It's funny that you wish to move to a program such as Scrivener for your
writing projects seeing as it relies on a bundled database file format
which obscures much of your 'project management' workflows from OS X.
Scrivener is effectively an IDE for writing but rather than referencing
project
I was falling into the mire of string manipulation AppleScript-style. Very ugly
:(
The shell version is my favourite, even though it isn't particularly elegant.
I just have to accept that AppleScript is a glue language, not intended for
stand-alone use :)
Thank you for the suggestions!
Alex
Good afternoon,
On 11/2/15 at 5:07 PM -0800, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
What do I want out of this thread? Reread my OP. Workarounds!
Copy/Pasting into/out of Yojimbo/Evernote won't solve the
problem, for reasons I mentioned (thanks for the suggestion,
though). Anything else? Any
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Do you have an irrational fear of AppleScript?
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No. I love applescript.
I've responded quickly to postings which didn't require pondering and
experimentationi.e. the ones insisting my entire issue is silly, and/or
that Finder's a perfectly fine data management
On 12 Feb 2015, at 12:07, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
What do I want out of this thread? Reread my OP. Workarounds! Copy/Pasting
into/out of Yojimbo/Evernote won't solve the problem, for reasons I mentioned
(thanks for the suggestion, though). Anything else? Any non-crusties who've
On Feb 12, 2015, at 15:00, Alex Satrapa gr...@goldweb.com.au wrote:
I got stuck trying to get the time of day into a useful format.
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Hey Alex,
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the developers aren't going to tack a full-scale file-system-manager onto their
text-editor.
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It's not a tack-on. It's addressing a hole. As-is, BBedit auto-saves unsaved
docsto an obscure folder, not easily discovered or searched (Spotlight
doesn't see it, I don't
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Does file/document management have to be done within BBEdit? There are quite a
few file management tools for the Mac that will do all that kind of file
management for you, and since you have choice, you can find whatever tool does
it the best for your working style.
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I'd
Jimmbo,
You might want to look at it from a different perspective: what is
the problem you're trying to solve?, not from the perspective of:
which file-management tool will do what I want?.
From what you describe, you've got a lot of different scraps in flight
and would like a safe place to put
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I don't understand why you have literally hundreds of untitled documents in
various stages of completion, and how that's somehow connected with BBEdit
auto-saving unnamed documents.
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It's gotta be titled and saved somewhere, right? I don't always know where a
given piece
On 12 Feb 2015, at 02:54, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
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I don't understand why you have literally hundreds of untitled documents in
various stages of completion, and how that's somehow connected with BBEdit
auto-saving unnamed documents.
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It's gotta be
On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:00, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
But my suspicion is that if I can't do the organization, categorization,
classification and tagging within the app (ala Scrivener), I'll wind up right
back at my current cumbersome situation.
On Feb 11, 2015, at 09:54, Jimmbo
Yes, I'm already an Evernote user. That (or Yojimbo) is great for my recipes,
my takeout menus, my software licenses, my gadget manuals. Any static bits of
data.
But not so great for dynamic items getting worked on dynamically and
relentlessly. That's not what it's for.
You're envisioning
On Feb 11, 2015, at 15:13, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
Modern apps organize their data.
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This is a ridiculous overgeneralization.
Can BBEdit improve? Sure.
But the developers aren't going to tack a full-scale
Good morning,
On 11/2/15 at 9:10 AM -0800, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
Answer: it won't go back to EV. I'll accumulate untitled docs in BBedit
until I'm back to my present predicament, with a bunch of useless old
versions also confusingly in EV.
Unless I do that transference
Good morning,
On 11/2/15 at 1:13 PM -0800, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
As for shuttling text back/forth from Evernote, Yojimbo, or
Devonnote, that's no solution at all (see my reply re:
Evernote). Modern apps organize their data.
I've been (trying to) follow this thread, but I'm not
As someone who's in both BBEdit and Scrivener every day, I can speak
partially to this.
First, I think it's very easy to fall into the trap of assuming most
pro writers work the way you do, but that's not necessarily true. I use
Markdown and HTML exclusively for technical writing, but a lot
Does file/document management have to be done within BBEdit? There are
quite a few file management tools for the Mac that will do all that kind of
file management for you, and since you have choice, you can find whatever
tool does it the best for your working style.
--Kerri
It's a floor wax and
Good morning,
On 8/2/15 at 10:13 AM +1100, Alex Satrapa gr...@goldweb.com.au wrote:
It's hard to know what BBEdit is failing at for you because
powerfully categorizing, tagging, organizing and
prioritizing docs is really going to change from person to person.
For me, the one thing BBEdit
Jimmbo wrote:
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 haven’t seen much outside
Good morning,
On 8/2/15 at 10:38 AM +1100, Alex Satrapa gr...@goldweb.com.au wrote:
A quick run-down of the document management of Scrivener for those following
this discussion:
Scrivener has a “Binder” which is somewhat analogous to
BBEdit’s “Project” panel. You can organise documents
Alex Satrapa wrote:
I also use Byword for editing Markdown documents. My preference for
which editor to use changes depending on my mood and the weather.
Sometimes I prefer Byword’s “formatting” of Markdown (markup is faded
out, marked-up headings are bold and larger, italicised or bolded
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