CLUB INTERVIEWS

A brief chat with friends of Club MacStories.

What are your writing workflows on the Mac and iPad and how do they differ?

I’ve been using BBEdit as my primary writing tool on the Mac for a couple of decades now. Since most of my writing is in Markdown, I could use any number of tools, but I also built the Six Colors WordPress Theme (which is PHP mixed with HTML) in BBEdit last summer, and I do other editing of HTML and CSS in BBEdit, and I use its many text utility functions all the time. Generally my feeling is, why learn a lot of different tools for these tasks if the tool I know the best can do them all?

For longform projects I use Scrivener instead, mostly because I like how Scrivener combines organizational features with its text editor. I wrote the first half of a novel in BBEdit with OmniOutliner by my side, and when I discovered Scrivener I realized that having my outline be my manuscript was a much better system.