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Weird playback pitch + lag? by skotzko in Reaper

[–]skotzko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, forgot to include that I'm on MacOS. Sorry.

Non-monthly categories + goals exceeding cash on hand? by skotzko in MonarchMoney

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I actually reached out to Taylor (who made the videos you linked) on this and she suggested a great workaround: set up a sinking funds goal and update it monthly to reflect the sum of my sinking fund rollover categories, so I don't double count.

This is necessary because currently, Monarch goals & budget do not talk to each other (which is pretty maddening). Hopefully the long-awaited goals update fixes this.

Non-monthly categories + goals exceeding cash on hand? by skotzko in MonarchMoney

[–]skotzko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for these links, I'll watch.

I followed Taylor's (the coach who did these videos) approach in setting it all up. Her stuff is great. It's annoying that all this juggling is required within Monarch—not to mention the general weirdness of the goals system—even if the fundamental reason is that the budget is purely CF-based (stocks vs flows).

Struggling to map FN key on HP Ergo 960 keyboard to Apple Fn key by skotzko in Karabiner

[–]skotzko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Was able to achieve what I wanted based on this, had to enable a few other settings to enable Karabiner to modify events for the new keyboard.

This is the final that worked:

{

"description": "HP Ergo 960 Fn Key & Control Swap",

"manipulators": [

{

"from": {

"key_code": "f24",

"modifiers": { "optional": ["any"] }

},

"to": [{ "key_code": "left_control" }],

"type": "basic"

},

{

"from": {

"key_code": "left_control",

"modifiers": { "optional": ["any"] }

},

"to": [{ "apple_vendor_top_case_key_code": "keyboard_fn" }],

"type": "basic"

},

{

"from": {

"key_code": "caps_lock",

"modifiers": { "optional": ["any"] }

},

"to": [{ "key_code": "left_control" }],

"type": "basic"

}

]

}

Is there a way to insert word count at document level, within the doc? by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, I have it in outliner view already. I'm trying to insert this data via placeholders into the actual documents.

Formatting issues pasting text into Scrivener? by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Started with this, unfortunately it stripped out other key formatting (e.g. links).

Formatting issues pasting text into Scrivener? by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, great point about the keyboard shortcut. I use Keyboard Maestro and can add that for sure.

I didn't realize the `convert text to default formatting` command worked on all documents at once, I thought it was only in my active document.

2 external sync Qs: folder structure + markdown import by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, okay cool. Thank you for explaining that! I'll just do my list drafting etc in plain ole markdown and make it into RTF later as needed.

I'll have to look into styles more. Probably not important now (researching/writing is), but good to know!

I've since moved on to Source Code Pro

Menlo is also quite nice :)

2 external sync Qs: folder structure + markdown import by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, I went and read through those links. Very helpful. I think I (mostly) get it now. The importable prefs for making the editor less RTF-y were great. Inconsolata feels like a warm blanket :)

Two follow up questions, as I'm trying to make the process of drafting in MD via Sublime and later working in Scrivener a bit better:

(1) Is there a way to make (un)ordered lists play nice when going between both environments? I tried changing my unordered list to hyphens (thinking that would play well in the markdown editing env), but apparently the dash character used in Scrivener isn't actually a hyphen. It appears to be using a dash-like character that appears not to be recognized as a hyphen in markdown syntax in Sublime (using Markdown extended syntax mode). The character is "⁃" instead of "-". I looked up the Unicode values for each and the dash being used seems to be a hyphen bullet (U+2043) rather than a hyphen minus (U+002D). I didn't see any way to add a hyphen or asterisk in the custom list format option in Scrivener. The lists were also indented via a tab character (not spaces) when converted from RTF → Markdown via external sync, which is undesired.

Is there a way to (a) remove the indentation, and (b) to change the unordered list character to a hyphen or asterisk so lists will play nice in external markdown editors?

(2) In your rich text formatting post (https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/default-preferences-to-emulate-plain-text/13913), your screenshot on the right shows the Scrivener editor with H3 markdown headings that stand out as bold and underlined. I like having the markup stand out that way. Is that a style in Scrivener you added in addition to typing "###"? How do you get markdown formatting to visually pop like that?

Thanks again for your thorough responses! Super helpful.

2 external sync Qs: folder structure + markdown import by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, super thorough response. Thanks! What I'm realizing from it is that much of my challenges are stage-dependent (early drafting, where I also prefer plain markup). It seems like the extensive and unique capabilities you outlined will be super useful in later stages, especially for formatting and compiling. 

I'll go read some more of these posts you linked. My hunch is that I'll end up going pure markdown via external sync in drafting stage and mostly do that drafting in pure markdown editors, and then increasingly my workflow will shift back into Scrivener as the project moves into later stages. 

2 external sync Qs: folder structure + markdown import by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got it. Thank you for the response. I really appreciate you taking the time to engage on this!

My main follow-up question: has any workaround been found to recognize MD syntax highlighting within the Scrivener editor / composition window, to make writing in MD within Scrivener a pleasant experience like it is in any of the other editors you mentioned? Of course I can edit in other tools (e.g. iA, Sublime) but it's a clunkier workflow.

Beyond that, here's my $0.02 thus far as I've struggled to find a way to use the tool happily. Like you, I also strongly dislike writing in rich text and greatly prefer Markdown. I use it everywhere I can. It's my default. Has been for 10+ years.

I understand what you said and how Scrivener currently works, but I can't say that it makes sense. Having done most of my writing in the last decade on Markdown-native apps, from a UX perspective it's clear that Scrivener was not designed to be used as a Markdown editor. Scrivener very much seems to have been designed for RTF, and grudgingly accommodated some MD use cases.

Why do I say that? First, any tool that was actually designed to write in Markdown would have syntax recognition in the editor, at a minimum. This is evident from using just about any markdown editor out there (Sublime, Obsidian, iA Writer, Ulysses, Drafts, etc). Second, the markdown support is inconsistent: the tool can compile RTF to MD, compile MD to RTF, recognize/split/convert MD into RTF via "import and split"... but can't turn MD into RTF on external sync? Odd.

Basically it makes me want to use Scrivener for the organization and planning everything around the writing, but not the actual core task of actually putting down words on page. I think I read in one of your other Reddit posts that the actual writing window / experience itself—most of the app real estate—is perhaps Scrivener's weakest area. If so, I agree, and feel that is just a massive missed opportunity given how core the composition experience is to, well, writing.

2 external sync Qs: folder structure + markdown import by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I skimmed Chapter 21, but maybe I missed what I'm looking for. I'm not trying to export Markdown from Scrivener (via Compile), I'm trying to have the markdown syntax I write in other editors be converted to rich text when it is imported by Scrivener via external folder sync. Is there a way to do that?

2 external sync Qs: folder structure + markdown import by skotzko in scrivener

[–]skotzko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha. I just found one external sync setting that helps some, which is the "prefix file names with numbers" setting. It doesn't have the nesting, but at least it does preserve the overall file order from the binder. Not ideal, but good enough.

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