{"id":95,"date":"2018-07-10T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:03:52","slug":"writing-platform-reviews-libre-office-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Writing Platform Reviews – Libre Office – Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be up front here: I’ve been a huge fan of Libre Office<\/a> since its early days in the late 90s when it was called Star Office and then Open Office.\u00a0 Over the versions and years, the application constantly improved, and today is a powerful suite of tools which is amazingly still free.<\/p>\n

Nearly everything I’ve written has been in these apps, and I don’t think its usefulness will diminish any time soon.\u00a0 Any time I send something our to try and publish, it first passes through this application.<\/p>\n

The platform, however, is showing its age.\u00a0 Without copying the files to dropbox or Google drive, it is quite difficult to access my writing on my phone.\u00a0 I was increasingly limited to my laptop, worrying if the hard drive was about to blow without me doing a frequent backup.\u00a0 Very little could be done on my phone despite the valiant efforts of the Libre Office Mobile App development team.<\/p>\n

In addition, I have increasingly finding that version control on these files is key.\u00a0 Folders on my laptop are stuffed with copies of files titled “second draft”, timestamped, or with alternate names when I came up with a better title.\u00a0 Libre Office was increasingly a nice tool, and not an entire platform.<\/p>\n

I could easily blame my natural disorganisation for this.\u00a0 I know of many authors who use such a platform to write, and have great success with it.\u00a0 For me, however, I found I was frequently losing ideas and drafts in the increasingly-large folders I was generating for each writing project.\u00a0 In order for it to work, I would need to develop a very consistent and rigorous routine.\u00a0 After years of trying, I finally came to the conclusion that such a thing wasn’t going to happen with me as I’m always drawn to trying different methods, and modifying my approach as I go.\u00a0 The result is that eventually my files become a disorganised mess no matter how much I try.<\/p>\n

In the end, LibreOffice is quickly becomming the tool that I use to put the final touches on something before I send it off to a publisher.\u00a0 In that way, LibreOffice is key to my writing process, but not the entire journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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