I am very active on Blogger. All my RPG related email goes to my Gmail account. I use Google Analytics to track trends on my blog. I own an Android phone and tablet. So I am pretty sold on this Google idea.
Well this weekend I found the one thing my gaming life needs more than anything else.
I discovered the new Chrome Book.
It runs the new Chromium OS and uses all the same tools I use now for my RPG work.
Not only that, but last week I began a new RPG book. No surprise there. But this deal is that this is the first time since 1989 that I have started one on something other than Microsoft Word.
I was an early adopter of MS Word. The first copy I ever bought was Word 1.1 for Windows, I quickly upgraded to 2.0. I have tried other software. I had used many others before this; PC Write was a big one for me. I spent untold hours in front of a screen using WordStar. I even, briefly, tried WordPErfect (and hated it). I would guess that in the last 23 years I have spent about 30,000 hours using Word. That's about 5-6 hours a day. Work really adds to this number since everything I do there is in Word.
Last week I started a new RPG book in Google Docs. I have used Docs before for other things and even have written a number of things for work or pleasure in it. But I usually started them in Word. So this is a big deal for me.
This new Chrome Book would give me all the tools I am using now. Sure I have a laptop and a computer. The computer is in my office and not portable. The laptop is for work. My tablet is great, but not great to write with.
I like the idea of having a separate RPG computer to hold all my PDFs and works-in-progress.
Now if I can only get one for Christmas!
I'd love to here more about how things work out for you I have been debating picking one up. When it comes to laying out the doc what do you plan to do it in?
ReplyDeleteI am not likely to get it till after Christmas, but when I do I will talk all about it here.
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