Does anyone know of a PDF reader than will show three pages side by side? And allow the right arrow to flip forward by one page on each press?
I believe SumatraPDF could do this.
Write thin to write fast
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Re: Write thin to write fast
#12Anyone know of a vim or NeoVim setting or add-on to do this?
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#13I will add that it’s also useful to have as much text as possible so you can see the flow, the context and the “context of the context.” But I find this insight more or less convincing so I guess the ideal writing screen is thin and tall. Sadly, that’s the opposite of what horizontal monitors encourage. This might be another benefit of physical notebooks.
+1 about the tall and narrow, especially for editing.
I used to work from my friend's office who has these giant monitor that can pivot 90 degrees and I was easily 1.5x or 2x more productive given how much text was on the screen (almost and entire section of the book), and so I didn't have to scroll much...
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#14Does anyone know how to get the narrow column at the center of the screen in full screen mode pictured in the article using vim settings? see https://breckyunits.com/writeThin.png
I tried :set textwidth=, but that gives left aligned so not quite the same...
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#15Anyone know of a vim or NeoVim setting or add-on to do this?
Goyo + VimPencil
Re: Write thin to write fast
#16Does anyone know how to get the narrow column at the center of the screen in full screen mode pictured in the article using vim settings? see https://breckyunits.com/writeThin.png I tried :set textwidth= , but that gives left aligned so not quite the same...
Probably Goyo. It's a vim plugin.
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#17Interesting. The tradeoff is of course that the wider columns are the more you're able to see at once, which is also important for editing.
I wonder whether it would be useful to be able change the column width with a keyboard shortcut. That way you could use small columns when you want to focus on the details and bigger columns when you want to focus on the big picture, both in writing and reading.
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#18Reminded me of the "Rules of Comfortable Measure", from The Elements of Typographic Style, quoted here:
http://webtypography.net/2.1.2
I always find myself fighting this on practically every website.
But it makes sense to me, that this should be something we think about in, well, most of our editors as well.
I debate about the measure of code, but I do find 100 to be a reasonable fit for most languages. The problem, is that I want code at 100, and then comments at 66. Oh well.
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#20I also find paragraph length affects my reading speed and focus.
When a paragraph is too long I tend to skim past it, even though the same paragraph split into a few smaller paragraphs would have the same word count.