workflow notepad to blogger.

Are we connected now, looks like we are.

The last time that I worked on this was in 2007. At that time I was using a very convoluted workflow. OpenOffice to Notepad to blogger. I am not sure why I didn't want to go straight to blogger. And the draft that I have from them doesn't say why. It does say that Microsoft Word and OpenOffice both introduced strange formatting.

I am fairly sure that I did not have Dragon speaking naturally at that time. In the intervening five years I've used Dragon speaking naturally number nine, Windows speech recognition, Dragon speaking naturally number 10, Windows speech recognition again, and now Dragon speaking naturally number 11 on a more powerful computer. The last combination works without a lot of training of either me or the computer. It just works out-of-the-box.

The only problem at the moment are the two grandchildren talking in the background. The software keeps wanting me to say that again.

I am sitting out in the yard with my laptop. The Wi-Fi usually connects but not right now. So I'm dictating to Notepad we will see how it imports to blogger in a minute. Later I will go inside and try dictating direct into blogger. I also have a WordPress blog and we'll see what works best with it.

I need to use the simplest most direct workflow. My best time to write will be first thing in the morning before I go to work. The biggest problem that I see is that my wife is sleeping 15 feet away from my desk. The kitchen table would add another 15 feet and a doorway. This table out in the yard would definitely be far enough away that I would not be waking her up.

Well I see that I now have Internet access. I believe that I will connect to weblog and see how copy paste works.

Ended up coming inside to connect to the net. That may end up being the deciding factor on using Notepad. No formatting issues that I see.

new workflow

well I just got done posting a five-year-old draft The intervening years have seen some changes I now have Dragon speaking naturally version 11 installed on a HP laptop.  I'm now looking for simplest most direct route to posting.

my biggest problem at the moment is that I have three grandchildren out here helping. if they say something from 3 feet away Dragon wants me to repeat that. I'm also having to stop and correct them. Just now I had to tell the seven-year-old not climb a tree with a rope wrapped around his neck. Dictating straight into blogger seems to be working fairly well.

Dragon doesn't seem to want to capitalize initial word sentence. I think I will post this and see how it looks.

Work Flow

Possible work-flow:

Gedit/NotePad saved to G drive. reworked/edited. copy/past and himked/edited. Copy/paste into Blogger

Compose in Blogger. Save as draft. Rework/edit. Post.

Any one of the three will work, I need to try them and see which I actually do use. All work done in Blogger will be the simplest but I don't think I want to hold way rough thought fragments in blogger draft. Not sure that I will ever get back to them.

Right now I am writing using OpenOffice under Vista. Several things that I like about OpenOffice. Set font size to 18 where I can comfortably read it. I get to use the full screen instead of just a little 3 X4 inch window. I can work on, open, and save a document under both Vista and Ubuntu.

Four months ago when I tried doing the copy paste from OpenOffice to Blogger it showed a bunch of formating gobbledy gook. Had to paste into a text editor such as NotePad or Gedit and then copy paste from there. Yesterday when I was experimenting I could go direct from OpenOffice to Blogger no problems.him him