Dave Caolo at Unclutterer, a website about home and office organization, wrote a post about how he organizes his writing for a year using Scrivener. The main idea is to make 12 folders in a Scrivener file and use labels to distinguish each articles. This method will be helpful to bloggers or writers who want…
Month: July 2014
Use this Word Tracker to write your book
Erik R. Van Asch, an engineer and published writer, was impressed by “the magic spreadsheet”, online spreadsheet file on Google Drive where people compare each other’s writing records. The problem of the magic spreadsheet is that it takes a very long time to load. So, Erik made an excel file that tracks daily writing for…
A comprehensive guide on Twitter for writers
Can Twitter regarded as writing software? A casual answer would be No. But recently I seem to come across articles that stress the importance of twitter for writers and make me think differently. Alex Fink, whose article I recently covered in my recent post, includes Twitter in the list of writing software and says: Twitter…
5 screenwriting apps for Android and IOS
Christopher Shultz wrote a useful review on screenwriting software for IOS and Android tablets and smartphones. The five apps he covers in the post are scriptly, Fade in Mobile, Celtx, Scripts Pro and Final Draft Writer. Although he just mentions it in passing, DubScript for Android looks also great given its high ratings in Google…
Best reading and writing software for academics
Alex Fink wrote a post on reading and writing software for Tilt, a blog for center for teaching and learning at the University of Minnesota. The post deals with the topic of connecting, accessing, and producing information and what software to use in the process. In a nutshell, it is a short paper about software to…
How to use WordPress as a distraction free writing editor.
Julie Neidlinger, a writer & blogger, shares her opinions on why we need distraction free writing software and how to use WordPress in distraction free mode. You can also check screenshots of major distraction free mode software such as inkpen.in, Draft, and simplenote. She also shows what plugin to better use the full-screen mode of…
How to use Apple Pages as a minimal text editor
Bill Bennett, a professional writer, wrote a post on how to use Pages in the most minimalist way possible. Yes. This is not about how to use Pages to its maximum power but how to use it like iA writer on the iPad. If you use Mac and don’t want to spend extra money on…
Review of Scrivener by a 25-year-Microsoft-Word-User
Matthew Aguas, running a faith-based inspirational blog with his wife Jojang, wrote a post on how Scrivener converted him from a 25 year-Microsoft-Word-user to a lover of the famous writing software. His post is an answer to this question he raises: “Unlike your typical word processor, it(Scrivener) makes writing, especially long-form writing, a much more manageable and…
The Writer’s IDE – Online Software For Writers by Brian Vogt
It was a pleasant surprise when I found a new project called “the writer’s IDE” by Brian Vogt at kickstarter. Back in 2007, Brian made one of the best writing software I remember. It is “text block writer.” The software had features similar to those of Writer’s Blocks that costs $149. However, text block writer…