tightbeam
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- Member since
- August 2008
- Topics started
- 9
- Total posts
- 325
- Last active
- 5/23/2025
Posts
Gingko Desktop
3/29/2018
Reading comprehension...
He wasn't "scared to use a credit card on the internet." He was reluctant to give his credit card details to the developer who then explained that his payment system used Str...
Gingko Desktop
3/28/2018
"...support the developers of that software..."
Well, that's the crux of it. How best to support developers. Praise and acclaim; or feedback and criticism. A measured balance of both?
You're right, ...
Gingko Desktop
3/28/2018
> But I don't tell them they suck, for the same reason I don't boo local bands who I see in local bars even if they suck.
Has anyone done that? Point it out, and I'll agree with you. Always giving pr...
Gingko Desktop
3/28/2018
I don't know what you mean by "bitter childhood experiences", but what you call cynicism, I call realism, which is often in short supply. My intent is not to berate developers, but to slightly tilt th...
Gingko Desktop
3/28/2018
Is his core clientele really more likely to have Bitcoin than PayPal? Of the two payment options available for the desktop version - Bitcoin or sharing my credit card information with an overseas one-...
Gingko Desktop
3/28/2018
I think it's worth $15 for current product, $45 for future potential. There's a lot missing, and based on what the developer wrote, I'm not convinced that he intends to provide it.
shatteredmindofbo...
Gingko Desktop
3/27/2018
He probably meant to post under the "FreeWriter" topic.
Whatever...
(Thanks!)
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
bobmclain wrote:
>> The only code there is "whatever".
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>Washere was perhaps a bit concise in his comment, but what he and
>dan7000 were ...
The only code there is "whatever".
washere wrote:
https://pastebin.com/Ewf6mD9f
I second cicerosc. Why bolt on complexity that so few users likely want or need, and then trumpet the software as having those "features"?
I'm still not entirely sure what a "Miller column" is, or wh...
Maybe something will come of this, maybe it won't, but I can't see why anyone currently invested in Scrivener would descend from that hard-fought learning curve and start from the ground-up with Atomi...
ads
3/15/2018
If you start charging for access to the forum, I imagine the majority of users (most of whom I doubt ever post) will just stop using the forum. It seems more sensible to provide a means to donate, vol...
Unorthodox/clever software usage?
3/14/2018
Daly,
You really should install an ad blocker to make this problem go away. Unless you expect Chris to disable ads for the site, the solution must come from your end.
It *is* strange that you're exp...
Unorthodox/clever software usage?
3/12/2018
Installing Ad Blocker or UBlock Origin ought to solve the problem. I've never seen an ad on this site. According to my UBlock Origin stats, Google Syndication (an ad server) is blocked. That's undoubt...
iA Writer is coming to Windows - Please support the Kickstarter Campaign to make it happen!
2/15/2018
I could be wrong, but iA Writer seems more like a less fully featured version of WriteMonkey, and nothing at all like Ulysses.
Indigrid
1/24/2018
No rush for a Mac version - you guys already have loads of great, Mac-only software. Let's get the Windows version at 100% first.
steveylang wrote:
>
>Mark Nevarrik wrote:
>>
>>There is no newslette...
WriteMonkey gets better and better
1/23/2018
Version 3 is a whiff of good things to come, though it still has way too many sharp edges to use on a day-by-day basis. The Sublime Text-like menus, for example, are totally inaccessible unless you kn...
Indigrid
1/23/2018
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
> I also like the idea of antisocial, neurotic and introverted software
What's to like about that kind of software? Sounds more like an art project...
For Indigrid, I'd wo...
PS. He didn't build the website. It's a $15 Bootstrap theme:
Theme Name: iDea - Clean & Powerful Bootstrap Theme
Author: HtmlCoder
Author URI: http://www.htmlcoder.me
I didn't have a problem with the website - seen better, seen worse - but I didn't like his snooty dismissal of Microsoft Word as a writing tool. It's not an ideal writing tool, but for the vast number...
Indigrid
1/16/2018
Mark Nevarrik wrote:
I wanted to post an update addressing some of the great feedback I have
>gotten. I didn't want to make this thread a blog of updates, so I
>batched it all up into one post.
Thank...
Markdown everywhere
1/8/2018
And...there's a Windows version. Good to see a developer with common sense.
Skywatcher: You make some good points.
"It’s probably the same with writing and outlining software. Developers are not idiots, they’re aware of the fact that Windows is 85% of the market,...
There are quite a few of these around. For example, Hugo (unlike Spelt) supports Mac, Windows, and Linux:
https://gohugo.io
Also unlike Spelt, Hugo doesn't cost money, it's full featured, and its de...
SublimeText with LatexOutliner
1/5/2018
LatexOutliner has been in development for a couple of years, but it won't get much traction until it's available through PackageControl. Installing it manually is a hassle.
A similar plug-in (though ...