Xuelder

Indie Game/Narrative Designer

Tech Warlock

Weird dude who makes weird things.

Part of the Swamp, Part of the Krewe


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xuelder.itch.io/

mammonmachine
@mammonmachine

There are 100000 million apps for note taking and organization, but I find them pretty annoying for long-form writing which is the other half of what I do. Writing a proposal in Notion is fine; writing a script is unbearable. I was a HUGE scrivener believer and used it instrumentally in several projects, but the more directly I work in-engine the less useful it becomes.

For that reason, I've basically just been writing scripts in text editors (visual studio code, sublime text) which are fairly necessary due to the markup required but not like, the most pleasant experience. The other alternative, of course, is writing directly in google sheets, which is hell itself and while an industry-wide practice, is hell on earth.

Anyone have any recommendations for a text editor they feel like they can write prose in, or I guess, a writing app that lets you write in Ink, Yarn, or whatever custom markup you're using? Or do you just live in hell? I'd love to know that too.


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in reply to @mammonmachine's post:

unfortunately it was pure vs code for gitcl. but I dream of taking half a year off to just actually make a god damned real editor that fulfills this criteria because I don't know anything better and I KNOW it would save time in the long run