I have several blogs that I am working on these days. 5 fairly active ones. So, I decided that it was time to download one of the desktop blog editors. At the advice of some fellow bloggers over at b5media, I decided to try Ecto.
All but one of my blogs are using Wordpress software and getting Ecto to recognize them was effortless. I haven’t bothered trying the other yet because I’m not sure how much longer I plan on keeping that blog around without migrating it over to Wordpress.
It recognizes all of the categories that I have created in Wordpress but if you need to create a new category, you will have to log into your blog to add it. It easily lets you add Technorati tags to any post. The editor has a spell checker built in that seems to work as well as any other spell checker. It will save you Amazon Associate ID and let you easily add Amazon items to your blog. I have not written a post using it, but I did mock it up on a draft and it seemed too work exactly like you would expect.
It lets you save drafts.
Now this is a biggie for me. I am really bad about only having one thing that I am writing at a time. Something about using the browser makes working with drafts frustrating for me. I am already using the drafts and have created little stubs for about 20 posts that I plan on writing across my four blogs that I set up in Ecto. I’m planning on dropping notes and links in the drafts as I go and then when I am ready to publish the post, I will clean it up and post it.
Who knows, maybe I’ll even get into the whole future dating posts to have them magically appear while I am sleeping or busy at work.
Baby steps.
You can give Ecto a 21 day trial run for free, but I have a feeling that I’ll be buying a license before the trial runs out. It might be the best $17.95 I’ll spend for a while.
Do you have a favorite blogging software? Let me know and I might try it out before the Ecto trail period expires.
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