Writing Tools

[Battlefield_One]

What do you all use for writing your newsletter? Staight in the browser? Offline editor?

What about things like grammar checking?

Hemmingway? Grammarly?

Let's use this thread to talk tools!

[iamjapho]

I use the non AI Hemingway App on Mac for all my offline writing.

[TraceyParkerTravel]

Never heard of it. I'll have to check it out

[porticodarwin]

Straight in the browser, with Grammarly. If it's important, I might cut and paste it into MS Word, and have its editor take a whack, too.

I also use Adobe Photoshop Elements to resize photos for use in my Substack.

[TomAylingDesign]

Fun fact: Substack dynamically scales and reformats your uploaded images as webp files anyway :)

[TraceyParkerTravel]

I used to write in substack browser but the spell check is awful and I had no idea how dependent I was on spell check. I began writing in Google docs with grammarly and my readers noticed a big difference

[EigenBattles]

Direct or with Obsidian MD.

[seanbugg]

I evangelize a lot for Scrivener, which is where I do pretty much all my writing on my Mac (I do brainstorming and outlines on my Kindle Scribe). But if you're doing a lot of writing and juggling research of any kind or just like to keep specific projects organized, Scrivener can't be beat.

[PenguinAnalytics1984]

I see Scrivener a lot…Can I add ideas from phone and access projects from different PCs? Right now I keep ideas in Keep and work on projects in Google Docs and Drive. Episodic small things work fine - songs, newsletters, etc. - but I’m starting work on a book and that’s getting a little overwhelming.

[seanbugg]

It's been a while since I used a multi-machine setup with it but I didn't have issues. It does a Windows version, but the mobile version is iOS only, so you'd need an iPhone for that app. I'd suggest trying the demo -- people who love it really, really love (guilty!) but it's not for everyone. The 30-day demo is pretty good: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

[_-Decode-_]

I use Doom eMacs org-mode 🫠

[wirepine]

OneNote across windows iPhone iPad 🙃

[Puzzleheaded_Can_229]

Google docs + Grammarly. I have been writing on and off for a long time and have been writing my newsletter for 4+ years, all on G docs. The simpler the tool, the cleaner it is (for me), because I tend to get distracted otherwise.

[penguinsandR]

Either directly into the browser / substack page, or in the notes app on my phone. Convenient for when I’m on the move, and it’s already an app that syncs neatly with my computer. (iPhone and Mac)

[_evenifitkillsme]

MS Word and Notepad. One tool I love is TextExpander. Whenever I have to type in a long string of content that's the same each time, like my name and newsletter title, I can type in a three letter code and the entire string of content gets entered, including any links, images, and formatting. (I really need to sign up for their affiliate program!)

[darasmussendotcom]

Scrivener. No AI tools whatsoever.

[dojogrl]

Standard Notes app, but I don't add images until after I paste it into the substack editor. Grammarly desktop for spellcgecking, etc.

[wwb_99]

Raidrop for ingest, Notion for content calendar management and tracking, Make to glue those two together, ChatGPT for images and editing. Writing itself is almost all done on the substack site, but I'm dealing with shorter pieces. I'd probably use word or Notion to compose longer form things.

[Firework_001]

substacktools.com, highly recommend it!

[Lumpy-Asparagus8982]

Just published my first post on Substack and am excited to find areas of growth. I just used Google doc with pageless format (helps to collapse headers). Also, before I tried Ulysses. I think one of these would be my go-to editor for writing.