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qrbLPHiKpiux on June 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Future of the Word Processor (2016)

Focus on the text first -> plain text, Markdown.

Then copy/paste into word, or preferably something else for formatting.

Too many distractions in a modern word processor.

emodendroket on June 9, 2017 [–]

"Distractions" of course meaning "features I, personally, have not had occasion to use" in this case.

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