Back in December I bookmarked a post on James Coffee Blog titled “My Writing Setup.” The post outlines one writing set-up and invites people to share their own via webmention. My writing set-up for full articles over at The New Leaf Journal is similar to when I wrote about my writing workflow in December 2021. I draft my articles in markdown using Ghostwriter and then export them into LibreOffice Writer (as .odt files) for final edits and transfer to WordPress. Since the 2021 article, I have added Yoga Image Optimizer to my workflow for compressing images and now use Shotwell instead of Nomacs for basic image edits. On this more humble site, I usually use the WordPress editor (note I use the classic editor) here instead of drafting the posts externally. There are some ancillary components of my workflow. For example, why am I responding to a post from 10 months ago? At some point, I saved it in a folder I created in my Zotero library for future article ideas.
My Writing Set-Up
At this week’s Homebrew Website Club, I asked everyone what tools they use for writing. Participants shared a range of tools, from BBEdit, a text editor for macOS, to “Written? Kitten!”, a web-based text editor that shows a photo of a cat after you have written a certain number of words. Delig...