Train Or Bus? Or Flying Carpet (Writely)
Sometimes I’d like a flying carpet. Not all the time. I’d use it sparingly, you know, not to pop down to the corner store. But important things.
It would help living in the city. Although then everyone would want one. And the skies would become crowded with threads and I imagine some small problems would occur.
But at least I wouldn’t be wanting to lift a bus in rage.
This morning I waited over half an hour for a bus. It was after 7am .. so they should really have been kicking in. In that period, right at the end of the half-hour, one finally arrived .. full to the brim. No more people.
Like Blackboard out of Mr Squiggle I was .. “Hurry Up! Hurry Up!”.
Missing my chiropractor appointment wasn’t the worst part of the exercise. The tradgedy that really got my boxers in a squeeze was that I had missed out on some very much needed sleep. 7am is a rather early hour for me, considering the hour i rest my head.
Ahem.
Now onto the real substance of this post.
Writely. I’m still using it, even with the Post Title issue. It’s too valuable a tool. Being able to have my posts stored elsewhere, with nice functionality when editing, just makes my heart all squishy.
Shortcuts. Keyboard. Shortcuts.
The two circled above are really the beesknees.
1. Saving with CTRL-S.
This removes the inherant fear of the web, it’s apparent loss-ful data state. It allows me to never be scared of the back button again (I’m looking at you, Wordpress Admin). Now, if Wordpress came up with a processor like Writely, well .. bam. It’d be awesome.
2. Adding a link with CTRL-K.
I have, in the past, typed my links out in full, or copied them from the header of the page i wanted to link. Using CTRL-K is another removal of needing the mouse, although you do have to actually get the link. So if you are linking a page that you don’t know the url, you have go through a few more steps. What would be cool though, is to have a shortcut system within Firefix itself.
E.G. CTRL-1-V .. pastes the url of the first tab in Firefox. CTRL-4-V would obviously paste the url of the fourth tab.
Tagging allows similar functionality to most other document systems.
Christine D. of the Ultimate Tag Warrior (Wordpress Plugin) very kindly showed me that you can embed your tags into the document before posting to Wordpress, and it will then read them. Of course, this means you would have to double entry the tags. Another falling short on Writely’s ability to send information. Probably not ability. Probably design I guess. But it seems like something relatively easy to fix, like the Title issue.
Posting to your blog is actually pretty easy. You fill in the above details once (Writely supports one blog only at this time), and then you can post away to your heart’s content.
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Writely is a good tool. I’m looking forward to seeing what Google do with it.
Next on the agenda is a look at my experiences with joining the Exclusive Use Of Gmail club. Not sure if that’s a club. Maybe it should be. Like the “No Homer(s)” club before it. Or not.
Cheers,
Hey no idea this post was going to be about wordpress till I clicked in… way to promote
good tips… but really the couple of extra key strokes to type a rather than bring up a dialog? Plus its good to write html 
Comment by Adam — September 1, 2006 @ 12:41 am
HTML?????? Dude, the web is dead. Long live the web. There’s no more need for code, ever. Coding is a thing of the past. It’s all about building stuff without any code. NO CODE. NONE.
Wow. I guess some people think that way. Scary. Even just pretending to be in those shoes.
Anyway. Yeah .. i kind of tried to see if a post with a teaser that had nothing to do with the actual post would work. Because by all sane laws, it shouldn’t have been read much. People generally wouldn’t care to go past the first page.
So it was an experiment I guess. Something anyway.
Comment by Stu — September 1, 2006 @ 9:35 am
[...] Odds & Ends Published by Stu 0 minutes ago in Development, Dev Shout, News & Opinions, Clarion For the first time in a while (yeah, it’s been a while between posts too, shame shame) I’m writing within the realms of the Wordpress Admin. Feels kinda strange to not have the flexibility of a full-blown word processor that autosaves what I’m typing (Writely, see This Post), amongst other cool features. But Writely jigged me. I received an email (as everyone who had a writely account would have) saying I had to migrate across to my google email address .. naturally I did nothing about it until yesterday when I could no longer log in with my old account. Logging into my new Google account (not new really) I realised that none of my documents had come across. Now, because I only took a cursory glance at the email, I presumed a few things. Presuming is bound to get you into trouble. I presumed that Google new who I was.I presumed they would know both my normal email and my google email were linked, somehow, somewhere in the infinite depths of the data they store.And finally, I presumed that Google would be able to magically pull my current documents across to my gmail account in Writely. Bummer. It didn’t work out that way. And now I have no way (haven’t actually searched for people having the same problem, and there probably is some solution) to get at those documents. There weren’t a huge amount of documents, and nothing I really need .. but it was the start of building up a nice collection of writings. Big shout out to Clarion X today. John is putting together a nice site, lots of cool stuff. A serious bank of knowledge sits between his ears, and he’s putting the best bits onto the pages of Clarion X, so go on over, if you haven’t already, and take a look. Elsewhere in the news, we read that .. well .. I haven’t read much of the news this week, so I’m gonna get back to work. Cheers to One & All for reading these Odds & Ends, [...]
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