Time to read: 4 minutes Forget the jetpack. Where is my idea-to-blog app? Seriously. What does it take to note, write, edit, and publish in one place? And why is it so hard to write away from a computer? I don’t have the time to write anymore. And I think that tech is partially responsible for this, as I am […] continue reading »
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how I always know what to blog about next
Time to read: 2 minutes There are several tricks writers use to make sure they know what to write about next. This is mine. […] continue reading »
how important are grammar and spelling?
Time to read: 2 minutes I will stop reading after the third spelling mistake. Maybe I am too old to read random blogs. Do spelling and grammar matter to everyone? […] continue reading »
my new blog reading tool: bloglovin
Time to read: < 1 minute I’ve just started using bloglovin for reading my blogs. (this is useful for me, you can ignore it: phsyejt6wfk) It’s something like a cross between flipboard and google reader (and it can import google reader’s collection of feeds). You can also follow my exintaris.com blog with Bloglovin. […] continue reading »
smart writers guide their readers’ skimming habits
Time to read: 2 minutes how often do you read a full blog post? If I’m honest with myself, I only read a full blog post about one out of ten times. I’ll start out faithfully taking in all the words, then I’ll get bored, or rushed, and I’ll skip a line, then two, then before I know it, I’ve […] continue reading »
Here are the insides of my notebook. How do you work?
Time to read: 3 minutes My friend Peter Warwick-Mahoney, web developer extraordinaire (and a fairly awesome human, too) just tweeted about how a lot of his work starts on the back of an envelope, challenging the twittersphere to reply “how do _you_ work?”. I love learning about how people get things done, and quite fancied writing a reply longer than […] continue reading »
Exintaris.com now has a blog!
Time to read: < 1 minute So I’ve decided that I like writing quite a lot, and i should have a platform for storing said writings. My confabulations and findings will henceforth reside on exintaris.com, with varied amounts of verbosity and pedantic prose. You aren’t, by any means, requested or expected to read any of these meanderings. If you do, however, […] continue reading »