A smallish part of the reasons for lack of more and longer blogposts here and elsewhere is the awkwardness of using the software. I think I may have fixed that.
I haven’t ever shelled out for one of the premier clients - partly because they don’t necessarily keep up with the things I want to do on the net. For instance, had I been using a paid-for client that dind’t support tags when I started using Wordpress, I’d have been stuck with an obsolete tool.
But free clients aren’t necessarily better, and I periodically do a search for improved tools for the job. For the last year or so I’ve used the Firefox ScribeFire plugin, as it’s both straightforward and multi-featured. ScribeFire’s main limitation is that it’s a Firefox plugin, which means it’s slow… very slow.
After fiddling about with yesterday’s post, I decided to see what might be out there on the ‘net, and found that Zoundry (now known as Raven) had gone open source and updated versions from the 0.9.284 I’d previously tried to1.0.375. It looked quite different in the screenshot, and, even better, it works quite differently as well! It looks more like a full-fledged page editor.
It seems to have created a filestore in my Windows profile folder, and tracks my links and images separately as well.
I’m liking this enough that I’ll give it a spin - as I’m doing just now - to see if ScribeFire joins the list of obsolete clients.
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