

Stripe is a good product with good UI for payment processing. AdGuard just chugs away in the background and is quite good for my sanity.įastmail is pleasant to use and doesn’t seem to cause me any issues.

iTerm has been fading into the background and not bothering me for years. I’d say VSCode is surprisingly good it has problems but it’s something that seems like it can’t possibly function as well as it does so it’s notable for that at least. PostgreSQL and sqlite are remarkable pieces of software. But for something long form, like a novel, where I need to maintain notes and references, I haven’t encountered anything as good as scrivener.Įven though I think our industry and its products are generally a wasteland, I was surprised to be able to come up with quite a few examples of great software when I started thinking about it. I maintain a laptop from the late 90s that dual boots NetBSD/FreeDOS and often write in WordStar on it. To use an analogy: novelWriter is like Kate, usable and somewhat extendable, whereas Scrivener is like IntelliJ, batteries and even a UPS included.ĭon’t get me wrong, I like more minimalist setups occasionally.
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In Scrivener, I can drag and drop a web page or PDF into my project, and it’ll be archived there in full as something I can refer back to and annotate. It also didn’t have the same support for notes/supporting documents that scrivener does. Last time I used novelWriter, HiDPI support was lacking on macOS (Scrivener isn’t the only thing tying me to it unfortunately), and font-rendering was piss-poor (not a reflection on the authors of the novelWriter, it seemed to be related to HiDPI support and GTK+, which… yeah… there’s a reason I use KDE Plasma/QT on Linux). I’ve tried it (and manuskript, another similar tool), but there’s really no comparison at the moment.
