Google Docs
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“I do all my writing in Google Docs, since I can't seem to find an equivalently-featured and lightweight rich text editor for Linux.”
blackle.mori Interview · via Uses This 
“For software, I use a lot of Google Docs, because much of my work consists of research, high level design outlines, detailed feedback for animations and more.”
Alice Ruppert Interview, Game developer, equestrianism consultant · via Uses This 
“I use Google Docs to collaboratively edit with authors throughout the structural and copy editing stages.”
Tess Cullity Interview, Publisher (Slingshot Books) · via Uses This 
“Google Docs and Google tabs compete for space on multiple email accounts.”
Dr. Psyche Interview, Culinary historian, writer · via Uses This 
“For sharing documents and for editing humor pieces and students’ work, I use Google Docs and am not at peace with it.”
Elissa Bassist Interview, Editor, writer · via Uses This 
“I use Google Docs for about 90% of my work.”
Grant Howitt Interview, RPG designer (Rowan, Rook and Decard) · via Uses This 
“If I need to collaborate, write, or edit with someone else, I'll usually bring my text into Google Docs.”
Thursday Bram Interview, Writer · via Uses This 
“As a writer, I do almost everything out of Google Docs.”
Ginny Hogan Interview, Comedian, writer · via Uses This 
“When notes graduate to a draft, they are migrated to Google Docs - which also acts as a version control system and distribution platform for drafts of my written work.”
Jess Levine Interview, Writer, musician, game designer · via Uses This 
“Google Docs for all of our communal files”
Natalie Delaney-John Interview, Taxidermist · via Uses This 
“For my writing I just use Google Docs.”
Keelin Gorlewski Interview, Illustrator, cartoonist · via Uses This 

“I used Google Docs to write my tabletop RPG TRIAL and my forthcoming tabletop RPG Tomorrow on Revelation III.”
Dominique Dickey Interview, Writer, editor · via Uses This 
“All other writing is in Google Docs.”
Ninian Doff Interview, Writer, music director · via Uses This 
“Then I have another side project with its own calendar, Slack, and set of Gdocs and Office 365 tabs (that one's a mixed, group project).”
Cyd Harrell Interview, Civic technology consultant · via Uses This 
“Occasionally this will be done in Google Docs, but it just doesn't work as a like-for-like replacement.”
Kylie Maslen Interview, Writer, critic · via Uses This 
“It is way less daunting than opening a fresh, blank, Google Doc.”
Andrea Bell Interview, Illustrator, comic artist · via Uses This 
“I write everything in Google Docs.”
Elisabeth Fosslien Interview, Illustrator · via Uses This 
“I do all my writing in Google Docs.”
Jordan Erica Webber Interview, Presenter, podcaster · via Uses This 
“I do almost all my work in Google Docs.”
Laura Michet Interview, Game writer, editor · via Uses This 
“Lately I've been using Google Docs more and more but I don't like relying on the cloud one bit.”
Justine Haupt Interview, Science associate · via Uses This 
“I keep various seasonal journals in Google Docs - tracking my goals and progress for firewood management, orchard management, and maple syrup production.”
Zach Beane Interview, Developer (Common Lisp, Quicklisp) · via Uses This 
“I write scripts in Google Docs.”
Annie Minoff Interview, Producer (The Journal) · via Uses This 
“I use Google Docs to keep track of ideas, because I can access it on my phone from wherever.”
Elizabeth Hargrave Interview, Board game designer · via Uses This 
“I am always interested to know how other people do theirs, but I always revert back to a simple Google Doc titled "To Do" that I can rewrite and restructure ad hoc.”
Jordan B. L. Smith Interview, Researcher, music information retrieval · via Uses This 

“I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.”
Audrey Watters Interview, Writer (Hack Education) · via Uses This 
“Other than that, I use Google Docs for literally everything.”
Jill Twiss Interview, Senior Writer (Last Week Tonight With John Oliver) · via Uses This 
“Most of my writing happens in Google Docs.”
Olivia Kingsley Interview, Writer, performer, director · via Uses This 
“Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS.”
Felix Salmon Interview, Chief financial correspondent (Axios) · via Uses This 
“I write most things, including podcast notes and fiction, on Google Docs, though I'm always on a futile search for The Perfect Minimal Word Processor.”
Molly Mary O'Brien Interview, Video producer, writer · via Uses This 
“I mostly live in Google Docs.”
Darcie Wilder Interview, Writer · via Uses This 
“Anything plan-ey, or collaborative, I'll write in Google Docs, then share it with other ~ stakeholders ~, then discuss it, then never open it again.”
Adam Roberts Interview, Writer, newsletter producer (SitePoint) · via Uses This 
“If a document has a lot of text, requires a lot of collaboration and feedback, or is otherwise too cumbersome to be in Trello, I use Google Docs and link those docs to any relevant Trello cards.”
John Murphy Interview, Game designer (Young Horses) · via Uses This 
“Google Docs (on phone and on desktop).”
Lam Thuy Vo Interview, Data reporter (BuzzFeed News) · via Uses This 
“Editors and people I collaborate with love to use Google Docs, and luckily it's got a lot better over the last few years.”
Tim Maughan Interview, Writer, journalist · via Uses This 

“If I need to start something I know I won't finish before dinner I write it in Google Docs so that I can open it at home or on my phone.”
Matt Fitzgerald Interview, Preacher, essayist, podcast host · via Uses This 
“When I want someone to review my writing, I use Google Docs.”
Julia Evans Interview, Developer (Stripe), cartoonist, zine maker · via Uses This 
“Google Docs and Sheets for planning and sharing.”
Zahra Zainal Interview, Illustrator, graphic recorder · via Uses This 

“I try to get all my ideas down in Google Docs so I've got it on all my devices because I end up working all over the place.”
Matt Lubchansky Interview, Cartoonist (Please Listen to Me) · via Uses This 
“We use Google Docs and Spreadsheets to store and share story pitches, lore and game design.”
Olivia Wood Interview, Narrative editor, writer, developer (Failbetter Games) · via Uses This 
“Instagram and Google Docs -- I'm a modern woman.”
Mari Andrew Interview, Illustrator, writer · via Uses This 
“We keep all the important info about contacts, finances, and that kind of thing on Google Docs.”
Jewel Loree Interview, Data analyst (Tableau), bass player (Golden Idols) · via Uses This 
“Virtually everyone at Heartflow is a heavy Google Docs user for collaboration and tracking of progress, myself included.”
Kelly Townsend Jennings Interview, Process engineer (HeartFlow) · via Uses This 

“Sometimes collaborators want to use Google Docs, because it allows multiple people to work simultaneously.”
Vili Lehdonvirta Interview, Economic sociologist · via Uses This 
“Something now pretty common thanks to Google Docs and virtually unheard of outside of academia back when we started.”
Martin Pittenauer Interview, Co-founder (TheCodingMonkeys) · via Uses This 
“When I'm writing I just use Google Docs on whatever computer I happen to be working at.”
Kathleen De Vere Interview, Actor, writer, video editor, illustrator (LoadingReadyRun) · via Uses This 
“Then I paste the formatted output into Google Docs in order to collaborate with co-authors or copyeditors.”
Adam Wiggins Interview, Hacker, entrepreneur (Heroku) · via Uses This 
“Anything that requires collaboration, I do in Google Docs.”
Eric Kissack Interview, Filmmaker, editor · via Uses This 
“I use a Google Docs spreadsheet to keep the master log of all my songs.”
Jonathan Mann Interview, Musician (2000 Songs In 2000 Days) · via Uses This 
“Almost all of my work ends up in some sort of Google Doc or Sheet.”
Morgan Holzer Interview, Information architect (NYPL) · via Uses This 
“I wrote my entire book in Google Docs (err, Drive) which made everyone very, very nervous.”
Mike Monteiro Interview, Designer, director (Mule) · via Uses This 

“And Google Docs, which I use to pass drafts back and forth with the editors of my two weekly columns (at New York magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review).”
Ann Friedman Interview, Journalist (New York magazine, Tomorrow) · via Uses This 
“All my data is in Google Drive, now, since I got a free 100G with my Chromebook.”
Jonas M. Luster Interview, Food scientist (el Bulli), developer · via Uses This 

“For writing, we use Google Docs.”
Daniel Cook Interview, Chief Creative Officer, Spry Fox · via Uses This 

“Mostly if I need to use a spreadsheet it has to be shared with other people (ex: conference budgets) so then I just swallow my Google-grudge and use Google Docs.”
Flourish Klink Interview, Story-teller, lecturer, IF writer · via Uses This 
“I don't need many bells-and-whistles for my document processing, so I use Google Docs for that.”
Bhautik Joshi Interview, Research engineer (ILM) · via Uses This 
“Anything outside of plain text gets handled in Google Docs.”
Ethan Schoonover Interview, Designer, developer (Kinkless, Solarized) · via Uses This 
“And of course Google Docs to write notes once and loads of post-its everywhere to write them again and again.”
Andreas Schuster Interview, Illustrator · via Uses This 
“I use Google Docs for all my reports and research documents.”
Karina van Schaardenburg Interview, User experience researcher (Twitter) · via Uses This 

“I like to use Google Docs to share task lists and track stuff.”
Renaud Bédard Interview, Game developer (FEZ) · via Uses This 
“I'm starting to do simple graphics and tables on Google Docs instead of Adobe.”
Douglas Rushkoff Interview, Media theorist, writer · via Uses This 
“I spend a lot of time in Google Docs, which our teams use to keep track of and modify design documentation and spreadsheets.”
Kris Piotrowski Interview, Creative director and co-founder (CAPY) · via Uses This 
“Google Docs is perfect if you're toggling between multiple computers.”
Thessaly La Force Interview, Writer, editor (The Paris Review) · via Uses This 

“My writing can usually be found on a Google Doc or in a wiki.”
Laura Khalil Interview, Marketer, puzzler, robot builder · via Uses This 
“If I need a spreadsheet I use Google Docs.”
Joel Johnson Interview, Writer · via Uses This 
“Google Docs for my (very light) spreadsheet needs.”
Mark Pilgrim Interview, Developer & standards advocate (Google) · via Uses This 
“Otherwise I'd use Google Docs exclusively.”
Violet Blue Interview, Writer, speaker, sex educator · via Uses This