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Reminder: LibreOffice is a more than viable alternative.
Or even better, stop doing paper format documents on your computer. It creates data silos and often isn’t really accessible either. Who (except maybe governments) does still print stuff?
Organize your data relational. Tools like NocoDB or Baserow let you do this pretty easily and in a privacy friendly manner (self hosted).
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Disgusting
The key attribute of a word processor isn’t that “it prints”, it’s that it styles and lays out written material with tooling/structure features across the range of users - from “click B for bold” to “Fortune 500 annual report” or “Doctoral Dissertation”.
Yeah it does everything… but almost nothing well.
We can have different opinions here, but I find “documentization” of data in this day and age not appropriate anymore.
oh, there are certainly better fits than Word and it’s clones for different tasks.
but let’s say you need to write a 50 to 100 page narrative document structured into chapters/sections, with illustrations. Curious about your approach to that
EDIT: lets also say you’re not in CS or academia and emacs/TeX are out.
Markdown. Obsidian, Logseq, or even Notion or Coda.
Markdown is plain and easily parsable by pretty much anything.
Microsoft is continuing to lose the plot, and it makes me happy to not use any of their services, save a forced Microsoft Account email for my Xbox. I use Linux and Libreoffice already, along with Filen for the few things that I might need a cloud for. If only people would just drop their services, and take a look at open source…Microsoft needs to pay the price for compromising the privacy of their users.
