Glad that All Day Project is Done! đŸ„”

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Well, it took all day, but it’s done. I managed to copy and paste all of my published blog articles into plain text files. Some of these go back as far as 2008, written in a mix of programs—Word Perfect, Word, Pages, and others—depending on the hardware and software I was using at the time, spanning several decades and many device changes.

There may have been a more efficient way to do this, but Squarespace only allowed me to export the articles in WordPress format. I also wanted to include specific metadata and links to images for each one. Someone with greater technical skill could probably have found a faster solution, but in the end, I now have every article saved as a plain text Markdown file with metadata. It was a tedious, time-consuming task—but a satisfying one. :hot_face:

Going forward, all articles will begin as plain text Markdown files, stored in an archive folder. I have no desire to repeat this process again! :slightly_smiling_face:

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I became instantly sentimental when I read ‘WordPerfect’. Used that word processor for many years during its heyday. What a revolutionary and great product it was for its time.

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and those keyboard things that went above the F row to remind you what keys did what. I remember those from high school. :slight_smile:

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Word Perfect - I miss the hidden codes (F4).

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@kjw97, @webwalrus, and @NiranS, indeed, WordPerfect was my first word-processing app, it was great.

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When I read the title I thought maybe you got the grass cut and the car washed.

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That was already done. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I went through a similar journey with my (Wordpress) blog. I created a Scrivener project and did a copy from each blog post into a new document in Scrivener. This is RTF (and not Markdown) which is fine for me. In recent years I write new posts in Scrivener and reverse the process, pasting into a Wordpress blog page. This action takes a bit of massaging as the paste doesn’t get the formatting correct, but I can live with that.

And at any time I can process my entire blog into a PDF file, print it as a book, or make an ebook from it.

I also loved WordPerfect, especially the DOS version, which was rock solid.

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And at any time I can process my entire blog into a PDF file, print it as a book, or make an ebook from it.

That’s actually a good idea—I hadn’t considered that. Right now, I have all of those articles as individual Markdown files. It would be easy to bulk convert them to rich text using DEVONthink and then import them into Scrivener if I decided to go that route. Thanks for getting me thinking. :thinking: