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Who uses, recommends or left Byword, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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For writing articles for my website, I compose in Byword, which is a Markdown text editor. (I like it because it syncs between my Apple devices.
Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.
2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗
I favor Byword for prose, Scrivener for larger, more structured projects and TextMate for everything else.
His written "Uses This" interview, listing his top-of-mind favourite tools for coding, writing, music and automation.
2011-12-02·usesthis.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.