I’m having another look at MacJournal to see if it’ll work as my personal diary tool and also as a blog editing tool. I’m writing this entry using v4.1d4, which is the latest available development build from Dan Schimpf. The editor is nice. Probably a bit better than ecto form a Macintosh GUI perspective.
I was able to download all 190 entries from my Soapbox okay after pointing it at the base URL. When I tried this in a previous version it only downloaded a subset of them. Not sure if that was as result of something I did wrong or the program itself.
In theory I should be able to use this one program to compose and store both personal entries and public entries for the Soapbox. Anyone want to take bets on how long it’ll be before a private entry gets posted here 🙂
Here is a screen grab of this entry being composed in MacJournal. If picture uploading is working then you’ll be able to see it. If not I’ll need to do some more tweaking!
Click on picture for larger view
Update: Obviously pictures are being scaled to fit the column width. Have to fix that. Three options:
• Find out if MacJournal can mimic the behaviour of ecto. The latter will include a thumbnail of the image in the post and will display the image in a new window when it’s double clicked. This would be my preference for a fix.
• Amend the CSS templates for the WordPress theme to stop images being scaled. If anyone knows how to do this post in the comments.
• Change the WordPress scheme to not use a single centred column. Might be time to go to a normal full window width theme anyway.
Update 2: The images are okay in the RSS feed from the site. Which is how everyone reads blogs anyway! Right?
Update 3: I’ve edited the picture to make it a thumbnail with a link to the larger version.