Word is definitely industry standard. Most editors use it. Several indie publishing auto-conversion tools work from it as well. Formatting tools are generally happy to start with a doc file. And yep, you can find converters to go to and from doc files. That is a huge factor in choosing it.

I find Word a little cumbersome once I get to manuscript length, but it does what we need it to.

I was surprised to find that Evernote has a trash can that holds anything you accidentally delete. As long as it can back up to the cloud, you shouldn't lose anything even if you lose a hard drive. BUT...it has changed a LOT in the last year or two. They've reworked it completely.

I love seeing the tools and the methods different writers use. I think the variety encourages new writers.

I don't like Google Docs for a variety of reasons, and I find it annoying when it pings on every device I have. Someone once attached me to a document without telling me, and it was the worst. I try to avoid it, but sometimes, it is useful.

I tried Evernote once or twice. I think I lost something on it on my last laptop.

Someone once sent me some kind of Apple-only doc, possibly Storyist, and because it was late when I went to work on the edit, I couldn't ask for the Word conversion. It should have been sent in Word. But I managed to find a way to convert it after a deep dive online.

denise

I think we are so fortunate to have such portability in our tools these days. You should also be able to grab bits and pieces that you save into Evernote and put them into Scrivener if that's your tool of choice as well. Enjoy!

Happy to share. I'm crazy in love with Evernote. LOL

Cool! Thanks so much for the information!

It was a complete surprise to me that I could actually write in it! There's a trick if you want to export an entire novel at once. Get your notes in order and selected, but DON'T merge them!! Export them as 1 HTML document...which creates this big long thing that opens in your browser. Then you open it, select all, copy, and then paste it into Word. From there...it's all formatting. They come through surprisingly well. Notes also convert well to other online spaces as well, because when you just copy/paste from within Evernote, there is no pesky formatting to mess things up! Evernote as a company has been doing a LOT of upgrades over the last year, with more to come.