Yesterday’s blog post I wrote on my phone.<\/p>\n
I didn’t plan<\/i> that. It’s just how it happened.<\/p>\n
I knew what I wanted to blog about yesterday morning — a vacation in March<\/a>, to see the Lewis chessmen in New York — and on the subway train I pulled out my notepad and started writing down what the blog post would be so I could type it up quickly when I reached the office. Some of my favorite blog posts in years past, like this one<\/a> from a year ago, were written that way.<\/p>\n Then it occurred to me.<\/p>\n I have the WordPress for Android<\/a> app on my phone.<\/p>\n I’d downloaded the app when I bought my phone, and after writing a single post with it (specifically, this post on health care reform<\/a>) I decided that I was never<\/b> doing that again. It was clunky and it was slow and I didn’t enjoy the process at all<\/i>. And even though the app has been updated over the past year, with a complete and total overhaul, I hadn’t tried it since.<\/p>\n First time for everything.<\/p>\n I opened up the app, started up a new post, and started keying in what I’d written out longhand, which wasn’t much, just paragraphs one, two, and four. I embellished what I’d written out here and there as I “typed” it, and when the subway leg of my journey came to an end I had all three paragraphs entered. As I waited for the light rail at the stop across the street, I keyed in the rest without anything written down to guide me, and when the light rail train arrived I was done.<\/p>\n I saved it as a draft, I didn’t publish it. I wanted to add some hyperlinks, and I wanted to add some artwork, and neither of those were feasible with the app. Still, that only took ten minutes once I reached the office, and then the post was ready to go.<\/p>\n Is it possible that I’ll work this way in the future? Write something on the phone, even if only as a prototype post, and then revise and publish on the blog? Quite possibly. The app worked fairly well, I was able to get the text entered without much difficulty, and setting things like tags and categories was easily done.<\/p>\n Plus, I love to tinker, and tinkering with the app is something I’ll definitively do. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday’s blog post I wrote on my phone. I didn’t plan that. It’s just how it happened. I knew what I wanted to blog about yesterday morning — a vacation in March, to see the Lewis chessmen in New York — and on the subway train I pulled out my notepad and started writing downContinue reading “On Writing with the WordPress Android App”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[4096],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}