2010-08-29T14:12:50-07:00 http://davedash.com/ Dave Dash dd+atom1@davedash.com 2007-02-24T00:00:00-08:00 http://davedash.com/2007/02/24/marsedit <p>[tags]MarsEdit,software,blogs[/tags]</p> <p>I recently read about the acquisition of <a href="http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/">MarsEdit</a> by Red Sweater Software so I decided to check it out. I'm quite glad I did it does make my workflow a lot easier. What I had been doing up until today was this:</p> <ol> <li>I'd come up with an idea.</li> <li>Open up my writings project in <a href="http://macromates.com/">TextMate</a></li> <li>Open a new file and start typing ideas, etc.</li> <li>Find the right blog to post it on (e.g. <a href="http://spindrop.us/">Spindrop</a>, <a href="http://davedash.com/">davedash.com</a>, <a href="http://yumbo.reviewsby.us/">yumbo the reviewsBy.us blog</a> or <a href="http://twincities.metblogs.com/">Metroblogging</a>).</li> <li>Login to the blog.</li> <li>Cut and paste titles, categories, tags, etc.</li> </ol> <p>It was easy to drop my blogging habbit ;)</p> <p>Now, I can do this: 1. Come up with my idea. 2. Select which blog I want to post it in. 3. Write my idea. 4. When it's ready to go live, just hit submit to blog.</p> <p>The one slight problem I have is I use a tags feature of wordpress in addition to categories (not sure why I don't just use categories, but that's another story), currently there's no easy way to deal with WordPress plugins' custom fields that I know of. So there's an optional 5th step of examining the post on the site and possibly adding tags.</p> <p>Still, these 4 steps are easy and all done from one app. It also features a preview of your post that you can customize per blog with a custom HTML template. Which makes it easy to just drop your blog's style sheet and see if your post looks right.</p> <p>Definitely looks like a keeepr!</p>