Just last night Luis pointed me at “The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn” by Paul Graham. It’s a healthy sized read. Fortunately, TUAW had recently clued me in to a free app called Tofu. Tofu’s site explains itself this way:

In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, and each column is only as high as your window. So lines are nice and narrow, they don’t move about vertically, plus your text is now in easy-to-digest chunks. You just scroll from column to column horizontally, and feel more in control.

I like columns, but I also like the fact that you can save the doc and it remembers where you are. For articles containing a lot of words, remembering where I was is a huge benefit. This is something I wish my browser did for me.

I think Tofu works great for Mr. Graham’s essay’s because they’re light on formatting and links and are quite detailed. I’m not sure I’ve ever finished one in one sitting.

Oh, and you can pick your own font too. I recommend a nice 14pt Baskerville.

update (06.02.2006): bah, I didn’t realize this until now. By default, Tofu, will not remember your position in the doc if you quit and reopen. To turn this on you have to go to Tofu > Preferences and check “remember scroll position within documents”.

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