Ecto on Notes

ecto just got better

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Mon, 09 May 2005 12:17:54 +0000

I’ve been using ecto most of my very short blogging activity. It’s easy to use, supports Markdown preview, and does what I want to do easily.

And it just got better: the latest release adds automator support to ecto (also check latest developer build with more updates). You should also install his get selected text from Safari automator script.

I’ve been collecting Automator stuff do try when I upgrade to Tiger and I’m now certain that Automator will be my most useful feature.

Making Markdown the default formatting in ecto

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:24:24 +0000

It took me some time to figure this out, so to those of you who are as dumb as me, here is how you do it:

First, go to your blog setup, and make sure Markdown is the default formatting option. In Moveable Type, you need to select Edit Configuration > Preferences > Default Text Formatting for New Entries;
go back to ecto, and choose Window > Accounts, select the blog you want, and click Update cache in the toolbar.
In my case, I also changed the ecto preferences, in Editing, the default mode to HTML. If you are going to use Markdown, you might as well change all the HTML Text colors in that pane to black.

That’s it.

Ecto2 is comming

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:08:45 +0000

There is a new version of ecto ready to be released. I’ve been using the betas for some weeks now, and I’m very happy with it.

Check out the latest features. The main one seems to be WYSIWYSG editing, but I started using Markdown a couple of days ago so I cannot say if it works or not. For me, having multiple posts at the same time, and a improved entries & drafts window are welcome additions.

My remaining problem is the trackback interface: it seems that I cannot add trackbacks with the keyboard only.

Anyway, it’s a very good release, and if you are looking for a Mac OS X app to blog (Windoze version also available), highly recommended.

New ecto release

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Wed, 26 May 2004 15:29:12 +0000

Nuno had a problem with ecto because he was using a older version of MovableType.

The latest release, 1.1.6, fixes that, so all of you using Macs out there, and need/want a blogging tool, my recommendation is ecto. Works great.

Content removed

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Thu, 20 May 2004 12:53:31 +0000

I removed this content because it talked about software that is still in beta.

I was not aware of any confidentiality clauses associated with the beta testing. If I where I would not post information regarding it.

I like the software this developer is doing, I’m a paying customer, and I intend to keep paying him for future versions. My intent was only to give some personal opinions about the software.