Technology

Apple Macintosh Skills For Writers

First, we’ll learn the Command Line. No, I’m kidding. None of that.

Apple Macintosh has long been a favorite of writers and other creative people. There are good reasons for that, although the primary reason was that Adobe Photoshop was released on Mac first in 1988. A Windows version wasn’t available until two years later.

Macintosh runs macOS, which has a not always deserved reputation of being easier to learn and use than Windows. I’m not going to address that argument except to say that I’ve worked with and provided technical support for Unix, Linux, Windows, macOS, and more you have never heard mentioned. I prefer macOS.

I’m going to show you some things in MacOS that you may not know. I’m not going to pretend that you cannot do the same thing in Windows. There’s no reason to leave a comment proclaiming that; it’s a given.

So, let’s get to it.

Getting your writing to your Mac and why you should

You want your writing to be on your Mac. You may even want to create your work there. There are excellent tools available, but that’s not my purpose here. I’m going to assume that you create at a website and will copy it down to your Mac.

But why? The first reason is that you want safe copies. I’ve been writing on the internet since the early 1990s. Several of the sites I wrote at…