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Window and tab support: I work on a lot of documents, partly while juggling multiple TidBITS articles, but even more so in my role as president of the Finger Lakes Runners Club, which relies heavily on Google Docs and Google Sheets for administration, collaboration, and recordkeeping. Plus, I always switch to my primary word processor from wherever I am in other apps by pressing F1-that’s a Keyboard Maestro macro now, but I’ve been doing this since before Keyboard Maestro existed.Īpart from the core desire to turn Google Docs into a standalone app, I have several other requirements: (“Hi, my name is Adam, and I’m a tabaholic.”) As a result, I’ve always run Google Docs in a site-specific browser (SSB)-a utility that lets you turn a particular site or set of sites into a standalone app that has its own identity in the Dock, the App Switcher, and so on. That’s unacceptable for me since I often have multiple documents open along with way too many tabs for pages that I need to read, refer back to, or act on. Of course, Google Docs is a Web app, and by default, it would nestle in among all the other tabs in a Web browser. And when we migrated to our current WordPress-based content management system (see “ Next-Generation TidBITS Infrastructure in the Works,” 20 November 2017), we switched to doing all of our article writing and editing in Google Docs, which offers top-notch collaboration capabilities. #GOOGLE DOCS MAC CODE#
During our BBEdit years, we switched the collaboration side to the Subversion version control system, essentially treating our text like code (see “ Wanted: Better Document Collaboration System,” 3 April 2006). When we used Nisus Writer Classic, we also relied on a fileserver running AppleShare over IP to collaborate on files using a classic IN (available for editing) and OUT (checked out by someone) folder/versioning/renaming scheme. Precisely which app we rely on for TidBITS has changed over the years, starting with Nisus Writer Classic, then BBEdit, and now Google Docs. The Best Mac Site-Specific Browser for Google DocsĪs a writer, I live in my word processor.
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