Took the kid out to the coffee shop for a spinach turnover and strawberry coconut refresher (them) and coffee frappe (me). Got a little bit of work done on the book while we were there, but then we had to go home 'cause the RealFeel is 111 degrees right now.
An incomplete sampling of my various keyboards. Three qwerty Bluetooth keyboards on the bottom right (the Doohoeek Universal Bluetooth Mini, Apple Magic Keyboard, and the Rii Mini Bluetooth Keyboard), the BYOK and OmniOne Micro PC in the middle, and all the rest are hobbyist steno machines. Not pictured are my two laptops and the professional steno machine I use for work, along with a few other old and/or busted hobbyist machines I have lying around. The hobbyist machines in this photo are, from top left going right and down: Stenoflex, Leversteno, TinyMod, Uni, Jarne, Asterisk, and Jarne Blade.
Of these, all of them work with the OmniOne, which runs Windows and can therefore run Plover, the Open Source steno software, but potentially if the BYOK decides to implement it, the Leversteno, Uni, Jarne, Asterisk, and Jarne Blade could also work with the BYOK, since they're able to run Javelin steno firmware and can therefore output qwerty directly to any screen. BYOK doesn't support it yet, but I hope they will someday. I've been lowkey thinking about buying them an Asterisk to test on, ha-ha, since it's only $50. Maybe I will!
I dialed my daily editing goal way down, and I'm a lot less stressed out now. So far I've edited every day in June. The technique of grabbing about 1300 words from my manuscript in Studio and copying them to a file called Workbench, which I can sync to my BYOK and then edit in one go, is working pretty well. Then I copy-paste them back into the manuscript and grab another chunk of around the same length for the next day.
I recently revised my editing goal downward pretty steeply, because it was too much, and I was falling farther and farther behind. But I have managed to edit at least a bit of my manuscript every day in June so far, and I intend to keep going. I'm still sort of bouncing between Studio on my laptop, Studio on my Android phone, and the BYOK device. For now I think that's okay. I think it helps keep me on my toes. One of my goals for summer is to get out to a lot more roof gardens around NYC. So far I've only edited using my BYOK device on two of them. Plenty more left to discover. (This isn't a roof garden, but an indoor green wall. I've posted a different photo of it previously to this Reddit, but I'm in this neighborhood a lot and I really love hanging out in the space, so I figured another picture of it would be okay.)
Edited to add: If anyone in NYC wants to do writing/editing/coworking BYOK meetups, message me! I always feel more productive when I'm working alongside someone else.
I just made a Trackbear goal to get through my manuscript and reconcile discrepancies between the first and second phases of my first draft by the end of June. As of right now I'm planning to keep track of progress by counting the words in each edited section after I'm done with an editing session and then adding it to the whole count of words edited, with a goal of getting to my current word count by the end of the month, though that's inevitably going to be a little sloppy considering that I'll be cutting some words and adding others and then also adding commentary within the manuscript (I tried using the "comment" feature in Studio today, but either I was doing it wrong or it's a bit buggy; either way, I think I'm going to stick to inline comments to keep everything compatible while jumping between device, Studio on laptop, and Studio app on phone). Is there a better way to do this? Ideally it would be nice to go by percentage of total manuscript (since part of what I'm currently trying to figure out is where to cut the sections, I don't really want to go by chapter or scene at this point), but I don't think there's yet a way to easily do that on any of the BYOK modalities, right?
Got the OmniOne working with my Jarne. Did a bit of editing on the BYOK (though I must admit I'm still really struggling with the "find my place" problem; I can search for my &&& mark to see where I left off, but then the cursor jumps me to the beginning of the file and I basically have to page down a million times to get back to where I left off.) and a bit of card browsing on the OmniOne. I think what I want most out of a dual editing setup like this is the ability to type notes that link to various parts of the manuscript. I've been using :: for this so far, but when they get imported into the scratchpad, they're not linked to any kind of context, so I'll have to seek each one out manually in the manuscript files rather than being able to jump to each spot in context. It would be cool to be able to link cards in a cardstack with parts of the manuscript as well. But even without that stuff I'm still making progress nonetheless! Feels good.
My OmniOne Pocket PC (Kickstarted, though I believe it's also available online) arrived today! I'm thinking about using it for grids, card stacks, mind mapping, wiki articles, etc, in Studio while having my BYOK device alongside to deal with text only. Not 100% sure how the workflow is gonna go, but I think it might potentially be useful for avoiding distractions (as long as I go somewhere without WiFi), as opposed to using Studio on my phone with the app. (Though I have to say the Android implementation of the Studio app is pretty dang good!)