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[apiphile]

Today's ideas: Bento box speakers, modular housing layouts, and a modular writing program/app with formatting add-ons and a non-proprietary file format like fucking .rtf or something that you can use on your phone & then carry on using in Word without interruption

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[wolfy_writing]

That writing app idea sounds really good! I've got an app that can jump between my computer and my table without interruption (er, generally - it does cloud syncing, and 95% of the time that means you open the file and it's current). It's very handy.

Achy and snotty and bad time of the month are a bad combination and make it hard to think.

The traffic cone looks awesome!

Sorry your brain is being difficult. I think you're right that it's acting out because you're changing a lot of the familiar ways of dealing with stuff, and that's creating stress.

[apiphile]

I've floated the idea on facebook and the various programming types inform me that a modular app is impossible because Android etc is set up for discrete apps to avoid interference (I can see that it would be pretty much ripe for abuse) and so far the main suggestion has been to use Markdown, which seems a bit more complicated than I really want. I'm still stuck at emailing files back and forth between tablet and laptop, and just writing notes to myself on the phone.

Pretty awful, although I put the binder on and felt rather like superman in comparison - still snotty and period-painy but once again able to stand up properly without my boobs destroying my back (and then ran for a bus and HEARD my ankle make a CRUNCH noise and guess what now isn't working).

I am just going to pour vodka on it if it keeps misbehaving, or sleep aggressively at it.

[wolfy_writing]

Weird. It doesn't sound that different from what I have with Pages. (I think they mostly save files in a proprietary format, but they can do .doc or .rtf or several other things, they automatically cloud-sync so you can write on one device and open the file on the other, and you can put it pretty easily on a tablet, laptop and phone.) That's Apple, not Android, but you'd think it wouldn't be hugely different.

That binder is awesome. You should wear it a lot. (Ooh, bad luck with the ankle!)

Good plan!

[apiphile]

There's often a gap between what's available for IOS and Android, though. I mean, there's that one for writing books which all the Mac users I know are mad keen on (script-something? Cannot remember) which is apparently mad good but I can't find it for love nor money working on a Windows machine & am still clunking along in Word.

[wolfy_writing]

Scrivener, possibly? It's got a good reputation, but I haven't got it partly because it doesn't have a tablet app, and partly because - you know how you are about taking a class, and the way you don't judge other people, but you'd judge yourself? That's pretty much how I'd feel about buying fancy writing software. (Pages was okay because it was 1) a general word processer, 2) useful for concrete practical reasons such as helping me not lose files and syncing well between devices, and 3) actually cheaper than standard word processing software.)

[apiphile]

Scrivener! That's the baby. Also, I find Word as it stands is good enough for organising things... or I'm arrogant enough to believe I can write without it. One of those.

[wolfy_writing]

I mostly don't organize things, or organize them in my head, which is probably not awesome technique.