On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 12:56:39 Wen Lin wrote: > For longer doc as you mentioned, i thought Google doc would be pretty > good? It should have most of the features you require, and It also has > offline mode nowadays.
Thanks for the suggestion, I just tried out Google Docs (I hadn't previously realised that there was an Android app). The big problem with Google Docs is that it's "Document" is a desktop publishing file. When I'm writing a document that is going to end up as a blog post or magazine article it's not possible to do much formatting. In the case of magazine articles in most cases the editor will reject any formatting. So having a "portrait" layout of a desktop publishing WYSIWYG file in the middle of a "landscape" screen (which means any of the affordable monitors in recent times) is very inefficient. Also cut/paste operations include fonts, so when I copy references from web pages into a "Document" in Google Docs I have to go back and fix the font afterwards. Keep is even worse in regard to screen space, it uses significantly less than 1/3 of the screen space when editing a note. It seems that the Google people just decided that we shouldn't edit big files in Keep. I used Keep fro the notes for the last couple of LUV talks I gave and those notes were stretching the limits of what Keep can conveniently edit on the screen of a Thinkpad T420. On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 12:12:16 Jeremy Visser wrote: > Microsoft OneNote works fantastically for this. You’ve probably previously > experienced OneNote as it comes with MS Office, but what a lot of people > don’t realise is that they have a free-as-in-beer web-based version instead > which is functional enough for my needs. I've never used OneNote. The last time I did anything serious with MS Software was when MS defined TCP as "Transport Control Protocol". The last thing I did with MS-Office was to uninstall it to make more space for games (the only purpose of a Windows system IMHO). > OneNote notebooks are hierarchical (Section -> Page -> Content), pretty > free-form (just click anywhere, start typing — great for mind-mapping), and > yes, it does spell-checking. Sounds nice. > It does have a native Android app which I’ve never used. From what I’ve > read, the app is more apt for reading than writing, but for best results > give it a try. > > Don’t automatically discount it because it’s Microsoft. > > <http://www.onenote.com/> I might give it a go, but not today (I've got stuff to do and I've wasted enough time on Google Docs). The app being more suitable for reading is OK. What I'm after is doing most of my serious writing on a laptop or workstation and using a phone for any ideas that I get when a laptop/workstation isn't available. On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 02:13:09 James Harper wrote: > Any free-as-in-beer app is likely to be laden with ads. Do you have any > particular aversion to paying for such an app if it did all you wanted? I might pay, but not a lot. What do you suggest? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
