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![]() Eventually, though, I became frustrated with the lack of portability for my documents, and I also wanted a writing environment with native support for Markdown since I find that goes a lot faster than menu-based WYSIWYG formatting. I used Evernote for a couple of years, and I liked how quick and easy it was to just start writing. I haven't published much lately, and I definitely don't blog regularly, but between emails, letters of recommendation, class planning, committee work, and all of the other things that occupy my day, I'm probably cranking out a couple of thousand words a day. ![]() What I need instead is something quick and minimal, because as it turns out I actually need to do quite a bit of writing. The new Gutenberg is interesting, but it really just cranks the bells and whistles to 11. And once I'm in WordPress, the actual writing process is just as distracting as writing in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. On this site, for example, I have to:Īdmittedly, not that many steps, but when the wifi is slow or, even when it's not, WordPress can take 30 - 60 seconds to bootstrap itself before it finally loads on my screen. WordPress is great for sharing blog entries, but takes even more steps. Microsoft Word is on my computer but even more annoying to start up, and with both Word and Google Docs, I'm always distracting by fonts, typography and formatting. Give the document a heading and title of some sort.Wait for the Google docs editor to load.
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