![]() Rene: Daniel, what's the background on MarsEdit, for those people who weren't familiar with how you basically stuck up Brent Simmons one day and took it out of his back pocket?ĭaniel: I started using MarsEdit, I think, back in about 2005, when I was a pretty early, to me, in my history of blogging, that was early days for me. John Gruber was kind enough to volunteer. I thought we'd have you on to talk about the new version of MarsEdit, and we'd find someone, anyone, who could talk about using it a lot. I wanted to do this thing where we did it last time with Greg Pierce and Merlin Mann on someone who makes an app and someone who just uses the hell out of that app. Having to save a file, upload it to my Media, and then reference it, is an absolute pain.Īuthor Prof.Rene: I say, welcome back, as though I just subsumed the entire debug run into this show, which I probably shouldn't be doing, but it feels that way internally. Why? There are two tools I rely on extensively when writing documentation – quick screen captures, and recording quick little GIF animations. ![]() However, the workflow I need to quickly publish updates from my Mac with minimal effort is definitely there. I’m not certain what the triggers are that prevent your post from converting to separate blocks, though this is not a big deal to me.Īt first glance, this tool seems a bit pricey. I can attempt to convert my post to Blocks…īut sometimes it results in no change, and leaves your post in classic mode. So, what happens when you publish a brand new post? It comes up in “classic” mode when you open your post in WP: Yet, we know that WP has made a substantial commitment to its Project Gutenberg – their new Blocks editor. It supports the most common formatting commands. You can see above it’s a basic functional rich-text editor. There are also options to edit your slug, tags, select the WP categories this post is assigned to, select your featured image, and other server options to set your post status, author, whether comments are closed, etc. You can see it fully supports Dark Mode in Catalina: Here’s the interface running on my Mac in Dark Mode. To continue, you must pay $49 for a full license. ![]() It’s free with complete features for 14-days, then your ability to publish content is disabled. Do not let the free price to download and install fool you. So, checking out MarsEdit, available on the App Store. My bit of frustration comes just with dealing with media files, mostly images. Given the great functionality that Project Gutenberg has given to WP users with Blocks, that’s not really a bad option. I am close to just giving up and editing directly on the WP interface. I’m not sure where they went? IFTTT supports an automatic hook to allow a new Evernote post to post to WP, but not a self-hosted WP blog like this. And frankly, this is just not anywhere near representing a high priority. Nothing out there does exactly what I want. So, on my quest to find the simplest, easiest editor that will let me publish posts quickly, with relatively rich content, I continue to stumble around. I need massive simplicity, and as much as I dig WordPress, I don’t find the workflow intuitive. I’m still slacking off on my hope to do a better job with keeping a presence online.
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