MarsEdit 2.0.3

October 23, 2007

After a long time of realizing how much it sucks to back date entries in Wordpress (especially if you’re using the Firefox Expandable Form Fields extension) and trying to remember the passwords of a whole bunch of different blogs that are powered by various systems, I downloaded MarsEdit 2.0.3 last night just to check it out.

Yesterday’s Evaluating RSS Readers post was authored using this software. I added 50 Words to it and played around with it last night (which resulted in my staying up a little too late).

I have no idea how I got along without it. Occasionally, posting on blogs, particularly from my on-again-off-again wifi connection at home, is slow enough that it inspires me to put an entry in a Ta-da Lists to get around to the post later. With MarsEdit, I can save things as drafts, mess around with an entry or idea on the train.

I like that I can manage multiple blogs from one interface. I enjoy the fact that I can edit all the fields from this same interface and that I can tab to the month, date, and time in the date fields. The only thing that gives me pause is that I use the Textile 2 Plugin on one of my blogs and the post list doesn’t interpret those posts.

The inline Technorati tags are nifty and the fact that it’s scriptable means that if I’m ever terribly ambitious, I could write something amusing. Fortunately, other people have beat me to the punch.

See?

Currently playing in iTunes: Friday the 13th by Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins

Posted by Lee
Filed in Nifty, Technica
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3 Responses to “MarsEdit 2.0.3”

  1. Daniel Jalkut Says:
    October 24th, 2007 at 09:32 UTC

    Hi Lee – glad you found MarsEdit and that you’re finding it valuable! When you say the post list doesn’t interpret the Textile 2 posts – does that mean the Textile filter built-in to MarsEdit doesn’t work well with Textile 2?

    Thanks for your feedback,
    Daniel

  2. Lee Says:
    October 27th, 2007 at 11:09 UTC

    It was my unfamiliarity with MarsEdit’s preview mode. I clicked Preview and nothing. Then, I noticed the drop down menu (“Preview Text Filter”). Aha!

    This is the only blog I’m using Textile on and I’m by no means a rockstar. I’m used to HTML.

    (For the record, I use hReview Microformats on 50 Words and it works fabulously in MarsEdit, much faster than the WordPress Write form, especially in backdating procrastinated reviews.)

    Thanks for your response. When my trial period ends, I will definitely be buying MarsEdit. I was planning on doing a comparison between MarsEdit and other software on the market, but I struggle to imagine what features any other software could feasibly have that could best MarsEdit.

    Thanks also for your software. Keep up the good work.

  3. Daniel Jalkut Says:
    November 15th, 2007 at 21:48 UTC

    Hi Lee – sorry for the late reply :) I don’t have a good technique yet for following up on comments I leave on blogs :)

    I’m glad to hear the situation was helped with the preview text filter option. I think I could definitely make that feature a bit more obvious, because it confuses a lot of people.

    I really appreciate your kinds words about MarsEdit and the work I’ve put into it.

    Daniel

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