I know this reply is way late, but it might still be useful to anyone else asking themselves this same question. The best writing tool depends on what you're trying to write -- fiction or non-fiction...

I guess I'm pretty late in adding my 2 cents, but here it is anyway. MS Word (and its free, open source counterpart, Open Office) are word processors that let you do both writing AND formatting. The...

heh. For a long time I, too, vacillated about what to do with these endless notes-to-myself. I can't say I have the problem licked. My solution involves a PDA and a netbook. (Which gets used depen...

My list for tracking notes and ideas: Keynote I use this to capture my thoughts and ideas for a specific writing project. Usually this is just a simple collection of jotted down ideas, or a sort of...

Thanks for the new icons! I love Keynote, and use it constantly both for private hobbies and for work. I don't mind that it looks "old fashioned", but decided to give the spiffy new icons a try anyw...

I've been poking around looking at PIMs and note taking software lately. (It's a good way to procrastinate since it feels like I'm doing something useful.) I haven't seen anything particularly handy...