looking for something Free to type in, specifically on desktop

[win10user10]

what have you used within the last year that you would suggest?

- no gdocs, no word, no evernote

 

* has to be free

(but if it isn't, there needs to be examples of exactly in what way the suggestion is helpful is you)

* has to have been updated or made better within the last 6 month

 

what do i currently use?

onenote (but moving away from it)


if you are familiar with, and have multiple suggestions

1. what would each be good for?

2. and what does it do exactly that is good for that?


also looking for something free that checks writing style

also something free that checks for conciseness of your writing

- this can be part of the software

- or a separate software, it doesnt really matter


any other absolute needs besides just free + updated?

has colors for fonts is important

- the software that doesnt have color would be for different uses

- & the software that with color would be for different uses

so the suggestion doesnt need to have color

[Nicnac]

open office, libre office

[LogicalDrm]

For starters, you don't get amazing spell check for free. Get past that and you have LibreOffice (which atm has their site down).

[win10user10]

heard both open libre were basically dead inactive

 

no significant progress from those

 

anyone have good suggestions?

[Willowwizard]

16 hours ago, win10user10 said:

heard both open libre were basically dead inactive

 

no significant progress from those

 

anyone have good suggestions?

LibreOffice is not dead, in fact, it's just recently received a big update.

[LogicalDrm]

21 hours ago, win10user10 said:

heard both open libre were basically dead inactive

 

no significant progress from those

 

anyone have good suggestions?

What do you actually expect? If it works, no reason to break it. MS Office receives one "update" yearly and they make you pay full amount for it.

[win10user10]

let's see --

"OpenOffice is as good as dead atm. LibreOffice, to date, as far as I can tell, mostly focused on fixing the mistakes from OpenOffice days" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563902

"OpenOffice is mostly abandoned and has had issues even marshaling the resources.." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16266334

"Technically, LibreOffice is playing catchup with Win Office." - https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/libreoffice-6-review.html


for libre at least,

tho sadly it seems to be a better release than the past, which means now i need to look into and test it

it has release notes changelog w/e you wanna call it -- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0

so i can see what can do, this is a plus for sure

so looks like it'll need to downloaded

if not guess will have to go evernote or i dunno?


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no real conclusive answers on any good style checkers existing in current day society tho,

and that's a sad thing, it's 2018 already

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, win10user10 said:

let's see --

"OpenOffice is as good as dead atm. LibreOffice, to date, as far as I can tell, mostly focused on fixing the mistakes from OpenOffice days" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563902

"OpenOffice is mostly abandoned and has had issues even marshaling the resources.." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16266334

"Technically, LibreOffice is playing catchup with Win Office." - https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/libreoffice-6-review.html


for libre at least,

tho sadly it seems to be a better release than the past, which means now i need to look into and test it

it has release notes changelog w/e you wanna call it -- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0

so i can see what can do, this is a plus for sure

so looks like it'll need to downloaded

if not guess will have to go evernote or i dunno?


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no real conclusive answers on any good style checkers existing in current day society tho,

and that's a sad thing, it's 2018 already

I'm not really sure what else to offer you then, since nothing on the market seems to work. Not attacking you at all though as I completely understand your pain in finding a program that perfectly suits your needs, much like how it's impossible to find an OS that properly supports DPI scaling years after 4K became affordable. Anywho, the only other office-like writing program I can suggest is WordPerfect, and even then I'd rather use an ancient 2006 version of Open Office (back when it was slow and crash prone) over that because ... Corel Software is just absolutely no for me.

 

To further look into what you really want, can you tell us why Microsoft Office, or Google Docs, or LibreOffice specifically don't work for you? And I mean reasons from your own mind, not news articles trying to justify why one is better than another to get more affiliate sales through tracking links to the product they think is best. What don't you like about the current offerings? Is there anything you do like about them? What features exactly need to change to make them work for you?

[LogicalDrm]

8 hours ago, win10user10 said:

no real conclusive answers on any good style checkers existing in current day society tho,

and that's a sad thing, it's 2018 already

I don't understand what you mean by "style checker"? Grammar checker? Or something else? AFAIK there isn't anything automated for checking writing style or improving it to be suitable for something (business style, academic style, marketing style etc.). You need actual person to read it. For service like that I haven't had any use. I've used personal contacts to proof read my thesis and other academic works. And my superiors to read any reports made for work.

 

Universities and other higher education institutes use special software which compares submitted works to find forgery and plagiarism. The one used in here is TurnItIn. It seems to have tutoring software called WriteCheck. And if that indeed is what you are looking for, there's Grammarly. Though I would recommend taking a real course on writing to improve overall rather than do it in paper basis. Even something like Lynda.com online course could do it.