I will strive to make this work for as long as I can, but it’s a markedly more painful way to work than what I had on all other platforms.
#MARSEDIT SWITCH BLOG WINDOWS#
That takes me back to the Windows XP days. Check out the animation that plays when it’s publishing an article: Like I said earlier, it feels very much like Microsoft Word, which is not an experience I cherish. I would need to have one massive document with everything in it, which is a tough way to work.Īnd finally, this is a personal preference thing, but I really don’t find the interface to be pleasant at all.
No app I can find on Windows even has this concept in place at all. My watchOS 5 review currently has 7 documents total and I’ve been able to move things around quite easily as the flow of the whole piece takes form as I write. Third, there is no way to make larger multi-part documents, which is something I rely on heavily for my longer pieces. I can set a time, tags, and categories, but I lose the ability to do featured images, excerpts, custom URLs, and the option to post as Markdown instead of HTML. Second, the publishing tools in the app are less robust than I’m used to with Ulysses. With this it’s now bouncing back and forth between the site and app as I copy the post name, link, quote text, and post title one at a time.
#MARSEDIT SWITCH BLOG MAC#
On the Mac there are extensions for apps like MarsEdit, and iOS has options that use Ulysses or Drafts to automatically pull multiple data points from a website and compile them into a new post with just a tap. I actually posted 3 drafts to the site from Open Live Writer before this post because I was trying to figure out how it would render things.īeyond the WYSIWYG editor, this is also less useful for me in numerous other ways:įirst, there is no way to quickly get information into the app for something like a link post. Having an app convert my work to whatever HTML it thinks is right fills me with apprehension. I know how my site renders the multitude of types of data a blog post can contain, and writing in Markdown (and switching to HTML if needed) is essential for me. If you want to write in a WYSIWYG editor then this might work for you, but I dramatically prefer Markdown. If you think writing blogs in Word is fun, then this if for you. This is Open Live Writer, which is an open source version of an app Microsoft used to maintain, and it is basically a stripped down Word app with publishing tools.
If you’re thinking “that looks like Word!” then you would be right. My switch to Windows these past few weeks has not only blown up those workflows, which was expected, but it doesn’t seem to have any suitable replacements that feel like they’re any better than blogging on the Mac/iPad was 10 years ago.Īfter a few weeks trying different solutions, this is what I’ve settled on as the best workspace for writing for BirchTree: As technology has improved and App Stores have have allowed more interesting services, these changes have almost always been for the better removing steps and friction along the way. Writing for this site is a hobby I’ve had for close to a decade at this point, and in that time, the workflow for getting content from my head to the site has gone through a million variations and has changed a ton.
Augwindows Windows Completely Breaks My Blogging Workflow
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