WriteBoard is intended for collaboration, which means that it’s intended purpose is to write quantifiable data and share that with other people who can contribute. I’m in complete disagreement with you for one simple reason, writeboard is _not_ WriteRoom and is _not_ stickies. Writers that choose otherwise apparently care more about their own writing experience than their readers’ reading experience. In short, a truly reader-focused writer wants the most control possible over the text, and then wants to see the text just as the reader will see it- WYSIWYG. A reader-focused writer wants to ensure that the reader isn’t annoyed, confused, or repulsed by any aspect of the look of the text, right down to the serifs on the font. A reader-focused writer knows that a reader is extremely visual, and will want to use text size, weight, color, and whitespace to prioritize the content so that the important points are understood even if the rest is skimmed. That’s because many writers don’t care to see their text the way their readers will- for them, the text is the goal, the reader is just the excuse to justify the self-indulgence of writing.īut for writers who find it more important to achieve a purpose with their writing than to write for its own sake, then the focus is on the act of READING, not writing. Many writers seem to think of the stream of words as their sole tool- formatting is an afterthought. And when you’re about to write that’s all you should be ready to do: write. When you sit down to one of those you’re ready to write. Writing tools like Writeboard and the pleasantly austere WriteRoom (for Mac OS X) take their cues from blank pieces of paper or typewriters. Once you’ve got the words right you can take that text and process it in a word processor or page layout program later. The keyboard and the return key is all you need. Just hiding the icon-crazy toolbar won’t do it either - the temptation to bring it back is too strong. Either bolding this or italicizing that or centering the headline or inserting a table or tweaking the margins or changing the font and sizes or adding color or… That’s word processing or page layout. It’s taking what you’ve written and doing stuff with it. That’s because it’s a writing tool, not a word processor. One of the criticisms we get from time to time about Writeboard is that it doesn’t have WYSIWYG formatting or fancy layout tools. A world of difference between writing and word processing Jason 52 comments
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