![]() Then, you export it to HTML (or RTF or plain text, if you must be so déclassé) and put it on your Web page, if you’re still into that mode. MacJournal stores its entries in what seems to be RTF, so you have access to the full OS X rich-text editing suite and you can do other interesting things, like insert text links that show up as underlined and clickable. I reviewed MarsEdit in January, so I wanted to kick the tires on an entirely different kind of client. The first thing I did with MacJournal was, basically, try it for its intended purpose. MacJournal, doing a month’s worth of computerized organizing. Before I finished downloading the disk image, my software was already developing an ulcer worrying about organizing me. Thompson, R.I.P., and produce clean writing: I have yet to fax my astonishingly patient editors, Michael Tsai and Chris Turner, numbered pages of notes otherwise out of sequence. The computer has made it possible for people like me to be as disorganized as gonzo Hunter S. To write one of my columns or reviews isn’t rocket science, but it sure generates a lot of inane jottings. ![]() It involves a lined paper notebook, voice notes on my cell phone, sticky notes on my desk, text and clipping files strewn about on my desktop, a Gmail label for link dumps, and a clipping drawer in Drop Drawers X. My writing system has undergone natural selection over the years. Let me detail the challenge I was asking a piece of software to overcome. To give away the conclusion, the answer was that it was not useful as a blog client, that it did made me more organized, but that didn’t lead to better or faster writing. The goal, in reviewing Mariner Software’s very nice tool, was both to test its explicit functionality and to see if MacJournal made my writing process cleaner and more organized. In any given month, I take notes on research for info graphics, product pages, and features I’m working on I make clippings for fiction that is under way I jot things down for the occasional weblog post and of course I produce my columns and reviews. When I write a Bloggable column, I do about three hours of organization. I sat down, just before I agreed to review MacJournal, and took an inventory of all the myriad places I keep my text files, and it dawned on me that I must be insane. Where did I put that nut graf for the signed column I’m writing? Where did I write down those inspired sentences to make into a lead-and where are my notes on that review of MacJournal for ATPM? This detail, along with others-breaks in journal entries aren’t recognized by the popular Blogger site, for example-make MacJournal 4 feel unfinished I look forward to a 4.0.1 bug fix, and ultimately to a version 4.x with better podcast publishing implementation.When you write often and generate a great deal of supplementary text, as a blogger or as a “real” writer, keeping track of all the bits you’re pushing becomes quite a challenge. Mariner says one-step podcast publishing is planned for a future version 4 update. Then, you must manually post the folder to a server via FTP. To publish a MacJournal entry that contains an audio file, you must first export it as a podcast, which places the sound file and an XML index file (used for podcast RSS feeds) in a folder on your hard disk. Less fine, however, is MacJournal’s clunky approach to publishing podcasts. GarageBand 3 ( ) as a podcast recording tool, but its 64Kbps/44.1MHz mono recording capabilities are fine for voice-intensive audio files. It presents standard record, play, and pause buttons, plus an LED-style audio-level input indicator. MacJournal’s podcasting tool, the Recording Bar, works with your Mac’s built-in microphone and most add-on mics (but not the one built-in to Apple’s iSight camera). ![]() That’s frustrating in light of the important role tables play as Web-page layout elements. Tables look great as long as your entry is in MacJournal’s native file format but, because the program cannot generate HTML tables, if you save an entry containing a table as a Web page (in HTML format), or publish it to a blog site, the table disappears. Unfortunately, blog-hosting sites don’t always support background colors and images in the same way, so these settings may disappear when you post an entry to your blog.Ī more consistent vanishing act occurs with entries created with MacJournal 4’s new Table tool, which makes it easy to build and even nest tables on a page. New entries can inherit global attributes, or you can assign custom characteristics to them. You can also use the Inspector to assign background images and colors to documents, individual journals, or entries.
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