# Community question of the week #9: Where do you write? **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Ghost\ **Created:** [March 18, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821 "2024-03-18T21:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RyanF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ryanf/32/17448_2.png) [@RyanF](https://forum.ghost.org/u/RyanF)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/1 "2024-03-18T21:00:35Z")
No, we don’t mean whether you write your posts from the bath 🛁 Instead, we’re interested in which software you use to compose your posts: **Do you write your posts directly in the Ghost editor or in another app like Notion, Google Docs, or iA writer.** Why do you choose one method or the other? _Poll ([view on site](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/1))_ There’s no right answer here. Any workflow that gets your posts published and out there is a workflow that works 💪 _Our community is a treasure trove of knowledge, experience, and creativity, especially when it comes to using Ghost. **Questions of the week** are an opportunity to share and learn from these resources._ * * * Miss our previous questions? Check them out below! - [#8: Creative uses of Ghost](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-8-creative-uses-of-ghost/45446) - [#7: Change these design settings first](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-7-change-these-design-settings-first/45132) - [#6: Customizations 💅](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-6-customizations/44934) - [#5: What’s your fave feature?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-5-whats-your-fave-feature/44339) - [#4: What’s your favorite theme and why?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-4-whats-your-favorite-theme-and-why/43160) - [#3: What advice would you give to someone just starting out with Ghost?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-3-what-advice-would-you-give-to-someone-just-starting-out-with-ghost/43008) - [#2: How do you use emojis?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-2-omg-emoji/42855) - [#1: Share a tip about Ghost that others might not know](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-1-share-your-tips-tricks/42676) ---
**Author:** ![fatshark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/fatshark/32/28558_2.png) [@fatshark](https://forum.ghost.org/u/fatshark)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/2 "2024-03-18T21:18:15Z")
[Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) on a Mac. Works fantastically well and uses Markdown. I use it for all my note taking. There’s a plugin for Ghost that uploads the text and creates a draft post in native format, so final tweaks can be made within the Ghost editor. It’s worth paying for Obsidian Sync to have the same info on all devices. I’ve also used Ulysses, but Obsidian is better in my view. ---
**Author:** ![RyanF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ryanf/32/17448_2.png) [@RyanF](https://forum.ghost.org/u/RyanF)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/3 "2024-03-18T21:19:37Z")
Great shout! Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/4 "2024-03-18T23:34:58Z")
I write directly in the Ghost editor. I often have half a dozen drafts, titles without content, random snippets, etc, but it keeps everything in one place! :) I’d like some content management and a calendar. One of these days I’ll write one! :) ---
**Author:** ![Stromfeldt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/stromfeldt/32/13572_2.png) [@Stromfeldt](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Stromfeldt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/5 "2024-03-22T06:09:42Z")
I used to be a masochist that highlighted printouts from which I made notes from: ![manual-workflow-3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/3X/9/7/9723c79cf6c0aaca1098d2d7e213bcfc11368d31.jpeg) …notes which I then used to write drafts by hand, each draft written upon updated printouts (derived from a nice print.css file I’ve created for my Ghost site): ![manual-workflow-1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/3X/c/8/c80780e7779f55c949dbee8b815ad4e3e323e35e.jpeg) But fortunately I now use [Readwise Reader](https://readwise.io/read) to highlight articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, Tweets, transcribed podcasts (transcribed via [MacWhisper](https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper)), etc, and then [Heptabase](https://heptabase.com/) to organize those Readwise Reader highlights for writing directly in Ghost. Heptabase’s v2 Readwise Reader integration is not bad, but I expect its v3, possibly coming sometime this year, to be much better. It’s possible that I might write posts directly in Heptabase once its v3 Readwise Reader integration is released (which could then be copied over to Ghost when completed), but I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![hamza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/hamza/32/28965_2.png) [@hamza](https://forum.ghost.org/u/hamza)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/6 "2024-03-22T08:55:48Z")
I guess I’m weird. I write in Word and have each post in its own folder along with any images/ charts/ data needed for that post. That then gets turned into Ghost/ Medium/ LinkedIn content and posted. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Schultz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/daniel_schultz/32/29056_2.png) [@Daniel\_Schultz](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Daniel_Schultz)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/7 "2024-03-24T21:45:13Z")
This is me as well, with a stop at the Hemingway editor. ---
**Author:** ![SJH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@SJH](https://forum.ghost.org/u/SJH)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/8 "2024-05-02T03:18:12Z")
Scrivener and Hemingway ---
**Author:** ![gmf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@gmf](https://forum.ghost.org/u/gmf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/9 "2024-12-09T01:27:37Z")
Found this post via search because I was curious myself. I’ve been writing in the ghost editor recently, but have used Ulysses in the past which was also nice. I got frustrated with Ulysses not having the ability to use all the ghost cards and having to do to much manual editing in the Ghost editor anyway so I ditched it in favor of using the Ghost editor directly. However, I’m considering returning to Ulysses as the writing environment is nice and copies of my writing in Ulysses serve as a backup in case something happens to my Ghost install. While using the Ghost editor directly, I don’t have a good approach to backing up all my writing and media. ---
**Author:** ![pureflo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/pureflo/32/35694_2.png) [@pureflo](https://forum.ghost.org/u/pureflo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/community-question-of-the-week-9-where-do-you-write/45821/10 "2024-12-28T00:25:33Z")
I also used Ulysses a long time ago and ditched it for the same reason you mentioned. I’m probably the weirdest one here - I use Sublime. Just a text editor mainly used for developers. Once I feel it’s completed, I then copy to the Ghost Editor.