ecto for Windows sucks
I used ecto for Windows for the first and last time yesterday.
I was stuck in the airport and on a plane and decided to make productive use of my time by writing the Asheville post I published a short while ago.
Without going into detail I’ll just quickly ramble off the issues that made ecto for Window a pointless piece of software:
- Saving an item as a draft is cumbersome and counterintuitive.
- Saying the above makes it sound like the feature ultimately worked, which it didn’t. I launched ecto tonight and the post had mysteriously disappeared. Were it not for Google Desktop Search’s cache, which caught the preview HTML ecto generated, I would have lost the post.
- Speaking of preview HTML, the preview HTML 1) did not display paragraph breaks and 2) displayed styles which look nothing like the styles on my server.
I’m pretty bummed I paid $8.00 to add the Windows version onto my order when I bought ecto for Mac. It feels like an afterthought product developed by a Mac-focused developer.
Now that I think about it I’m not thrilled with ecto for Mac, either. The text editor isn’t very robust and you can’t add new categories within the editor. Sigh.