The next thought was: why not use Dropbox? I then proceeded to locate MarsEdit’s Draft folder ( /Library/Application Support/MarsEdit/LocalDrafts), create an alias of it, and have the alias point to the original LocalDrafts folder now moved to Dropbox. In a nutshell: I liked the syncing, I missed MarsEdit’s interface for writing. Sure, I usually rely on another great tool - TextExpander - for automatically insert HTML tags, but I really missed handy features like copying a link from Safari and just adding it to the selected word with a shortcut. The bad: not having the little handy tools MarsEdit gives you for text and HTML formatting. It was just a matter of copying and pasting from NV to MarsEdit. I figured that some way to synchronise things would be a much more hassle-free option.īeing a fan of Notational Velocity, my obvious first solution was to start writing articles there, and then have them ready on whatever machine I planned to finish working on them.
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And the MacBook Pro is connected with a bunch of peripherals that it’s simply better to leave it there as a desktop machine rather than disconnect everything, especially in cases where I have to just grab a laptop and go away, without much time to plan things in advance. The fact is that I don’t have a comfortable spot in my flat or home office where I could sit and finish things with the PowerBook. Or, when I start on the MacBook Pro, I could then bring the MacBook Pro with me, etc. True, if I start writing a post on the PowerBook G4 17″, I could simply finish it on the same machine once I’m back home. Thus, it’s not infrequent that I start writing down ideas in MarsEdit on either of those PowerBooks when I’m on the move, to then finish and do the final edits at home on the MacBook Pro. Since I keep my main machine, a MacBook Pro, mostly in a desktop configuration, and I’m occasionally working elsewhere, I also rely on two other Macs, both still quite dependable: a 12-inch PowerBook G4, and a 17-inch model. But not always an article is born, developed, finished and published on the same Mac. Most of the times, my MarsEdit workflow is really simple: I sit at my desk and write my articles, like I’m doing right now.
I have been using MarsEdit since around 2006, and it is without doubt the best tool for managing and writing on blogs.
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