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Battlescribe is invaluable and I happily pay the subscription or whatever.
if you pay you can save commonly selected units and one-click add them.
The idea of doing it all manually for a random Tuesday night game is depressing.
I sometimes turn up to random games with 2 variants of a list (e.g. one with slightly more toyz, one with slighly more boyz) then dice off to decide which one to use.
For a tournament there will be a lot of tinkering in Battlescribe followed by a proper write up with codex in hand.
TO of Death Before Dishonour - A Warhammer 40k Tournament with a focus on great battles between well painted, thematic armies on tables with full terrain.
I use Word/Google Docs. Like the OP, I looked at Battlescribe and found the interface to be an absolute mess. I'm sure it's great once you get used to it, but I've never had any problems using a simple document and a calculator.
