I hate Microsoft Office

My dislike for Microsoft Office is getting bigger and bigger. I hate Powerpoint. I hate Word. I hate Excel. In this post I’ll show you some of the tools I like to use to remain sane.

WriteRoom + Markdown gives me all the formatting I need to create a nice looking, well typographed document for most purposes. One thing I’d like to see though, is an online version of WriteRoom – collaborative writing made silly simple.
The latest version of WriteRoom is simple, elegant, highly customizable and works for me. WriteRoom makes it easier to write.
This blog uses Markdown to convert text into valid xhtml strict. Markdown is plain text, with some conventions for describing headings, formatting, links and images. It’s very simple, and the original text document looks like a nicely formatted text document.

What? No OpenOffice?
OpenOffice is a Microsoft Office Clone. It uses the same metaphors, and has the same limitations as Microsofts hienous creation. Ok, OpenOffice is better: it’s free and open source and uses an open document format. But it is too complex and not very elegant.