Okay subscribers, neighbors, friends and family—or those who are some combination thereof and receive my occasional “message” in your mailbox from Fred The First @ Earth Alive. I need your feedback. (And let me just ask here : have I made my title too obscure for younger readers, or do at least a few of my botanical friends know the reference? Who’ll be the first to ID the phrase?)
As promised, I will be sending out the Thursday Post at 8am tomorrow. Look for it in your email.
For that post, I have stuck with the plain vanilla SubStack formatting you are used to. But I’m possibility thinking, at a time when the opportunities for both writing and publishing online are growing.
My favorite tool for creating documents this past year has been Craft.do App. Now, the potential to “blog” using it has just popped up, but is still in beta. I don’t want to pass up the opportunity, to begin assessing this potential new tool and I need help. I’d love to write and publish in one swell foop.
So I’m asking you to please at least take a look at the alternate option for reading what I send you.
Tomorrow in email at 8, the SubStack formatting of “I Just Don’t See It” will arrive. But meanwhile, a few of you kind souls please click the link to view it in Craft (I like dark mode), and tell me your thoughts—just on readability—which is just one of the strengths of the app—one of the most well-designed of any I’ve ever used; and I have tried pretty much every writing / note-taking / organizing app in the Mac market. Thank you, editorial advisors, all. Link below…
I Just Don’t See It (Craft.do document used to draft the text vs the pasted-in version seen on SubStack.
NOTE: I have added a comment to the first paragraph, just to seed the process. Please kick the tires on commenting. I think as long as you retain the weblink to the CRAFT doc page, you can view any comments, up to the current moment. Lots to learn.
HINT: I have linked several times in the past from short SubStack posts in your inbox that point to longer CRAFT.do pages for the full message, so this is not entirely a new-looking thing never seen here before.
I find white on dark nice for titles and big print, but black on white easier to read. Otherwise it is a nice simple to follow format. Feed me Seymor - from The Little House of Horrors play.
Posting a comment is very difficult. Sub stack gives you a whole lot of runarounds to sign up or sign in. On another matter, as old as I am I forgot about feed me Seymour.
Oh dear, Fred, now I have a new problem called Aphantasia, I have always described myself a visual person and now there is another word for me to remember. I find it hard to believe that I'm in the 1-2% that have this disease. Hope it's not contagious. I do not have an opinion on dark or light either work for me.
"Dark Mode" is all right, I suppose, in small doses. For emphasis, but not for extended reading. If an app I use has the option to use either dark or "light" mode, I'll always choose the latter. If it only comes in "dark" flavor, I'll use something else.
I almost always WRITE before first light, so dark bkg is easier on my eyes. If viewers of Craft.do page prefer light, turns out I cannot change that per post, but readers have the option by clicking an icon, upper right of the page, to toggle light-dark.
I find white on dark nice for titles and big print, but black on white easier to read. Otherwise it is a nice simple to follow format. Feed me Seymor - from The Little House of Horrors play.
Posting a comment is very difficult. Sub stack gives you a whole lot of runarounds to sign up or sign in. On another matter, as old as I am I forgot about feed me Seymour.
I will investigate. I’ll try to add a comment from my wife’s computer and see what my experience is.
Oh dear, Fred, now I have a new problem called Aphantasia, I have always described myself a visual person and now there is another word for me to remember. I find it hard to believe that I'm in the 1-2% that have this disease. Hope it's not contagious. I do not have an opinion on dark or light either work for me.
You are still a fantastic in our opinion. Picture that! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Dark Mode" is all right, I suppose, in small doses. For emphasis, but not for extended reading. If an app I use has the option to use either dark or "light" mode, I'll always choose the latter. If it only comes in "dark" flavor, I'll use something else.
I almost always WRITE before first light, so dark bkg is easier on my eyes. If viewers of Craft.do page prefer light, turns out I cannot change that per post, but readers have the option by clicking an icon, upper right of the page, to toggle light-dark.
Generally I can see black on white better than the reverse. In this case, that's still true for the non-bolded content. But bolded white works, FWIW.
I always prefer black text on white, but this white of dark gray is plenty readable too.