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Always have written markdown without preview and hoped that it looked right when I commited it.
Edit: Or on edge cases I have used remarkable[1], which I have found ages ago. I don't even know how """good""" it is, but I like its simplicity.
I'm getting a little bit of anxiety just reading about this. I hate typing on phone especially if the text haa symbols mixed in. I mistype a lot more often on phone and often somehow skip entire words. (Don't know what the cause of this is.) I am guessing they using some specialised keyboard that makes it easier to type symbols etc.
There's some okay text editors for Android, Hacker's Keyboard (which I still use) and of course Termux. The tools are all there, but when I tried to write simple little scripts on mobile, it was all the nightmare I thought it would be.
Been using smartphone touchscreens for a decade+ now and still feel like an old man that just can't get used to this new-fangled way of doing things. You can look back at my comment history to see the types of errors my brain, thumbs and far-sighted eyes love to produce. I honestly do not know what I was thinking when I decided to practice code on these devices, but that quickly ended.
Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone, type in the address bar, then hit . Later I synch them along with the other tabs when I have access to the desktop. This routine developed totally unintentionally and has been somehow more productive than all the fancy notetaking apps I'd used. Maybe it's something about the claustrophobically tiny input slot that makes me want to widen it as much…
The Painted Man is a novel that was mostly written on the author's Blackberry while riding the train to work. https://www.geeknative.com/6955/the-painted-man-written-on-a...
As always, the Japanese has us beaten. Cell phone novels has been a thing for over 20 years and they were originally written using numpad cellphones. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel
This sounds like actual torture, and the madman inflicted it on himself. Kudos, I guess?
He's a kid from Bangladesh who is studying and isn't even in uni yet. He's mentioned on reddit that his parents are doing the classical asian parent thing of pushing him to become a doctor or engineer and right now he's busy studying for the medical entry exam. If he doesn't get through that he might consider a computer science thing. So basically the whole neovim plugin is a side quest at the moment. Always boggles…
Edit: Seems like there is an open issue [1] to get him a PC to code on. Just one more reason why I love the community.
Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone, type in the address bar, then hit . Later I synch them along with the other tabs when I have access to the desktop. This routine developed totally unintentionally and has been somehow more productive than all the fancy notetaking apps I'd used. Maybe it's something about the claustrophobically tiny input slot that makes me want to widen it as much…
That's even crazier than my habit of writing notes in macOS TextEdit and never saving them. (Currently at "Untitled 235")
Also, I have access to all of them on my phone via Files app and the iCloud sync, this is surprisingly practical.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Control_(macOS)
The Painted Man is a novel that was mostly written on the author's Blackberry while riding the train to work. https://www.geeknative.com/6955/the-painted-man-written-on-a...
I had a Nokia qwerty phone, and, man, it was such a superior way to type portably. I wish they still sell those kinds of phone... Like computer keyboards, it also had a ctrl key. That means that I can ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy paste.
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As always, the Japanese has us beaten. Cell phone novels has been a thing for over 20 years and they were originally written using numpad cellphones. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel
Physical discomforts of writing a novel on a smartphone aside, I am trying to wrap my head around trying to do the same with a device that needs T9 as input. I type slow on a touchscreen as it is, frequently losing my train of thought before I can get my whole comment out, the comments themselves often turning into meandering adventures in Fuzzy Logic Land as a result. I cannot imagine banging one out on a number pad…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
As always, the Japanese has us beaten. Cell phone novels has been a thing for over 20 years and they were originally written using numpad cellphones. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel
Physical discomforts of writing a novel on a smartphone aside, I am trying to wrap my head around trying to do the same with a device that needs T9 as input. I type slow on a touchscreen as it is, frequently losing my train of thought before I can get my whole comment out, the comments themselves often turning into meandering adventures in Fuzzy Logic Land as a result. I cannot imagine banging one out on a number pad…