{"id":57,"date":"2018-05-09T22:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T22:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:02:14","slug":"writing-platform-reviews-bitbucket-usage-on-a-smart-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Writing Platform Reviews \u2013 Bitbucket \u2013 Usage on a Smart Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115203.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-59 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115203-e1525905148501-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115203-e1525905148501-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115203-e1525905148501-768x1159.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115203-e1525905148501-679x1024.png 679w, https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115203-e1525905148501.png 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a> The first test I give any writing system is how well I can write on the go.\u00a0 Laptops or computers are great for writing, but can be bulky and heavy (even the thin models) and you can&#8217;t beat the convenience of a phone.\u00a0 Personally, my setup is an Android Phone: the Google Pixel.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how this setup works on other OS&#8217;s such as the iPhone&#8217;s iOS, but I imagine it would react similarly.<\/p>\n<p>With bitbucket, there aren&#8217;t very many ways to connect using a phone.\u00a0 There is an android app called <strong>Bitbeaker<\/strong>, but I could find no way to edit files with the interface, and so I was stuck using the web version to edit files.\u00a0 The web version was pretty easy to use thankfully, but with a few caveats.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Word wrap is turned off, making paragraphs insanely long at times which forced me to scroll left and right in order to read the paragraph.\u00a0 \u00a0Thankfully if I went into edit mode, there was a word wrap option at the bottom that made this much better.\u00a0 I just wish there was a similar option in the reading view<\/li>\n<li>Occasionally, when typing, the cursor would inexplicably jump to the previous sentence.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why this is, but I imagine it is related to its programming background.\u00a0 This was not designed with novel-writing in mind.<\/li>\n<li>Needless to say, formatting is not available.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re tech<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-60 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115106-e1525905246399-170x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115106-e1525905246399-170x300.png 170w, https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115106-e1525905246399-768x1359.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115106-e1525905246399-579x1024.png 579w, https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screenshot_20180509-115106-e1525905246399.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/>-savvy, however, there&#8217;s nothing stopping you from writing your novels in, say, HTML which would get around this issue.<\/li>\n<li>There is no autosave feature when editing.\u00a0 Saving is done when you &#8220;commit&#8221; your changes by pressing a button at the bottom of the screen.\u00a0 This, again, shouldn&#8217;t be unexpected as I&#8217;m abusing a system designed for something else.<\/li>\n<li>Due to this setup&#8217;s coding focus, spell check is not available.<\/li>\n<li>The text was a bit hard to highlight and scroll on the phone&#8217;s screen, but not unusable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even with all of these issues, I still was able to quickly do edits on the train with minimal frustrations.\u00a0 Where bitbucket shone was how it handled my version history.\u00a0 I could easily go back in time, compare versions of a document (red being old, green being new), and even spin off edits out into <em>branches<\/em> that could eventually be <em>merged<\/em> back into the main novel if I felt they were good enough or scrapped if not.\u00a0 The power of this is what made me consider using this as a revision tool to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the experience is not great unless I get a bit more techy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first test I give any writing system is how well I can write on the go.\u00a0 Laptops or computers&hellip;<\/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-57","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\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyram.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}