In this video I show the benefits of writing in a text editor. I link to descriptions of these things which you can find in Sublime Text and Atom.

The features I demonstrate are below the video. I forgot to show a few of features I most use:

• navigation
  • jump back and jump forward
  • quickly set and move between bookmarks
• text expansion via completion

• navigation
  • minimap scrollbar
  • goto sections
  • ACE Jump
• multi-line edit
• every sentence on a line / semantic line feeds
  • quickly move lines and paragraphs up and down
• folding
  • sections
  • comments
  • everything except current paragraph
  • everything but first lines of paragraph
• filter lines
• origami pane manager
• bonus
  • repo (borrowed from WriteMonkey)
  • gitgutter
  • search shortcuts