I didn’t expect a tiny open-source Windows app to make such a difference, but this one has saved me hours of typing every week.

I write for a living, so I spend 6–8 hours every day staring at my screen while typing away. Oftentimes, this number gets ...

Writing is a very personal practice, and as a result you have a million writing-focused apps to choose from. From distraction-free apps that take up your whole screen to feature-packed mainstays like ...

I’ve long been a fan of plain text for everything from notes to general writing, but it wasn’t until recently that I found my holy grail: An app that could sync with multiple devices and handle ...

Starting to write, whether it’s a novel or a blog post, can be daunting even for experienced authors. The fear of penning thoughts that don’t immediately make sense or stringing together ...

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Most word processing apps fit a standard formula in 2020: a white rectangle to type into, a toolbar with way too many formatting options, and maybe some extended mail-merge or citation features. It’s ...

Your Android phone can become a powerful writing tool with the right setup. Students no longer need laptops to create quality content. Writing on a mobile device has come a long way from just taking ...

If you use a Mac, you work with text. Your documents may be short (tweets and iMessages) or long (reports, stories, or even novels), but you need an app to handle that text. Depending on the type of ...

I love Evernote, but it’s mainly become a second brain for storing little scraps of paper, reference photos of household items bought too infrequently to remember, or documents that hit the shredder ...