TAKES — a writing desk for alternate takes
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Each preset sets a look and a sound together. Tweak anything after in Sound and Style.
Alternates ring high and climb the scale; the original always lands low, so you can hear when you are back where you started. Paragraph takes play a two-note chord. Everything is synthesized in your browser.
THE FORMAT IS JUST MARKDOWN
The sand was {{shining | glassy | >wet}}. ← inline takes, > marks the chosen one
((A line pushed back, still there.)) ← dimmed
::: takes
First version of a paragraph.
+++ >
Second version, currently chosen.
:::
--- overflow ---
Anything stashed lives down here.Your draft stays in this browser’s storage. Nothing is uploaded, sent or published. Clearing site data erases it, so download a copy you care about.
KEYS
- Tab / J K
- Step through the takes
- ← →
- Audition the takes on the focused one
- O
- Back to the original (the low tone)
- Enter
- Open every take; add, promote or keep one
- Delete
- Keep the showing take, drop the rest
- Select + T
- New take of the words · . the whole sentence
- Select + D / U
- Dim back · bring back a dim in this paragraph
- Select + S
- Stash in the overflow (drag it back any time)
- [ ] · P
- Switch paragraph takes · new paragraph take
- E or double-click
- Edit the paragraph
- W · F · M
- Markdown source · focus mode · sound
- Alt+1/2/3
- In the source: take, dim, stash
- ⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z
- Undo / redo
TAKES is a PointCast experiment in “alternative control”, after an idea Jason Fried showed with his Write_On editor. Not affiliated. Format notes (JSON) · PointCast