With the release of the Pagecord API, I can scratch a small itch: publishing from iA Writer to my Pagecord blog. iA Writer isn't for everything, but it's good for focus, has nice attribution tools, and more importantly, it's the editor I've somehow stuck with. I've been curious about its ability to publish to various...

This is a test post sent to my Pagecord blog directly from iA Writer. Made possible by the Micropub spec and the Pagecord API. Details to follow another day.

It's what made Posterous such a joy—until it was killed. Email clients are kind of designed for writing. Images, links, text formatting, drafts, it's all there. (And if not, copy and paste from something else works.) This stunning realisation of the bleedin' obvious came back to me on a standard afternoon dog walk.

I'm very happy blogging via Pika. It’s a lovely system.  If at some point I want to try something new, or if they change direction or my interests change, I don’t mind exporting and importing elsewhere. I’ve done it quite a few times now: from Blogger, Posterous, WordPress, Hugo, Pika (I might have missed a couple and...

Diarium is a nicely thought out journal app for lots of platforms. It’s commercial, with great support. The key feature for me is that the data storage is SQLite, making the data portable and very hackable (but also: danger! don’t screw up your database). Here’s the schema as I can figure it out as of June 2024: Entries...

Adding to the My Blogging Workflow world, which I saw via I am BARRY HESS. What I do is: Open up Pika. Click “Write post”. Put down an idea, sentence, link, click “Save as draft”. Later — maybe an hour, maybe two days — if I still like the idea, complete the post and click “Publish post. That’s it. Contributing to why I...

The Kindle Scribe: it’s a big Kindle you can write on. I’m using it much more than the iPad I was using before for reading, or the Kindle Paperwhite I traded in. Experience so far: The writing experience is much better than the iPad + pencil. I take notes on it, rather than paper. I do miss having colour, though. It’s...

I used to write a bunch of technical things and general reckoning here, but that’s been supplanted: I use Bear, a markdown tool, for capturing technical stuff and tricks and tips. Hell, I basically use it for everything. It’s an app that keeps data private. I have Diarium for notes and photos about life that I used to...

As I’ve said before, I like to cycle the productivity tools I use from time to time. A change is as good as a rest, and all that. Today I’m using two tools for reading, and another two for writing. Reading After many happy years I’ve dropped Pocket for reading. I used it as a primary reading/triage tool, but it’s become...