😠why did I write this stupid book on google docs man. What the hell was I thinking! Never using this garbage again once I'm done. I'm stuck in formatting hell right now
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So that’s why the academic papers are written with specialized software
I'd say that academic papers are fine to write with something like google docs. It just really really sucks if you're writing a book.
Do you know of better alternatives? I've definitely had issues with GDocs myself but haven't actually researched alternatives
I honestly don't even know. I've used cryptpad before for other stuff which is open source, but probably wouldn't be good for writing a book. I guess you could use libre office.
But the big problem for me is that I have 5 kids and they never leave me alone so I rarely get time on my laptop, so I had to write most of this on my phone. Google docs was the quick and easy fix for that since there's a mobile app.