# Initial use of Keychain between devices (from iOS to MacOS) has gone very smoothly. It was a little cumbersome to firstly get the entries in the Keychain but, once there, pulling them out on the MacBook was pretty simple and painless.
# I'm loving Jeena Paradies' TextEd, an ultra-fast, stripped down version of the built in TextEdit.app editor. It makes the perfect scratch pad - opens instantly to the editor with no messing about creating files etc.
# Even with the wealth of tools we have available for writing in Markdown and code and everything else, it's still nice to have something quick and simple to throw stuff into. This is why Notepad on Windows is still so heavily used.
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# Toilet humour, the puns!
# So, I received an email inviting me to join the Medium Partner Program and get paid for what I publish. It's because I was there at the beginning in 2012 but the email also says: "and you're still writing today..."
Yes, I'm still writing but not on Medium; my last cross-posted piece was back in May.
I'm not reading anything into it, they've likely invited a lot of the early adopters just to get a broader spectrum of writers and articles. In fact, it's quite the opposite - if they'd seen my posting habits and read anything I've recently written about Medium they'd likely never consider me for the program.
Take this statement from Ev Williams during an interview:
"We have a ton of writers on Medium, and the majority of them aren’t really our target for our partner program. We don’t want to suggest that everybody who writes should get paid or try to get paid."
That I've got an email just makes it feel like I'm a statistic, nothing more then the result of an automated date check.
And that's not how to build trust in something you're trying to build.
Regardless, I've not posted anything exclusive to Medium - barring comments - for ages; I believe in everything being available openly, for free. If it's all on my blog first why do I then want to cross-post it behind a paywall, and why would anyone choose to pay to read it there?
@colinwalker I use a Windows computer at my job and write in Notepad all day (then copy/paste into our team’s database software when I’m done).
@colinwalker I agree. Notepad with a spell checker and good (regex) search & replace would be a fantastic little editor
@BestofTimes Agreed, but just something that opens really quick is key.
@colinwalker If you're a chrome user, check out this extension. Same idea... quickly open a text editor (this extension makes every new tab a text editor) tinyapps.com.au > WriteTab. His Saved.io is also aces, imho.
@cm Thanks. I tend to stick to Safari but saved.io could be worth a look ?
@colinwalker @cm I've a bookmarklet that open a new tab I can type in. No save just for temporary stuff. Trying to cut down on the number of untitled texts file I have open;)
@colinwalker My only issue with something like saved.io is, how does it make money? Storage and server bandwidth inevitably cost money. Pinboard has a working business model; so much so, Maciej bought Delicious. Longevity is something I try to consider with web services.
@retrophisch That's a very valid concern.