I've been writing a technical book slowly over the course of the past little while. It's split into fairly small sections so each one has a file that's technica

I've been writing a technical book slowly over the course of the past little while. It's split into fairly small sections so each one has a file that's technically markdown, but it's mostly just headings and lists for things that aren't raw text and code samples. I use vim since it's easy and light for work on my laptop, and I just like it for plain text editing at this point. More productive? Not by a notable amount I'd say. Editing is straight forward - 1 sentence per line makes finding things easy. I'd also say that the tool you use for most things doesn't matter as much as the act of doing (age old advice here on HN). If you get distracted a lot then maybe it's worth a shot, but by no means is Google Docs not up to snuff if you just want to get some words written down.