Comments on: NanoNotepad and Nanowrimo environment

By: Saifai

Saifai — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:15:14 +0000

J, wonderful little program. You've made very helpful suggestions.

Great fix, Johnny B. Thanks!

By: NickySS

NickySS — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:27:17 +0000

Hi!
Nice info, big thx.

By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:31:21 +0000

Or, replace the line with these two to make it work every year:

var thisYear = new Date().getFullYear()
var eventdate = new Date(thisYear, 10, 30);

By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:00:45 +0000

Edit the file and change the date on line 149 to this year instead of last year.

By: shelley

shelley — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:04:10 +0000

Hey– this looks great but I get a script error every time I try to run it: 'cl.days' is null or not an object.

Which then keeps the countdown and word count from running. I know nothing really about script and code, but do I need to text edit the file and enter values for days, hours, mins etc?

By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:24:06 +0000

I sent it in. The modified wordcount function is usually within 50 words of the NanoWriMo upload wordcount.

By: J Wynia

J Wynia — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:05:58 +0000

Can you drop me a copy of your changes (j@wynia.org)? I'll update and share the update. I'm not doing Nano this year or I probably would have made changes myself.

By: Johnny B

Johnny B — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:19:17 +0000

Thanks for the great tool! I made some modifications to it for use this year, like updating the date, changing the window size, and changing the font size. Other changes that you might consider to make the wordcount more accurate are to strip out all apostrophe characters (they get turned into spaces, so possesive names count as two words and contractions count as two words), change all entities into real spaces, and then consolidate multiple consecutive whitespace characters into a single space before splitting the string e.g. – replace(/\s+/g, " "). After making those modifications, it is perfect for my needs!

By: Elizabeth Anne Ensley

Elizabeth Anne Ensley — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:38:52 +0000

It would not save for me, and kept giving me an error message whenever I opened it (I tried it more than once). It also caused my browser to freeze up (I use FireFox) and –I forget what else happened, it's too erly in the morning right now, but sluggish system + freeziness + not workingness = reboot. And yes, I tried it after rebooting, too. Heck, it's oaky. Sometimes systems jsut have little quirks. It's part of their charm.

By: J Wynia

J Wynia — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:09:35 +0000

I'm sorry you had problems with it. What specifically went wrong? I ran it pretty much 16 hours a day for several weeks last November without any problems.

By: Elizabeth Anne Ensley

Elizabeth Anne Ensley — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:25:10 +0000

Waah! It did funny things to my system for the last ten minutes, and it would not save! It looked nice enough; it was just very, very mean to me.

By: honorless.net + nano report

honorless.net + nano report — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:57:58 +0000

[...] Ideas for the novel: 3 (!!) Start-overs: 1 First Try: 726 words, approximately 5 hours. Second Try: 1271 words, approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes. (!!) Estimated Finish Date: June 25th, 2006 (according to my modified Erik Benson spreadsheet. Haha!) Utilities (Writing): Microsoft Word 2000, OpenOffice.org 2.0,WordPad, Textpad, and finally, NaNoNotepad. That last one has proved itself one of the least-distracting, and the most easily customizable. At some point, I'll make it read from a style sheet and stick an appropriate image in each directory â€” then shit, son, it'll this writer-illustrator's new best pal. :] Much thanks to Mr. Wynia. [...]

By: CMWinters

CMWinters — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:17:09 +0000

This is an excellent tool and I like it a lot. It's been very useful. The countdown timer, and the word count feature are invaluable. And the forced save? You should be canonized. My goodness.

The only suggestions I have for "Mark 2" are:make it recognize more HTML, specifically bold, italic, underline and horizontal lines. And have it STOP recognizing tags and hard returns as "words". Also…add a "load" feature. I work on my novel from different machines sometimes and I need to be able to load it from some other media.

Still and all, an unbelievably useful tool! And I highly recommend it.

By: Kerryn

Kerryn — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:31:01 +0000

This is fantastic! Will definately minimise the distraction factor and the compulsive use of MSWord's word count function.

Found it through this thread on the NaNoWriMo site:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14813&forum=159

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:30:21 +0000

LOVE how it displays word count and time left!

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Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:05:05 +0000

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By: Chris V.

Chris V. — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:48:24 +0000

The fact that it doesn't have toolbars and all sorts of crazy options is a definite advantage. The minimalist design is focused on the task. Formatting, after all, is just a "copy and paste" stroke away. In the meantime, this tool will keep us focused on our goal. Thanks so much!
On another note, I plan to use my Palm with a wireless keyboard to crank out my work when I'm on the go. I wish I could use this in my Palm, but that's alright as I'll surely be using it on my home machine. Thanks so much for sharing and good luck with NANOWRIMO.

By: Little Red - Not Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf :: Easy does it with NanoNotepad

Little Red - Not Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf :: Easy does it with NanoNotepad — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:41:53 +0000

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Here's to a better and easier NaNoWriMo this year. The NanoNotepad… check it out.

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By: LetterJ

LetterJ — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:47:06 +0000

After seeing GTDWiki, I'm thinking of modifying it to be an auxillary tool to NanoNotepad for novel writing. Things like plot notes, character profiles, general notes, etc. The idea is that you'd have NN sitting open with your actual novel and as ideas occur to you that aren't necessarily a fit for the portion you're actually working on or would be a distraction to finish can be jotted into the Wiki instead. I'll have to see how easy it can be modified to a more special-purpose tool. Clearly they modified the original to fit a "Getting Things Done" model, so it shouldn't be too hard. The fact it can spit out printed 3x5 notecards is a real plus in my book.

By: luis

luis — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:02:47 +0000

Found this via your Slashdot post on education. Looks LOVELY! Perhaps I will dive in this November….

Thanks much,

Luis

By: J Wynia » NanoNotepad

J Wynia » NanoNotepad — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:16:11 +0000

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newstalk - ( eykd.net ) — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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By: My Monkey Mind v.LJ.0

My Monkey Mind v.LJ.0 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

But it's for a good reason! I found a cool NaNoWriMo tool via Google that's muchos useful-looking: NaNoNotePad I've downloaded it and am planning on using it on my desktop. *runs off to play with it pre-nano*