What application or system do you use to deal with various drafts of that book you're writing? I can't keep everything as a single Word document.
Use something like logseq or obsidian. It'll be easier to write and manage across multiple stuff.
>>25131134Write in plain-text or markdown, and use git for revision control.
latex>>25131179 git is good subvestion too
>>25131134I write the first draft in wordpad because it has minimum interference with my flow. Then I use Scrivener to clean up the vomit draft and mold it into an actual story. I used AI to check spelling and grammar, but a word of warning. Never ever let the AI interfere with any of your story beats or any of your prose. It's absolute mongoloid garbage and will ruin your writing voice 101 times out of 100. Consider AI a demon that you can coax into doing labour for you, but never let it influence anything of what you want to say. Not even for feedback. It will gently and inconspicuously ease you into a grey sludge of "everything", and all of your unique writing voice will transform into this lukewarm nothing-voice, hollow and dead.
I have a very basic editor I threw together in Tcl/Tk, I have full access to the Tcl interpreter from it so I just edit the editor to what ever my needs are at that moment. Decide I want to compare the various revisions of a part, scroll them all together and display the notes for each, no problem, takes 30 seconds and I don't even have to restart, type a few lines, hit enter and there are all my revisions with their notes and a single scrollbar working them all together. Decide this change will be handy to keep around, singe command will let me save that bit of code so I can load it up anytime I want. The basic editor has an outline view on the left, the text in the middle and notes on the right, tabs across the top for revisions. Outline view lets me jump quickly to anywhere I want, double click on a word or ctrl-enter will pull up the notes for that word in the right hand pane or create a new note for that word if it does not have a note yet. Most of the time it gets tweaked quite a bit early on to suit the needs of the project and generally gets a fairly big tweak when I finish drafting and move onto rewriting and revising so the information I need is always what is displayed and it is displayed in the best possibly way. My one and only programming success, only thing I have even gotten to a usable state.
