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> And what do we do with our ideas when they arise? Well, we scroll to the bottom of the document and jot them down, copy and paste them, rearrange them, and ho
by SCLeo 4y ago
> And what do we do with our ideas when they arise? Well, we scroll to the bottom of the document and jot them down, copy and paste them, rearrange them, and hope we'll remember to come back to them.
I write erotic novels as a hobby. I legit thought no one else does this (putting random unorganized ideas at the bottom of the document). I am genuinely pleased to know I am not the only one.
- gcr 4y agoI do that too! It’s nice to have some “scratch space” at the end, like an artists’ palette to dab colors from. Ideas naturally flow from scratch to outline to fleshed-out paragraphs this way.
- naet 4y agoI used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other.
- lelanthran 4y ago> I used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other. Ditto, except that I use Vim on a single file with vertical splits, so that that I have different parts of the same file in view at the same time. With a large monitor I typically have 3x vertical splits on the same file.
- fluxinflex 4y agoI do this too with my iA writer windows - 3 columns with various ideas and texts. What I found is that the slim width of each window helps me to write better. Broad windows with their endlessly long lines made me loss focus on what I was writing. Perhaps it comes from me being a 80-character line limit programmer and have always limited the width of my editor.
- corwinstephen 4y agoI was too! I hope the way we've done it solves the problem!
- copper-float 4y agoGot any previews of your work? Lol.