Jimmbo wrote:
It's not a tack-on. It's addressing a hole. As-is, BBedit auto-saves unsaved
docs....to an obscure folder, not easily discovered or searched (Spotlight
doesn't see it, I don't believe). That's a kludge of a solution (though a very
welcome one that's saved my ass a bunch). All I'm saying is that it ought to do
so more powerfully: bring those unsaved docs fully into the fold. Let us handle
metadata WITHIN the app. Anyone who considers metadata a ditzy b.s. realm not
befitting their workhorse text editor is hopelessly stuck in the past, IMO.
Or perhaps using untitled, unsaved files as a method of "managing" a
database of half-formed story ideas is a bad idea, and the reason you
are wanting BBEdit to add features to help you do so rather than finding
a less fragile system is *because* you're a Crusty System 7 dude. :)
(Part of) what you want out of a "workhorse text editor" is something
that I suspect the majority of people using text editors 8+ hours a day
don't need. Many of us might be... well, "annoyed" may be too strong a
word, but let's say "vastly bemused" if Bare Bones prioritized adding
category and tag metadata for temporary files -- for, in fact, that's
what auto-saved but untitled documents are, as far as it's concerned --
over features like, oh, Git integration.BBEdit is, at its heart, a
programmers' editor and it is chock full of tools explicitly designed
for managing and massaging source code. "Specifically crafted in
response to the needs of Web authors and software developers." It's just
turned out that a lot of those tools help you with your work, too.
I am quite sure there are ways you can improve your workflow and still
use BBEdit, but you may have to start thinking about how to use the
tools at hand to do so, rather than what the platonic ideal of those
tools would be for your use case.Make an "In Progress" project and drop
stuff in it. Hell, start out writing the ideas on the Scratchpad: just
type "----" and leave a blank line or two, and when you want to find the
snippets use Live Search to do that. You can even add #hashtags for
keywords. Once they graduate to a point where they deserve titles, give
'em titles and move them to documents. Or use Evernote or nvALT with hot
keys. It can be one keystroke to bring nvALT to the front and another
few to immediately zero in on a specific note; it cannot be *that*
incredibly stressful to bounce back and forth between it and a BBEdit
window.
- Watts
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