It's funny you should mention Emacs... I was initially a fully paid-up Scrivener user, but just couldn't get on with it. I found myself fighting with it far mo

It's funny you should mention Emacs... I was initially a fully paid-up Scrivener user, but just couldn't get on with it. I found myself fighting with it far more than I would have liked - especially around generated output. Granted this would have been nearly ten years ago now I think. I switched to Ulysses. I found I loved writing in Markdown! I then upgraded to Ulysses III when that came out and never looked back. But GitHub changed everything... Now I write pretty much everything in Emacs. I initially used AsciiDoc markdown, but now I use Github flavoured markdown (GFM) in Emacs. Public writing is in a public repo on GitHub and I have a private repo there too for personal/work-in-progress type stuff. Full revision history and command line goodness. Lovely jubbly. The way I tend to write is each chapter is a GFM file. I can use command line tools to turn that into HTML/PDF and sometimes roll my own tools in Python/shell. I do sometimes write shorter pieces and combine them. I do still use Ulysses for things like lists and odd notes, but it's getting less common. I guess at the end of the day it's whatever works for you, but yes Emacs with GitHub is working really well for all my writing needs right now.