Using Hieraki

Robby Russell — Sun, 01 May 2005 06:15:36 -0500

It was hard to resist the desire to utilize a Rails application during the process of working on my book. I got Hieraki installed the other day and copied over a lot of the work that I have been doing in another program, and am now using Hieraki for a lot of my first draft writing. As it’s fairly flexible and I can access it just about any where through our vpn at Planet Argon.

O’Reilly provides a fancy MS Word template… with a fancy toolbar specific to their formating style. However, I don’t want to sit in front of my laptop to work and working in Word just isn’t my ideal scenario. So, I am doing most of my work in Hieraki first and then transferring it to Word and formating it to their style. (no, the template doesn’t work in OOo…sigh)

The reason that I like Hieraki is that it is allows me to get content into the system really quickly. I was considering a wiki for all my research work, but Hieraki seems to be doing exactly what I needed.

Thanks to Tobias for (yet another) great tool!

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