{"id":54,"date":"2018-05-08T22:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2018-05-08T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T22:13:58","slug":"writing-platform-reviews-bitbucket-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Writing Platform Reviews – Bitbucket – Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been searching for a writing application that can do everything that I want when writing a novel.\u00a0 Being sick of Microsoft Word’s limitations, I decided to explore the different options available currently.\u00a0 \u00a0The main conditions I have:<\/p>\n

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  1. Inexpensive – The typical writer doesn’t have a lot of money<\/li>\n
  2. Versioning – The application has to be able to show me a history of edits and be able to recover between them<\/li>\n
  3. Availability – My writing should be available on my laptop, phone, or wherever I go.<\/li>\n
  4. Expandable – Ideally, I’d be able to store notes, charts, diagrams, and other drawings as well as organise them in a sensible way so I can refer back to them easily<\/li>\n
  5. Easy to Use – The system needs to get out of my way and let me write.\u00a0 Little annoyances with a setup can quickly get in the way of my writing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Keeping these things in mind, I’ll start with my first test: Bitbucket.\u00a0 \u00a0For those who haven’t heard of it before, Bitbucket is a website (https:\/\/bitbucket.org<\/a>) that is typically used to store code for programs and websites.\u00a0 It almost definitely isn’t what most people think of when writing novels.<\/p>\n

    As a developer, I use such programs often in my work, and so I can see the benefits of such a system, and decided to try it out in helping me revise my novel.\u00a0 While this may be too complex for most writers out there, it may be a perfect fit for some.\u00a0 Signing up for the service was free, and I created a private repository for my novel.\u00a0 Uploading the chapters was easy, and soon I was looking at a nice list of my chapters.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>Each chapter was split into a separate file to keep things simple, and they were saved as text files so I could easily edit them.\u00a0 I tried uploading ODT (libreoffice) files, but bitbucket (expectedly) couldn’t deal with opening and versioning these files.\u00a0 \u00a0Since my main goal was just revising sentence-level stuff, this didn’t bother me so much.\u00a0 Formatting would come later.<\/p>\n

    Now that it’s setup, I’m going to edit my novel using this method for a week to see if it meets my needs.\u00a0 I’ll report back with my findings as I go along.\u00a0 Tomorrow, I’ll talk about how this setup worked on my phone for writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve been searching for a writing application that can do everything that I want when writing a novel.\u00a0 Being sick…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}