Text Editors

I have a confession to make: I’m a text editor / word processor addict. Or something of the sort. I can’t tell you when it all started, but it’s been going on for a while and I’m unable to escape. You might think this is a joke, but let me be clear:

Altogether I have 21 different text editors / word processors installed through out on various equipment. And this number doesn’t include the standard ones that are installed with any OS.

For whatever reason I’m always on the search for the ‘next best thing’ so I’m constantly trying out whatever I find, and I do end up using most of them. Which sounds odd as hell, but I really do cycle through these software for various reasons. Some are better suited to writing screenplays, others are for note taking, lore keeping (worldbuilding), planning, quick and dirty rough drafts, longer form editing, code editing, etc. To sum it all up: they all have different quirks, with varying uses.

I admit, I don’t REALLY need ALL of it, but more than half of that number I can justify. However I’m pretty darn certain that this is not normal and it’s some weirdo mental tick that I simply controls my life in a small way. I wouldn’t call it unhealthy, but there’s definitely some parts of me that kind of worry about being some sort of ‘e-hoarder’. Well I guess no problems until I run out of space, but I literally cannot think of NOT using different software.

I swear, I don’t need an intervention guys, the fact that I just bought a copy of M$ Office 2019 a couple of days ago because it was 77% off during a sale is not grounds to call the grammar police on me.

Jokes aside, I actually do need it for some of it’s editing features and the ability to open modern word documents on my computer without being forced to constantly upload them to google drive. I don’t know about you, but that last part was already a pretty big fucking thing for me as people are incapable of saving files in old .doc formats and expect everyone to have a modern copy of some word processor. Well, now I’m finally part of the damn gang yo, until Microsoft decides to can the whole format again and fuck me over.

And before you ask: yes, I DID remove the shortcuts to google docs. Fuck dealing with file conversions all the damn time.