>>620 (OP) Uhhhh Wordpad?

>>625 Wordpad sucks, notepad is the superior choice.

>>629 Use Notepad++ Yes it is made by a weird leftist, but it is honestly one of the best programs to keep track of notes

>>632 >Yes it is made by a weird leftist To be fair that's true of most tech related stuff.

>>636 Yeah, but he's genuinely weird even by commie standards for inserting his politics in the patch notes. Still though, it's objectively the best note-taking tool on the market and the coding plugins are pretty nifty.

Why are any of these programs better? I use Word over Notepad because I can do some basic formatting, but I don't need anything beyond that for writing prose. The only things I've found that seem more useful are programs that make it easier to automatically format scripts, plays/screenplays, etc.. But those are for specific uses. What makes Notepad++ or Scrivener more useful for writing things other than notes?

I’ve been using my notes app and google docs. Convenience over everything as long as it is functional.

>>620 (OP) I use novelWriter and its fine

>>647 I use Scrivener and it's awesome. You can make independent notes per chapter, there's room to storyboard, you can do so much. My absolute favorite feature is that you can write chapters and drag them around. I plan a skeleton plot then just kinda connect the dots as I grow a novel, so it's really helpful to be able to see the superstructure of the plot as it develops. Relevant notes pop up in the chapter where I need them, and I keep a whole separate section with character details, motivations, relationships, etc. It's so good at keeping everything organized, which is a challenge while growing a novel. It's leaps and bounds better than using a simple word processor, and you won't really understand until you use it why that is. I've only been using it for my last six books, but it's changed the way I write and plot. I'm sure I use it in a very simple way, and that there's much more you can do, but it's transformed my workflow. Oh, and if you do nanowrimo, it has built in integration that syncs with their website and keeps you on track for your monthly wordcount, but now that nano is dead you'll be on your own, but that was cool. Honestly just get Scrivener and watch a tutorial on it. It's fucking amazing.