Paul Cantrell
You know, Pages on macOS is a good app.
People hate on it, and maybe if I had stronger word processor feelings I would too. But…I don’t, and I like it. It’s flexible without being a giant piece of MS-Word-like bloatware. It produces nice results. And it’s stayed more or less reasonable for •years•.
Paul Cantrell
I really, really appreciate software that just keeps on being as good as it was over the long haul. So much better than the whole whizbang → glorious utility → strategic shift → bloat → lock-in → enshittification → sell off → kill off trajectory.
Paul Cantrell
@AdrianRiskin yes we cat
Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉
@inthehands that's what she sed
oli_jens
@inthehands yep and Numbers and Keynote are great as well. All are just straightforward and easy to get to grips with and they have excellent templates.
Nathan Anti Fascist
@inthehands People hate on it? It’s amazing
Paul Cantrell
@nathandh
I don’t know, I’ve heard people grumble, but the replies tel me I’m not alone in thinking it’s great!
Paul Cantrell
The replies tell me that Pages is getting the love it deserves! I’m so glad to hear it. I’ve heard people poo-poo it over the years, but as always, it seems that negativity is just louder, not larger.
Paul Cantrell
@PlaneSailingGames You can assign keyboard shortcuts to paragraph and character styles, if that’s what you’re looking for:
https://support.apple.com/guide/pages/use-a-keyboard-shortcut-to-apply-a-text-style-tanb8c18c476/mac
Agreed that style updating can be mildly quirky.
Alex White
I use Pages a lot, and the version tracking works well when I want to share a document with an editor.
I do have some wishlist items - I wish it had easy keyboard shortcuts for promoting and demoting headings like word always had, and I wish it was more straightforward to modify a style (the ‘update this style’ box can be a bit random about when it will work).
The iCloud syncing between mac, ipad, iphone has proved really useful.
Paul Cantrell
@davidbcohen Per the subsequent post, I am 1000% fine with it continuing to work just as well as it always has without changing much.
sustainability > innovation
David Cohen
@inthehands When was it last substantially updated, though? Apple’s internal development is like the Eye of Sauron - when it is being looked at it gets a lot of attention, but then the focus shifts away and it is ignored.
Metafrastis
@inthehands @chucker I love Pages. I do everything with it my colleagues do with Word, just nicer and way faster. I’m regularly doing the layout for a magazine that was designed with InDesign before I took over. I’m doing in 2-3 hours what took 1-2 full days before.
Pages is a stellar DTP app.
Chris Carr
@inthehands agreed
it and Keynote much better than Numbers
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