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Dec 15, 2008
MarsEdit to Quills, quick MetaWeblog workaround
Adding description to Quills posts via MarsEdit
Just figured this out. I use MarsEdit to post entries to my Quills (on Plone) blog, and I'm not sure why, but theres' no implementation of the description/excerpt field in MarsEdit. OOB, there's no obvious way to include a document description, but I found this by playing around:
- In the markup pulldown, click on 'Edit...'
- Click the '+' in the new window to add a new style attribute
- Give your style a name and put an h2 tag with class="QuillsExcerpt" in the Opening field and a /h2 tag in the Closing field.
- Wrap your description in these tags. Quills/Plone will read what's in the h2 as your document description (and move the copy to that field in the edit view).
Dec 10, 2008
Thinking about workflow, part 1: The problem
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Especially in the last year, I've accumulated a whole slew of apps and processes that are supposedly helping me to save time and keep connected, yada yada. This thread follows my attempt to narrow everything to the bare minimum.
This list sound familiar?
- Facebook, Myspace and twitter
- Friendfeed, feedalizr, and now moodblast
- blip, YouTube, archive.org
- Tumblr, my own Quills blog
- 6-8 mailing lists
- Yojimbo, Evernote, OmniFocus
- iBlogger, MarsEdit
- Mail.app, Gmail
- me.com albums, flickr, picasa
- Google reader
OK, so the objective is this:
- write/post things the fewest number of times,
- making them visible the most number of places
- using the fewest applications/processes
- maintaining the most metadata and formatting
- without creating any duplicates entries anywhere
