As much as I love MacJournal, the beta version hasn’t worked out the kinks when it comes to posting to blogs. For some mysterious reason all of my apostrophes turn into “?” question marks. Understandably it is a beta.
After awhile I decided, enough is enough. Time to try something new! Get this issue fixed. After using Netnewswire I realized it had the ability to post directly to a blog through a program called MarsEdit. Intrigued I investigated further.
The download was easy enough. MarsEdit’s website had MacWorld’s 4 star right on there. I said to myself, “Well if MacWorld gives it 4 stars it must be good.” Sure there was a price tag except if it was anything like other 4 star software (i.e. my favourite Omnioutliner Pro program for example) then it must do a fantastic job.
So now I’m writing this extra post of the day, commenting on it. Blessed be! No problem with my apostrophes turning into question marks. Feature by feature, MarsEdit is definitely the specialist master of blog posting.
1. MarsEdit has a preview Window! Thank goodness. Now I can see what everything actually looks like. Interesting how it does the spacing between 1 and 2. Had to type an extra space to get 2 on the next line.
2. Doing tags is easy as pie. Unlike MacJournal’s checkmarking system, MarsEdit uses a smart word method like Mail. It remembers past tags you’ve typed and helps you finish the process off fast.
MacJournal’s Method
MarsEdit’s Method
Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Tagging wasn’t starting to be a pain.
3. Uploading photos is a breeze. MarsEdit does it for you pretty easily too. MacJournal allows you to insert photos directly into the post however it doesn’t upload at all. It’ll only work if you insert the file directly from your desktop into the post. Weird.
With MarsEdit however you can’t insert directly into the post. What it does is upload the file directly into your blog space (very good with WordPress) and insert an html link into your post. With the preview you’ll see where your picture is in the post.
4. Categorizing posts is a lot easier. The current beta of MacJournal has some glitches with categorizing – it doesn’t work and all my WordPress posts stay Uncategorized. MarsEdit does work and even gives me the option of creating new categories straight from the interface! Fantastic.
What MarsEdit doesn’t have that MacJournal does is the ability to upload the same post to multiple blogs. With MarsEdit, I can only have one draft per blog. If I want to post the same post to another blog I have to re-copy the whole draft and possibly do all the tags.
I’m investigating that.
Anyways, I’m glad I’m over this apostrophe mess.
Fair winds, light song,
Sunny
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