{"id":8851,"date":"2014-05-21T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2014-05-21T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:18:15","slug":"why-i-prefer-nisus-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/why-i-prefer-nisus-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Prefer Nisus Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2157004\/tools-of-the-trade-why-i-prefer-nisus-writer.html\">Joe Kissell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2157004\/tools-of-the-trade-why-i-prefer-nisus-writer.html\"><p>Things turned around in 2011 with the release of Nisus Writer Pro 2.0. This was the first version of Nisus Writer to include both change-tracking and comments, plus most of my favorite features from Nisus Writer Classic and a bunch of new capabilities. All of a sudden I had my old toolkit back, in a modern package. It was as though I&rsquo;d been limited to a machete and an open fire for all my cooking needs, and then walked into a fully equipped restaurant kitchen. In the years since, it has grown even more capable and reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takecontrolbooks.com\/\">Take Control Books<\/a> switched its entire operation over to Nisus Writer Pro, and I&rsquo;ve already used it to write half a dozen books, plus new editions of several older titles. As an author, I can&rsquo;t overstate how much Nisus Writer Pro improves not only my productivity but also my attitude toward writing. It&rsquo;s fun again, and I no longer feel as though I must constantly fight with my word processor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really like Nisus Writer, but these days almost all of my writing is in reStructuredText (to be processed for product documentation), direct HTML (for online), plain text notes (for syncing with my iPhone), or in Word or Google Docs (for collaboration). Nisus Writer just doesn&rsquo;t seem to fit in, though I still find it invaluable for the occasional project where I need to <em>process<\/em> lots of styled text.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kissell: Things turned around in 2011 with the release of Nisus Writer Pro 2.0. This was the first version of Nisus Writer to include both change-tracking and comments, plus most of my favorite features from Nisus Writer Classic and a bunch of new capabilities. All of a sudden I had my old toolkit back, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,32,891,237,892],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-nisus-writer-pro","tag-restructuredtext","tag-word-processing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8857,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}