Almost all of my writing starts in TextEdit. I’m an unabashed champion of it and I think it does not get nearly the credit it deserves. I have it set to default to plain text, 90 characters x 50 lines, Menlo 12pt for my font after a long flirtation with Droid Sans.
via Talking Tools: Patrick Rhone of MinimalMac.com | Bridging the Nerd Gap.
Patrick Rhone has written before about why he thinks TextEdit is one of the best, yet underutilized Mac apps, so it was interesting to see this further explanation of his TextEdit “setup” in a recent interview.
I tested these settings on my own Mac, and in an instant discovered a slew of features in TextEdit that I was previously unaware of. Come to think of it, it was definitely the first time I even opened the TextEdit Preferences menu.
Patrick – mission accomplished.