As a freelance journalist (and occasional business writer) I have clients who insist on Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Both are awful in different ways.

Most of the time I write everything in a Markdown editor then save or copy and paste into a Word or Google Docs file. It is about ten times more efficient.

Markdown is, essentially, a plain text editor with a few extra commands. I’d argue that discovering Markdown was behind my second biggest every productivity leap. The first leap was when I became so frustrated with Windows 8 that I bought a MacBook, possibly the smartest investment a writer could ever make.