Looking for the perfect word processor
A long time ago when I owned an Atari ST, I considered the mighty Protext my favourite word processor. Every so often I do a search to see what happened to it, thinking it might one day move into Freeware territory. And lo, on my last search it has. And so I eagerly downloaded it and tried it.
Sadly it didn’t seem as fast and funky as I remembered, but it does work well on my EEE - which I want to run it on.
And then I stumbled upon Q10.
Q10 has a really small executable that runs really quickly and feels nice and simple (F1 brings up all the shortcut keys you will ever need).
Things I really like about Q10:
- If I write with headphones on, then I can switch on the typewriter sounds. Strange but it feels really satisfying to crank out a few pages of pulp action with typewriter sounds.
- Notes - if I start a sentence or paragraph with “..” then I can get a list of all my notes and flesh out my stories quickly in any order - great.
- SpellChecker - obviously
- Fast word and page counts
- Full screen so no distractions.
I currently really enjoy writing on my EEE with Q10 - try it out for yourself.
