note-taker and blogging

< Next Topic | Back to topic list | Previous Topic >

Pages: 1 2 >

Posted by WSP
Jan 27, 2017 at 09:22 PM

I have a couple of scholarly blogs, and I am always on the lookout for a note-taking program that will provide a good home for my rough drafts. For one of the blogs, I have, over a period of several years, been using Evernote. It handles the task very efficiently, but EN annoys me constantly because it is so ugly on the screen, and its formatting is so inconsistent. I would love to escape it if I can.

The problem is that alternatives I have investigated—including RightNote, MyInfo, and OneNote—fail one key test. With Evernote I can simply drag and drop images into WordPress. The other programs don’t allow me to do that, so the process of adding an image to a post becomes moderately time-consuming.

Is there any other program that will do this trick?

Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 28, 2017 at 01:15 PM

I believe Microsoft Word has a “blog post” template and automation that supports posting to WordPress.

You might check with the WordPress support site for suggested Windows platform applications that support creating, editing, and posting to WordPress.

Posted by WSP
Jan 28, 2017 at 06:36 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. I had already begun some experiments using the OneNote > Word > Wordpress route. It offers interesting possibilities, but unfortunately the text formatting tends to become a bit scrambled.

Posted by WSP
Jan 28, 2017 at 08:56 PM

Just a small postscript. I’ve done some further experiments this afternoon with the OneNote-Word-WordPress technique. I see that I can easily remove text formatting in Word; of course then some of that formatting has to be restored in WordPress, but fortunately at least links are preserved in the process.

I wonder if anyone else here as used this process, and if so whether you have any advice for me.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 28, 2017 at 11:02 PM

Hi,

I found Word a good starting point for getting formatted text into Wordpress.
Wordpress correctly interprets bold, italics, underline, hyperlinks, numbering, bullet points and - most importantly for me - the Word paragraph stylesheets (Headline 2 is turned into

, etc.). I just have to copy and paste the Word document into a Wordpress page. What I never tried is inserting images in the Word document and copying that into Wordpress. In my experience the Word2Wordpress route works a bit better than the LibreOffice2Wordpress route and much, much better than the Textmaker2Wordpress route (I prefer Textmaker over Word and LibreOffice because of its great Duden Korrektor spellchecher and grammar checker). What is it that does not work for you, WSP?

Pages: 1 2 >
Back to topic list