{"id":49,"date":"2025-09-21T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:39:07","slug":"tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a few tools which I return to frequently to accomplish the basic tasks showcased on this site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a desktop computer running Linux Mint, and use a mechanical keyboard (a KeyChron Q6 Max).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the virtual world, I do most of my writing inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/discover\/writer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LibreOffice Writer<\/a> and take most of my notes in <a href=\"https:\/\/obsidian.md\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Obsidian<\/a>. When I finish something, and it needs printing, I will type-set it either within Writer (if simple) or <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.scribus.net\/canvas\/Scribus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scribus<\/a>, which is a open-source desktop publishing programme. I use the JavaScript app <a href=\"https:\/\/momijizukamori.github.io\/bookbinder-js\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bookbinder<\/a> to impose my finished PDFs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the real world, which I tend to spend most of my time in, I write in notebooks with a pencil. I have an assemblage of notebooks which varies in format and style depending on my current bookmaking experiments &#8211; they are prototypes or failed first attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few tools which I return to frequently to accomplish the basic tasks showcased on this site. I have a desktop computer running Linux Mint, and use a mechanical keyboard (a KeyChron Q6 Max). Writing In the virtual world, I do most of my writing inside LibreOffice Writer and take most of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-james.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}