My wife reckons I’ve got rocks in my head and a hole in my wallet. She was looking at my Applications folder with some bewilderment (she’s still with Dark Side of the fOrSe and the idea of sticking all apps in a logical place seemed alien to her) and said I was crazy because of the amount of word processors I have bought and paid for. Naturally I replied that they’re tools of the trade and while I admit there’s some overlap in what I’ve got, I do find myself using different tools for different tasks.
I’ve got (all bought and paid for where applicable)
Scrivener: Drafting just about anything of substance.
Voodoo Pad: Sci-Fi / Fantasy world-building scratch pad.
Pages 08: Small but fancy layouts, resumes and letters.
Word 2004: Groan! Education Licence left over from my masters degree.
Mellel: Technical documents for print (i’m a pro technical author).
Nisus Writer Pro: Word replacement, bulk editing of RTF files.
Open Office 3: Hopefully will replace Neo Office.
Neo Office: Word replacement for working on Doc files.
Bean: Quick short drafts.
Kword: Technical documents, rarely use it now that I have Mellel
Text Edit: General note taking.
I haven’t even included my layout and coding programs, or what’s on my Window’s partition . So in the interest of marital harmony is this a bit excessive or do you guys have something similar?