Yesterday I wrote about my fun day writing something which was terribly boring – a user documentation manual. As I wrote it led me to ponder the nature of user documentation in general. Specifically, what format it should take when it’s shared with the users. For years the go to choice has been “Portable Document Format,”…
Tag: writing
A fun day of writing something boring
Yesterday was rather interesting. My son was home sick with the same thing that knocked me out for most of last week. He’s not as wiped out as I was 1, but we’re giving some medicine so I decided I work at home and stick with him. This gave me enough quiet space to sit…
Typed, Markdown Zen
Earlier this year I wrote a post on an amazing Markdown1 editor for iOS called Editorial. Since I’ve taken up Editorial on my iPad and iPhone I’ve been looking for an editor of comparable quality on my Mac. There are several popular Markdown editors on the Mac App Store, and I’ve purchased two of the…
Scrivener and Ulysses III — The Stuff of Writers’ Dreams
About two years ago I was looking for a decent application on my Mac which could help me create ebooks from my writing – mainly devotionals, blog posts, and studies I write for the congregation I pastor. I also was looking to create an eBook version of our weekly bulletin to augment our digital version….
Hello Draft
When I first picked up my Nexus 7, one of my biggest concerns was the lack of a decent markdown editor. Editors either didn’t have robust enough dropbox support, had odd quirks with the HTML rendering, or didn’t allow me to easily export the raw HTML for use as blog posts. A short while after…
The great migration
Over the past several years I’ve been on an interesting word processing journey. First, I decided to migrate from a traditional desktop suite to the online offering Google Docs (which is now part of Google Drive). I hadn’t originally expected to stick with Google Docs for my regular word processor, but I quickly became hooked…
