The $495 package, developed by New York City-headquartered Dragonfly Software, runs on the IBM-PC and compatible computers. In many ways it takes after another word-processing program, XyWrite, a ...

You can make detailed notes on parts or all of your Microsoft Word documents with Evernote. You may want to do this to highlight paragraphs that need a bit more work, or make a catalog of all the ...

textedit is too limited, MS Word is a fucking labyrinth. I'm a professional writer and I want something that's really good for actual writing and has a nice "gallery" of my existing projects, the way ...

Writer online word processor, with a look mimicking DOS-based text editors running on a green-phosphor display, makes it easy to create and return to a text file, with no sign-in. Dennis O'Reilly ...

For anyone serious about privacy and streamlining their digital toolkit, HedgeDoc is the clear winner. So what are you ...

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Note takers, take note. A new breed of software is taking the humble word processor out of the age of the typewriter and ushering it into the age of the Internet. These new "note taking" programs go ...

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

A software start-up called Virtual Ubiquity is joining the ranks of entrepreneurs convinced they can make a better online word processor. Today, Web-based text editors are typically written using a ...

If you’re looking for a better alternative to Word, it’s time to join the countless writers, professionals and students in favor of Scrivener 2. This powerful word processor and project management app ...