Re: Just wondering

["R Tennenbaum"]

>Dear Rafe,
>   Out of curiosity, what do you DO with even nine windows of text open
>at a time? I've never opened more than four at once in my writing, and
>three is more typical. I'm interested to know how others use a capacity
>in XyWrite that I've always thought a bit "over the top."

I did, too, Carlo. Hope you won't be sorry you asked: for the most
part, I have different sorts of files I keep for various long-term
projects -- might be notes for, three scripts say, to which I might not
add anything but once a week -- still, I like to have it open so when
the time comes I can switch right over there. When I'm working on one
of them, I'll have a different sort of file which accumulates "working"
notes -- something to remind me to get back there and fix this or that.
 Then I'll want to keep two or three windows in reserve, just in case I
need to pull up one or two files -- to look up an address or tweak a
program or something in my keyboard file.

That's one session (the full-screen one, as it happens). Another
session is for journo things I'm doing -- an article'll take up at
least two windows, often as many as four or five more if there's lots
of interviews or other stuff I'm feeding in. That's another session,
and again I kind of have to keep it separate so if I'm someplace else,
like in Netscrap, I can switch right back to the named session and know
I haven't got far to go from there. Finally I'm also taking notes for
a complicated book project which has lots of little subsections and
here alas, I'm finding myself constrained by nine windows. It's not
only the different parts, it's that I need the bits small enough to get
to this or that place in them in a hurry.

I never thought I'd need 27 windows. I guess I'd better admit it, I'm
a xyoholic.






Rafe T.
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