• brab
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Topic: My dream for MarsEdit 3.0 (or 4.0)

Here is something that I posted on my blog which I thought might be relevant here. It's way beyond a feature request, which is why I call it a dream ;-)

I would really like for MarsEdit to evolve from an offline blogging tool to a full-fledged blog management system. This would provide great features such as:
- offline storing of blog content, assets, and metadata (such as tags or categories),
- easy migration between blogging systems, and easy simultaneous publishing to multiple blogging systems.

There are already many features in MarsEdit that hint toward that directions. To get there it seems that what's missing is:
- storing every post (and not the most recent ones),
- synchronization of content (if it is modified on the blog and not only on MarsEdit).

Synchronization is a difficult one, especially for efficiency (it would take a while to make sure that no post on the blog has changed). I guess it should only be automatic on a number of recent posts, with the possibility to manually synchronize everything.

I know I'm dreaming aloud, but I thought I should share this.

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  • brab
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Re: My dream for MarsEdit 3.0 (or 4.0)

I've been thinking more about this, and another great improvement (yet even more on the dreaming side) would be to be able to also fetch comments on blog entries, so that migration between blog systems would even be more complete.

And needless to say, I would happily pay for such an upgrade! (Even if it only did offline storing of all the blog contents.)

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Re: My dream for MarsEdit 3.0 (or 4.0)

Hi! Thanks for the comments. Sorry I took so long to respond. Somehow this thread passed my normal monitoring.

I'm really into all of your ideas. Synchronization and archival functionality would be particularly cool. Even the comments integration I could imagine adding one day.

But the big limitation for me is that I think there is still SO MUCH to do in building up MarsEdit's core functionality as a writing and publishing tool for the web. I love to fantasize about features that expand its focus even further beyond that, but to be honest it probably won't happen much until I've had the chance to really flesh out what I think are some important enhancements in the way it currently works as a primary publishing tool.

Thanks again for stopping in and sharing your thoughts,

Daniel

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