I do that too! It’s nice to have some “scratch space” at the end, like an artists’ palette to dab colors from.

Ideas naturally flow from scratch to outline to fleshed-out paragraphs this way.

I used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other.

> I used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other.

Ditto, except that I use Vim on a single file with vertical splits, so that that I have different parts of the same file in view at the same time.

With a large monitor I typically have 3x vertical splits on the same file.

I do this too with my iA writer windows - 3 columns with various ideas and texts. What I found is that the slim width of each window helps me to write better. Broad windows with their endlessly long lines made me loss focus on what I was writing.

Perhaps it comes from me being a 80-character line limit programmer and have always limited the width of my editor.

I was too! I hope the way we've done it solves the problem!

Got any previews of your work? Lol.