Comments on Diana Kimball: Text Me

I LOVE TXT! It's sort of the digital equivalent of...

2007-11-13T21:29:00.000-08:00

I LOVE TXT! It's sort of the digital equivalent of post-it notes--it *feels* really informal, so I feel okay typing whatever.

I don't know if you guys have something like this for Mac, but Tomboy Notes for Ubuntu runs my life. Think Wiki + Notepad. Yeah, they link to each other. I use it to take notes for PDF (like you), but also for to-do lists and brainstorming and keeping track of awesome things my friends say. And it C+Ps so well.

Yay text! Have you seen xPad? I'm in love with thi...

2007-11-13T20:43:00.000-08:00

Yay text! Have you seen xPad? I'm in love with this app. I used to keep lots of text files (notes, todos, etc.) saved on my desktop, but this is a lot cleaner. It keeps all the docs open in tabs and quietly sits in the dock when you don't need it, and it's really lightweight.

-jana

re: writing papers in textedit... I do that all th...

2007-11-13T13:11:00.000-08:00

re: writing papers in textedit... I do that all the time! For some reason, Word has too many distractions for me to handle. Until very recently, I *always* started and drafted the majority of the text of any serious writing in textedit, and then moved to word to format and print. the only thing that's a pain about that is textedit is real bad at smart quotes, even in rtf mode. So I've started to try to compose in word, and with the help of your minuteur+spaces hack, it's working!