Like most pro writers, I mostly work in HTML or markdown (or else in very very minimally stylized text) I can't remember the last time I needed word processor tools.
So I write in BBedit. By hiding most tools and adjusting doc style prefs, the look's downright pleasant (as opposed to the default monospaced code look). But while pro writing these days is more about text editing than word processing, BBedit is failing miserably for me. I've been a Mac user since System 6, but it's clear that Finder is not a modern file or doc management system. That's why many pro level apps contain their own organizational systems (many such apps are like OSes unto themselves unto themselves). I need to powerfully categorize, tag, organize, and prioritize docs on the fly, and Finder (which BBedit still relies upon) isn't up to that task. I began to despair of saving/storing BBedit docs just as the app started auto-saving unnamed/unsaved documents. It's gotten bad. I have two project windows open at all times, each containing literally hundreds of untitled documents in various stages of completion. This is a disaster. I've considered working, instead, in Scrivener, a word processor for writers with very powerful doc management tools. But I'd lose all my BBedit power, plus I'd find myself in a word processor - an environment more suited to 1990 than to 2015 (how many pro writers screw around with tabs and stylized text these days??). The alternative: enjoy BBedit's highly modern editing power, and be relegated to 1990 doc management. Either way, I must forego modernity in one aspect or the other. It's a huge problem....and I can't be the only casualty! So, is anyone else out there writing/editing in BBedit, and finding a way to also efficiently manage their stuff (i.e. off/above the Finder model)? I'm imagining usage of BBedit as a service...i.e. text stores in an app like Scrivener, but everything momentarily worked on gets passed via scripting to a BBedit window which auto-saves back into Scrivener (BTW: I don't love Scrivener.....but it's the only thing out there that doc manages as powerfully as BBedit text edits...I'm open to other ideas). -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
