I recently noted that I’d tested out BlogJet to some success. After using it for a few weeks, and seeing a reply from Alec Satin, who has an excellent blog on Project Management and being a generally pleasant human being, I wanted to post a couple updates.

BlogJet has worked well, though I find that I have to jump on the web and make edits occasionally after posting. It lacks a couple key elements that would make it a real times saver:

• No way to insert symbols—though this dash, which I use constantly, shows up automagically, and you can add auto-replace rules for some things.
• It occasionally inserts formatting using span tags over the entire post, overriding the blog’s default styles, which is oddly annoying and unnecessary.
• Tags don’t work. It has an option to use ‘native tags’ instead of technorati, but that never works. They always show up as links at the bottom of the post instead of actual tags in WordPress.

Blog Jet is nice in that I don’t have to visit the site, log in, and click on post. So generally, when I have an idea I want to jot down and develop later, I write it in BlogJet and save it as draft on the site.

But if I’m going to post all the way through, I don’t see a point, since I have to log into the site and edit the tags anyways : (  I’ve put in a request to BlogJet to fix this feature; hopefully they’ll have an ear for my feedback.

I tested out BlogJet ($29.95/free trial) for posting to my blog from a desktop editor. Very sharp and polished so far. When I opened it, it suggested I send this post, though it had some really silly text for the content.

It did, however, have this spiffy quote:

“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” – Albert Einstein

I’ll also be trying out BlogDesk over the next few days, which is freeware. But I have a suspicion it won’t live up to BlogJet’s polished UI and nice set of hotkeys…