I’m getting unhealthily excited over Ecto 3 coming out in the near future. I’ve tried to use Ecto as offline blogging app before, but there were a few deal-breakers for me in the way it dealt with my messy updating of drafts on the web or offline in Ecto, so I’ve always ended up going straight back to WordPress’ online editor and plain TextMate files while offline.

However, Ecto 3 is now in alpha (download at your own risk) and Chris Messina documented it nicely in screenshots. I’ve only just downloaded it so it’s too early to say whether my deal-breakers have been mended, but I’ll be having a play with it as soon as I have some more spare time…