2 days ago
deusx : Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater - "You put this stuff in without any plan, yet, like all good atoms, they form themselves into molecules."
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2 month ago
deusx : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - "I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book that’s hierarchically organized like this. "
Jeremy Zawodny : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?: 'You can cut your work down by about 75% if you keep working on more and more detailed outlines, long past the point you think you ought to start “writing.”' True. Lots of good stuff in that
Simon Willison : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?. Plenty of food for thought from the lead author of the new edition of High Performance MySQL. It’s amazing how Word is still an integral part of most technical book projects despite its obvious inadequacies
philgyford : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - Great write-up of what it was really like to write a big complicated book, managed by rather disorganised people. (via Simon Willison)
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18 month ago
deusx : Twitter trail - Scripting News: 2/20/2007 - Twitter + Outlining = Instant Outlining NG? "Then it occurred to me that Twitter and the outlining tool would probably be nice when used together, which led me to wonder if Twitter had an API, which it turns out it does."
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20 month ago
43folders : 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos - And how about this: make a deal with yourself to _DO_ five items on your current list for each new geegaw you want to play with. Earn your right to fiddle.
deusx : Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos « - "Here are 20 different ways of tracking your to dos, with examples of each."
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21 month ago
deusx : Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: ANN: HyperScope 1.1 Released! - "Hi everyone! I'm proud to announce the release of HyperScope 1.1."
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deusx : Tom Morris: Opath - a tool to popularise a concept - "You want to include an OPML node inside your outline. The problem is that you want to get just one node from an outline and include it. Here's where Opath comes in."
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deusx : The first coming of outlining - The Doc Searls Weblog : Thursday, June 22, 2006 - "Outlining, I've lately been thinking, is something best suited to the writing environment we call the Web."
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33 month ago
merlinmann : macosxhints - 10.4: Start lists in TextEdit via the keyboard - TextEdit in Tiger has basic outlining functionality. [Thanks, Robert Daeley]
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