Writing, Blogger's post-by-mail and PalmOS's stupid freaking clipboard

A little procedural, here.

The clipboard on PalmOS sucks. Even though my Zodiac doesn't have the blessing/curse 32k memos that the newer PalmOne units have, we're all stuck with a 1k clipboard! Agh!

So here's the problem I have and a workable, if inelegant, solution. I need a way to write, store and ultimately email my articles to my various blogs. My actual fiction I can write in Documents To Go since I can just send it as an attached Word document to fictionwise when it's ready for publication. But Blogger's blog by email feature can't extract text from a Word document into a post entry, I have to put my post in the email message body itself rather than an attachment.

Which is where the 1k stupid frickin' clipboard comes in.

Most of my stuff is well over 1k. That's about 175 words. I've been known to go over 175 words before I get to a topic sentence. I need a way to record my writing and get it into SnapperMail as an email message so I can frickin' post it.

I've tried every clipboard extender out there, and was quite fond of both ClipPro and CutPaste5, but neither can actually copy text out of Documents To Go, even if I have the "enable active text field" option turned on. So as much as I'd live to be able to write all my stuff in Documents To Go, I'm not copying over 1k at a time every time I post. That's just whacky.

I thought about writing in Slap and then either zapping it over to Snapper if it was done or into DTG if I needed to work more on it later, but DTG can't accept text from Slap, either. Come to think of it, this wouldn't have solved my problem anyway. Don't know what I was thinking.

So the only thing left is to write all my posts in SnapperMail from start to finish. But wait, there's a problem here, too.

You may remember my recent post about my email woes and the wonders of IMAP. This works great, and is still chugging strong, but there's a catch.

If I want to save an article as a draft and come back to it later I can, but it goes into SnapperMail's draft folder, not the draft folder of my IMAP account. That means that if I start an article here at Chipotle, save it as a draft and try to finish it in Outlook when I get home, I can't. It isn't in Outlook.

So I tried emailing incomplete drafts to myself, then forwarding them to the blog with additions. The problem there is that there's no way to turn off Snapper's line wrapping and I have to remove all those hard returns every time I do this.

And then it hit me. I'm an idiot.

I have something on my Palm that works with CutPaste5, allowing me to copy an entire article and paste it into SnapperMail. It also syncs with Outlook, allowing me to work on stuff on the Palm and on my desktop. What is this miracle application?

Memo Pad.

So that's it, then. I'm writing my articles in Memo Pad, good old Memo Pad, and then using CutPaste5 to move them into SnapperMail to post.

Ya know, when I started writing on PDAs back in 1997 the only tool available was Memo Pad, and I had to keep my writing in 4k segments. How far we've come.