BBEdit vs. Overleaf

I'm primarily a graphic designer who does occasional web development. For me, BBEdit works very well. I use it both for developer projects (editing code, editing system files) and for general text processing (cleaning up, formatting, or extracting text). I like that it offers real-time previews of edits to web project files. It comes with some nice editor themes and supports adding more or customizing them. I expect that for some coders, it will be inadequate. It is not an IDE. On the other end of the spectrum, someone who expects an experience more like Microsoft Word will be very disappointed; or if they wanted something more along the lines of Windows Notepad, they may find it to be overkill. It is an ASCII text editor with many advanced commands and tools built-in.

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Overleaf is good to use in a lot of scenarios where something is to be written as a group. However, I believe that it is only good up to a certain amount of people working on the document at once. While I am unsure when it becomes too much, I got no doubt that there is a limit for when it is that good. Though normally, our group size of up to six people has been fine to work with in Overleaf.

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• BBEdit remembers what I had open, so I never have to worry about losing work when I accidentally close the software. It will hold onto information almost indefinitely, so that the next time I open a program, I can access the information that I may have forgotten to save. Thankfully, its save function is also very simple to use, so I recommend still saving your work as needed.
• Scripts are the most important aspect of BBEdit for the company I work for. Being able to import scripts and create new ones all in the same location are great.

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• Easy to get started and compile documents
• Collaborative scientific writing
• Latex documentation
• Built in templates
• Comments and chat features

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• The cost of this product has just become too much for the functionality that most people need. You can find free or $10 tools that do what most people need to do.
• The BBEdit program has lots of functionality, but could it be too much? Are there too many options?
• It seems that there are too many upgrades.

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• New user friendliness
• More concise error messages
• Layout

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I've been using BBEdit — no joke — for nearly three decades now. Believe it or not, I'm still getting "upgrade pricing" 13 versions later. Bare Bones' support has always been stellar, and pricing continues to be affordable compared to similar tools.

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BBEdit wins over TextEdit every time. They are as different as chalk and cheese. I am so glad we moved to BBEdit.

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Overleaf promotes collaboration and has much better scientific formatting, which makes it great for research papers. It allows for much smoother and more professional looking documents, with easy to change and configure formatting. It is very difficult to insert mathematical formulas and long complex derivations in Microsoft Word, and formatting in Microsoft Word is also very finicky.

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• It saves me time, not only with web projects, but even with design, when I want to strip out formatting in text, I bring it in to BBEdit to clean it up.

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• Easier teamwork
• Better looking reports
• Better overview over document

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