A strange thing happened today. I have been trying to work on writing a paper in TextMate using LaTeX. I was really struggling with it and felt like I could make it work for me. I’ve had this experience before.

Then I realized that it’s because it looked too much like code and too little like text to me. I changed the colors (about 5 hours ago) to be black-on-white instead of white-on-black. Voila! It is all feeling very good to me now.

It’s amazing what a psychological difference those text editor colors can make.