[linuxftw]

My approach is to do heavy writing in a plain text editor, then I paste into a word doc and format. Having to worry about spell correct and auto-indent doing weird stuff, grammar suggestions, all very distracting when you're trying to brain-dump words into a document.

[codq]

Drafts (https://getdrafts.com/) was made for this.

[eykd]

Yes. Markdown formatting was a godsend to me. Just give me the text.