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Cory Doctorow wrote a great article called Writing in the Age of Distraction In it he says he writes using a text editor. 2 years ago I used a txt editor called Edsharp to write my nanowrimo novel. This year I used Jarte and wote in rtf format. I am shying away from Edsharp because it uses the Microsoft Word spellchecker and I want to be independent of Office. CD's oint is that the application itself is distracting. I quite agree. In a straight forward text editor I can just write. I figure rtf is about as universal as txt and I can always convert rtf to txt or even set Jarte to format in txt. In fact, I have Jarte as my default word processor for txt, rtf and doc files. Very quick. Very easy to use and its free and screen reader friendly.