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I used to use WordPad as an easy and simple alternative to more complex editors like Word and OpenOffice, but that was years ago and now it seems to have just as many functions as Word did when I abandoned it.
I love Scrivener for keeping track of complex projects. I used to use CeltX and yWriter and CueCards for that, but nowadays it's pretty much all Scrivener for me. I even used it as a standard text editor (for simple texts) for a while, but it's actually a little too heavy for that. Even in full-screen mode, the possibilities it offers sometimes distract me fron writing. So now I've re-installed Q10, a very simple blot-out-your-whole-screen text editor that's really just for typing. Because I sometimes need something simple, un-distracting to drop notes into.
As for exporting into POD and ebook formats, Scrivener offers some neat ebook-ready options but I wouldn't trust it for print jobs just yet. For those, I alternate between an old copy of InDesign (mostly when I'm working with collaborators bvecause they all have it) and Scribus when the project allows it. Some printers frown upon Scribus because its color management takes some setting up and the kind of people who gravitate towards Scribus over InDesign tend to not know about these things, but once you've directed it to the right profiles it works just fine.
I love Scrivener for keeping track of complex projects. I used to use CeltX and yWriter and CueCards for that, but nowadays it's pretty much all Scrivener for me. I even used it as a standard text editor (for simple texts) for a while, but it's actually a little too heavy for that. Even in full-screen mode, the possibilities it offers sometimes distract me fron writing. So now I've re-installed Q10, a very simple blot-out-your-whole-screen text editor that's really just for typing. Because I sometimes need something simple, un-distracting to drop notes into.
As for exporting into POD and ebook formats, Scrivener offers some neat ebook-ready options but I wouldn't trust it for print jobs just yet. For those, I alternate between an old copy of InDesign (mostly when I'm working with collaborators bvecause they all have it) and Scribus when the project allows it. Some printers frown upon Scribus because its color management takes some setting up and the kind of people who gravitate towards Scribus over InDesign tend to not know about these things, but once you've directed it to the right profiles it works just fine.