Write about your writing tools. (Flashback to 2004 post about the switch away from MovableType)
These days I’m pretty much back exclusively to WordPress.t
There might have been something I used prior to OpenDiary, but that’s lost to the Internet Archive, and I have no idea what my username would have been more than twenty years later.
Getting information in to the CMS is now pretty much an in-browser operation. I remember fun things with things like LISP things for EMACS.
For my writing lately, it’s all within an OS-native browser. I typically type into WordPress, then copycasta other places. But I can save the archives in XML files I can easily move around.
I probably ought to write scripts to scp things periodically, but manual copying and pasting makes it um…yeah, I’ll get to it.
But that WP uses documented, open data specifications makes me feel a bit better about throwing my data into it. When OD went on hiatus, I just had ASCII files of all I’d ever written there from the export tool. Some of the things I’d done with things like black text on a black background get lost. In the XML file, maybe, things won’t disappear so easily.
I guess I could print things to PDF, too, but holy god that’d be unwieldy.
I still do need to consolidate some, but it’s not been something high on the priority list. I say that as I write in a house where I basically can’t find anything, and am trying to figure out how much energy I want to spend on trying to get this set up.
Ugh.
More tomorrow.