Had a great lesson yesterday on the ills of segregating media by mode of production:
1. Team's been working on a detailed narrative of its work (default: let's collaborate in Google Docs)
2. Oh, but… there's all these important visuals and juicy quotes (try a slide doc?)
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3. Awkward: slide docs are best for image-first documents, but our prose should actually be primary (well, except for two spots where it shouldn't be…)
4. Print it all out, cut it up—tape, sharpies, post-it-notes
5. Full-manual, magazine-style layout in Pages. Done in 3 hours.👌
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That way, we centered on imagery where it made sense and left images in a side column where it didn't. And we could cut quotes into the layout differently according to their emphasis in the narrative.
Realtime multiuser collab in Pages was great! Should have started there! 2018!
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Funny that even though I've got the Tufte-isms so deeply ingrained in me, I still started with tools segregating by mode of production—because they're the default. I wish it were easier to do otherwise: using Pages like this still had way more friction than making a normal doc.
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