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Andrew J McKiernan ([personal profile] andrewmck) wrote2008-04-12 10:50 am
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Portable writing alternatives

Lately, I've been finding myself away from home and with the time to write. I don't have a laptop, so that sort of portability is out for me and I'm looking at other alternatives.

Probably the most obvious choice is GoogleDocs (http://docs.google.com), or a similar web-based word processor. My question is - is anyone else out there using GoogleDocs, or another web-based processor? And, how successful (or unsuccessful) has that been for you?
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[identity profile] chrisbarnes.livejournal.com 2008-04-12 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
I can't help re web-based word processors, but if you're after a cheap very portable laptop, quite a few people are singing praises to the Asus Eee mini-notebook PC lately. $500. Keyboard's very small so mightn't suit if you're a touch typist, but is apparently OK for two-finger typing.

[identity profile] girliejones.livejournal.com 2008-04-12 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
we use them a lot for all our projects, mostly spreadsheets but sometimes people send me word docs that way. Really really really useful for coworking on documents and also for accessing whereever you are.

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2008-04-12 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
a fat steno pad and a couple of pens works well too, and when you transcribe you also rewrite.
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