Often, we don’t really choose our text editor; we just keep using whatever we were trained on. A professor forced Notepad++ on us in university because he thought it was the least complicated editor that still came loaded with features. He wasn’t wrong, and I kept using it for years after graduation, until VS Code eventually took its place. But those are tools for code, not prose, and prose is what I spend most of my day writing. So over the last year, I gave the writing-first apps a fair trial: Obsidian, Notion, iA Writer, and a few others I won’t bore you with. Obsidian won me over, enough that I folded a messy pile of note apps into it, and it is still my daily driver. Most of the rest I dropped inside a weekend. And yet none of them, not even the app I open every morning, touches a tool older than all of them at the part that matters most: putting words down and then reshaping them. That tool is Vim, a …