP/HTML files and managing complete web sites, I use skEdit.
Journler
and Pages comes in a close second
Depends
I'd say Safari (I'm a forum nut), but otherwise for actual writing, I use MarsEdit to post to my blog.
Depends
It really depends on what I am writing. I don't use Word much anymore since I graduated but I did use it quite often before. I use BBEdit all the time for HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. For anything that I am going to print normally I use a RTF based app like Mori. I really Mori for note taking and my personal journal and fiction writings.
Depends on the Task
For note taking I use TextEdit. For papers, articles, other academic-level stuff, Word. For things that require slightly more complicated layout (newsletters, fliers) I use Pages.
Depends on the Task
Wow; for all that I simply use one editor program: Emacs - notes in plain text, the greatest layout you get using LaTeX, and if you enter the third formular in your paper, laecture, presentation, ... you'll realize that LaTeX really rocks!
Smultron rules!
Smultron does indeed.
Not really a fair poll
It's a hard poll to answer, because the bulk of my day-to-day work is done in Xcode. My personal time might include doing some html/css work, and I do that in BBEdit. For any other text file I usually use TextEdit.
Mellel, TextMate, and paper (ah, paper!)
The only virtue of Microsoft Word is its ubiquity. I used to think that Word haters were nuts, but after using Mellel for a major academic project, I have now come to see Word as the Worst Possible Option for Writing on the Mac. I do use Excel pretty often, though, and so I have no plans to rip Office off my machine.
Mellel, TextMate, and paper (ah, paper!)
Agreed - the 'Edit in TextMate' function is fabulous - I use it for any blog post more than a few lines. And the blog constitutes most of my writing these days.
Multiple
TextEdit for the day to day
Multiple
oh, and pico when I'm in Terminal
Mellel
With due respect to Rob for running a great site, this has to be the fruitiest poll ever for not defining what kind of writing.
Mellel
I didn't want to define which kind of writing :) -- I thought it'd be more fun and interesting as an open-ended poll. THat's not to say that a future poll might not be "What's your most-used code-writing tool?"
Mellel
Fair enough.
Mellel
Pages, BBEdit, TextEdit
Nano vs. SubEtha vs. Smultron
nano is handy, when you're always in Terminal... shell script writing, checking email with mutt, and general system stuff.
Safari & Eudora
The vast majority of my writing is done in blogs, wikis, and email. So Safari is home to much of my writing, with Eudora a close second.
TeXShop
I use (a modified version of) TeXShop for my LaTeXing, and SubEthaEdit for programming etc.
Tex-Edit Plus! (not TextEdit)
I still use Tex-Edit Plus, even though the author doesn't seem to be improving it much anymore (new releases still continue to come out once in a while though).
The benefit to the program is that your files will never be locked into a proprietary file format--a problem if you hope your files will be readable in the not-to-distant future. It writes plain vanilla text files (which can be read on any platform if you convert the linefeeds to unix or PC), but it also stores font face and font style somehow, so I can add occasional headings or boldface to the short notes I write or records I keep. For instance, I keep all my password, login, billing, financial notes, recipes, and other lists of things in Tex-Edit documents in various folders. I soured a little on the program after the author changed the way option-arrow moves around a long document to a nonstandard behavior. Scott
Tex-Edit Plus! (not TextEdit)
Yay! Glad to hear there's still another fan out there. Although I have to use Word professionally, Tex-Edit Plus is my web-writing engine. Totally 'scriptable so it integrates with Transmit very nicely. Still free, too!
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Tex-Edit Plus! (not TextEdit)
Tex-Edit gets my vote too. OK, I use TextWrangler for code. And for quick note taking, nothing beats Fishpad. Umm, any other Fishpad users out there?
Tex-Edit Plus! (not TextEdit)
I use Tex-Edit Plus too, for everything. Highly Applescriptable so all kinds of text conversions are possible. Text and window styles are infinitely adjustable.
Do blogging apps count?
Since I blog for a living and a hobby, I do most of my writing in Firefox, Mail and ecto. Yojimbo is a distant 4th.
Do blogging apps count?
i second this query... embarrassingly, lately ive been doing most of my writing with iWeb (on my mac i mean, at work it is MS word on the PC for the thesis). probably not terribly efficient, but simple i guess
gmail mostly
i do most of my writing in gmail (in firefox 2.0), then save it as a draft. from there, i'll either email it somewhere (friends, associates, auto-post address for my blog) or i'll copy'n'paste it into something (typically textedit or textwrangler) for touch ups.
Mostly word
Word at work (corporate demand)
E-mail
The question is wrong. I, and I guess most other people, write at least 75% of all text I/we produce in different e-mail clients.
I find I have so many writing tools...
it's kinda crazy.
Tex-Edit Plus
... the best $10 ever spent on shareware. Most shareware packages fall by the wayside within a year or two, but TE+ has been the one for as long as I can remember (and that's quite a long time!) ...
Eclipse
I work for a Java development company, so most of my time is spent in Eclipse.
Should have included TeXShop
I use TeXShop (front end for LaTeX) for about 99% of my writing.
Should have included TeXShop
Agreed -- TeXShop is far and away my number one app for actual writing. Far behind is TextEdit, followed probably by BBEdit and Pages, in that order. (Although if I could count it as "writing", as someone suggested above, Mail.app might actually take the top place by a mile.) And a lot of my writing actually starts in OmniOutliner Pro, so I suppose that should count as well.
InDesign
I'll tend to prefer writing, editing and designing any document in Adobe InDesign. It's more of a page layout tool but it has excellent tools that I find more useful and faster than Word or TextEdit...plus I know the key commands. Alternatively, I've set TextEdit as my default text/word document opener.
Entourage
I am in email hell. Everything has to be discussed by email...
Not Word
Just about anything except Word! I am very Internet-centric so I write a lot of HTML, etc in BBEdit. I do my own (very rare) word processing in Pages. Sometimes I need to help someone else with a Word document and am always disappointed in how badly Word does everything.
OmniGraffle
I actually spend most of my time making things in OmniGraffle. While it may appear to be just a charting app at first glance, it's actually the best page layout app I've ever used. It's become an invaluable part of my workflow as a teacher -- creating professional-looking worksheets and tests is extremely easy and flexible.
Give it a shot if you haven't already -- I think many of you would be happily surprised with how it works. :)
in OmniOutliner, actually
Not the most obvious choice, but I do most of my drafting in OO before moving it to TexShop downstream when I'm mostly happy with the content and start worrying about looks.
Tex-Edit Plus
I love Tex-Edit Plus. Even if I intend to use the text elsewhere (InDesign for example) I enter it here first. TE+ also offers fantastic AppleScript support making it a great tool for all sorts of text manipulation and reorganization.
Hard to pick just one
I picked BBEdit, but spend almost as much time in NeoOffice (which I use mainly at work). Number 3 would be a straight tie between Nisus Writer Express (which is my preferred WP at home) & InDesign, which is running on my work box all day every day.
Mellel first for me too
45% Mellel (Nice looking stuff to print, major projects)
20% OmniOutliner Pro (checklists, plans) 15% Smultron (lists and drafts) 10% Word (when compatibility matters, or table-intensive) 10% DevonThink Pro (notetaking) under 1% Pages (when layout is most important)
TeXShop
I answered BBEdit because I use it for almost all my coding, but I use TeXShop for formatted documents (unless I am forced to use Word).
TeXShop
TeXShop for almost everything (even not LaTeX), except programming (F90, Matlab) for which is Smultron.
Pagemaker
Had Pagemaker since version 1, learned to use it well. To cheap to buy In Design. Obviously used for writing which will be printed or converted to pdf. If it isn't going to be printed it's not writing.
Microsoft Word
The oldest is still the best.
Latex
Overall it might be a tie between Latex (TeXShop), Matlab and Mail.
Tried Hyperedit?
I've been doing a mess of HTML/XML coding lately, and happened across HYPEREDIT.
Is programming writing?
I interpreted the language of the poll to explicitly refer to natural language and not some programming language. Yet, several answers refer to programming. (Well, I've got to admit that I read the posting first, and that had some more explanation that's missing from the poll question itself.)
text area
Most of my writing is done in some text area from some site or another (like this one), with some (Geko-based) browser or another.
Mail
In my day to day work, over the past 10 years, I've gone from 99% AppleWorks to 98% Mail and 2% Pages for all of my "writing." Writing being defined as proposals, contracts, documentation, etc. Email has become the de-facto standard for all written communication, with the occasional PDF created in Pages thrown in in order to receive a signature.
How do I enter text?
I'm a rotten typist, so I enter most of my text via ViaVoice Speakpad.
LyX
For writing, I use LyX whenever I can.
DEVONthink and Word
Most of my writing is done in DEVONthink and Word.
vi
Simple, can do what one would expect from a text editor:-)
path finder
most of the time path finder's build-in editor, simple & fast.
depends...
on what I'm doing at any given time_
Mail then Stickies, TextEdit or Word
Most of my correspondence is in Mail - sometimes I need to create document and TextEdit is sufficient - Word is the last resort! I hate it, I hate it, I hate Word! Pages is expensive for what it does and I'm not sure I'll use it enough..
Mellel is it
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