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I don't use Word or Docs anymore—this open-source writing app beats both of them

LibreOffice Writer gives me everything I need from Word and Docs without subscriptions, accounts, or cloud lock-in.
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I replaced Microsoft Word with a self-hosted, open-source alternative

Microsoft Word is ubiquitous in the professional world, and its widespread support and capabilities have lead to it becoming one of the most popular word processors today. However, after I switched my ...
New York Magazine

These Mobile Word Processors Let Me Write Without Any Distractions

As someone with ADHD who writes for a living, I need to block out as many distractions as possible when I’m writing. I usually accomplish that by turning off Wi-Fi on my iPad, leaving my phone in ...
The Scientist

Powerful Plus to a Word Processor

Technical Support Software Inc. 72 Kent Street Brookline, MA 02146 (617) 734-4130 Price: $475 Requirements:128K RAM, DOS 2.0 or later, color or monochrome graphics board Exact is better described as a ...
Hackaday

Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields A Beast

The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and digital documents are so ...
TweakTown

Microsoft is retiring WordPad, the free word processor that first debuted in Windows 95

Microsoft has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...
Computerworld

The web and the word processor

ITworld.com – In one form or another, I do words for a living. I spend part of my time writing words (as I am doing right now). I also spend part of my time writing complex sets of words (known as ...