https://mailchi.mp/makzan/newsletter-47 Here is a excerpt: Why I write newsletter—It’s an archive of myself This newsletter does not have much audiences, To be honest. Despite that…
Category: Writing
The FiftyThree Paper app is always advertised as a drawing app. But their text writing experience is indeed very impressive. The left/right swipe to change…
View this post on Instagram Hello Freewrite. A post shared by Thomas Mak (@makzan) on Feb 8, 2017 at 10:35pm PST It does not become…
tl;dr I moved back to Ulysses to write and manage my tasks. I have been writing in different editors. I tried the Bear writer recently.…
I’m testing the Ulysses’s new WordPress publishing ability. There are some things to test, including the categories/tags setting and embedding images as well as video…
Here is my current writing process. 1. Note-taking: iA Writer (iOS) + Log.md (Desktop) iA Writer has a convenient left/right button in tool bar. I…
I start a new email newsletter. It is called “10 Things Worth Sharing”. Every week, I hand-pick the essays / posts / tutorials I read…
I’m trying the minimal iA wordpress theme to see how it works. Ideally, I’ll be able to focus on writing only.
Here is how I write everyday. I use Drafts to write on iPhone. I share every writings to Day One, which syncs to my Mac. I collect the…
I purchased the writing application Scrivener for years. But I didn’t really get used to it. I switched to use others writing apps, namely Editorial, iA Writer,…
Two quotes from Jason Fried on writing, from issue 12 of Offscreen Magazine. I guess I’ve grown to love it [writing] because it forces me to…
I recently changed my writing tool from those distraction-free text editors[1] to code editor.[2] It’s mainly because I focus on writing technical books with code examples…
I created a simple comparison between AsciiDoc and markdown. It uses my previous article. You can find both editions in the following Gist: And here is…
I’m writing my next technical book and course material with AsciiDoc. In Mac, there is plenty of options to write the AsciiDoc with syntax highlight.…
I keep exploring different ways to write my next book. I’ve tried using Markdown, Markua, Pollen. They are all good at certain area, but none of them really…
Link: The first draft is always perfect That’s right. The first draft is always perfect. perfect. Its only job is to exist. Like minerals. Like dirt.…
I’ve been thinking not to use the blog style in my personal website—makzan.net. I think I can put all my tutorial here and keep the…
This is not a normal app review. This is about how I am using iA’s Writer Pro. How I think it fits my usage. Table of…
