

logfiles or any other data with variable or fixed parts. However, there is a lot of information out there about grep and regular expressions which can make a huge difference in dealing with text, esp. * equals any character no matter how often and that you need a \ to make sure that a ( or ) is seen as character and not as part of a grep command. A note about Grep and Regular ExpressionsīTW, if you are interested in how grep works - all that I can tell you is that. Notes (e.g., “Note (yellow), 18:14, Daniel Wessel:”) and page numbers (physical counting) remain in the text, allowing me to quickly find the page if the meaning of the text fragment is lost. To deal with the texts the authors cited. * Daniel Wessel:\rĪnd replace it with nothing to get the normal text highlights as a single line each, and then: So, when I deal with this text fragments, I first use: Given that I use green highlighting for sources the text I am reading quotes, this is crucial information to maintain (I would not want to imply that the authors did say something that the sources they cite actually have said). Will replace all green highlight lines with the text: “INQUOTE: “.

If you want to keep the information which color you used, you can replace each color with another piece of information. If you leave the replace field blank and select “replace all”, it will remove this information. (use your own name, and activate “Wrap around” to find every occurrence no matter where you are in the file) grep will find all lines which start with a line break, followed by “Highlight” and end with your name and a line break. You have to check grep (and uncheck it later, because it is a very different kind of search) in the Find Dialogue:
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I highly recommend copy & pasting the summary into a TextWrangler file ( TextWrangler is free and very powerful text editor for Mac OS) and use the grep function to search and replace. But there are ways to deal with this variable information. A clean text file with only the information itself followed by line breaks would be more handy.Ī simple search and replace cannot be done, as the date/time information changes. While the highlight information (which color, when, by whom) might be useful in some settings, it’s information I don’t need when I deal with the text in Circus Ponies Notebook. fountain-clm is a Codeless Language Module for TextWrangler and BBEdit. Highlight (yellow), 18:14, Daniel Wessel:Ī focus on both the scholar and the text or what they call text work/identity work Editorial is a powerful writing app for iPhone and iPad that supports Fountain. GoodReader adds information that is not that useful for me: However, when I export the highlighted text and notes via the “E-Mail Summary” function: It allows me to read my literature digitally and easily highlight passages I want to use later and add notes. I love GoodReader, an App for the iPhone and iPad. If you have eight hours to cut down a tree, it is best to spend six hours sharpening your axe and then two hours cutting down the tree.Īnonymous, on the benefits of having good tools
