I have a strong set of views when it comes to how to work with computers. I try not to impose my way onto others and I can recognize many circumstances where my way of doing things would definitely not be optimal, but when I see how much time is spent in the long run fiddling with badly integrated tools that produce all kinds of headaches down the way I do start to wonder why others don't do it my way. So here are my general Ideas on how I try to use my computer and how I pick tools and make them interoperate with each other.

Over most of written history formatting documents was done by the person copying it down by hand on a piece of paper. Then printing emerged which birthed the discipline of typesetting. Nowadays with multiple different screen sizes and html as most common type of document I think it is important for me to figure out how these documents work and how I want to set up my environment to produce the type and quality of documents that I want to produce.