![]() The result is a richer visual presentation, which is wonderful, but at the same time pages are slower to load, applications become bloated and freeze up, and information that could be presented simply and quickly is now presented via video, making us wait minutes just to get one or two key pieces of information.Ĭomplexity is bloated, slow, burdensome. We tend to take advantage of our increasingly powerful computing power by always increasing the complexity of our tasks and data - no longer is everything text-based (as the web used to be, way back when), but now everything is graphical and increasingly uses video. Sometimes I also add Open-meta tags to particularly frequently used texts.When it comes to technology, I strongly believe that simpler is better. This makes searching for these short texts (through NValt) lighting fast if I need them later. Otherwise I simply follow my naming conventions (described here and updated here). To make Byword files visible to NValt and Simplenote I make sure to add. This is of course on the Dropbox and thus accessible from other computers and my iPhone. I save my Byword files in the same directory where I save all my NValt notes. Bibliographies can then be automatically added either in Byword or in Scrivener or other later-stage applications. The arrival of Papers 2 makes it possible to insert citations in Byword. Most of my texts are now “born” in Byword and only then transferred to Scrivener for subsequent re-organization, compiling etc. I like Byword so much that I have even started using it for initial stages of writing longer articles. Interestingly, it uses iCloud synchronization of your texts between your Mac and other devices ( see review and screencast from MacSparky). Byword for iOS devices has been recently released as well. For bloggers or Web page editors Byword offers a possibility to copy HTML to Clipboard, which is very convenient. RTF, Word, or HTML format or simply copy and paste it into a document or email. After finishing my writings I export the text into. I really like Byword’s ability to complete brackets (of all shapes) and quotation marks. I normally use Markdown although I am not very good at it (and you don’t need to know what it is to use Byword). As soon as I start I go into its Fullscreen mode (⌘-Enter) and type away. Byword is extremely simple and well-designed. In the last several months, I have been using Byword for writing all my short texts. In addition, even on MacBook Air starting (and closing) Scrivener is a pretty slow business. For example, I used to keep three separate Scrivener projects: for research, teaching and administrative texts, but it quickly became confusing, because I could not decide or remember whether a particular text is for research or for teaching. Starting a separate Scrivener project for each small text is impractical and distracting. Scrivener is made for organizing texts, but all the choices it gives become a problem when you don’t want to think how to organize your files, you just want to write and send them away. ![]() ![]() In addition, you have to make a decision of how to organize your short disconnected writings. It takes time to open and its many bells and whistles easily distract your attention. I used to prepare such texts in Scrivener, but I found it far too complicated for simple one-piece texts. I do such writing in Byword, a beautiful Mac app which takes plain-text writing to an entirely new level. This is longer and more complicated than an occasional note but much simpler and shorter than, say, a full-length article. I often need to write a piece of text between 2 words: an abstract of a talk, a blog post or an administrative memo. ![]()
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