I like Grammarly, but I definitely wouldn't let it interrupt me while I'm writing. I don't install the Grammarly extension or write in the Grammarly app. Instead, I paste my content into Grammarly as a last step after editing the content myself, and I find that to be an effective workflow.

I began writing recently in a browser editor (substack) that doesn't do the corrective spelling. I could barely write because I had to constant stop and figure out how to really spell the word. Totally revealed, for better or worse, how sloppy I had become as a typist.

My go to is MS notepad. I will write everything in paragraphs in notepad then copy paste it in. Nothing is more fast and convenient than the classic Notepad.

If only I could find something that is as fast as notepad, as convenient as notepad, as easy to work with as notepad but with Vim key bindings. That would be fantastic. Tried Gvim but that is no notepad.

...perhaps vim or neovim?

Now that I REALLY think about it.... I guess I don't need vim. I am one of those persons who tries to convince themselves they need vim for everything to fit in the with the cool kids. I understand the hypocrisy and I kinda need this hypocrisy for motivation reasons I guess.

Modifying Vim to the point it replicates notepad defeats the purpose of using vim. I need a handful of Vim key bindings but beyond that customizing the rc file to make it more like notepad is just too much of a hassle.

I use text wrap and frequently use the scroll zoom. I miss 2-3 letters words in my writing so I have to get to them quickly when I am revising. Being a vim novice vim is great for me as I am writing but not for editing and revising.

And Windows environment really isn't great for rapid typing with vim. Initializing the terminal takes me 10-20 seconds.

Neovim would be cool if every other plugin didn't break every other week. Updates or no.

I write on a Mac: TextEdit- it can do a word count at least