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Serious Creative Writing with a Computer

October 16, 2010 by yuvi

Serious Creative Writing with a Computer: how to use the computer as a productive writing tool. This is an 11 minute presentation about how I use a Mac to get writing done…



You can also view the presentation directly in Vimeo.

[Sorry about the audio quality… It’s not great in this presentation…]

Here are the key applications focused on in this presentation:

  • TextExpander
  • Notational Velocity
  • WriteRoom
  • Scrivener

If this subject interests you, check out these blogs:

  • practically efficient (technology, workflows, life)
  • by John Chandler (creativity, design, and lifestyle)
  • 43 folders (time, attention, creative work)

And this podcast hits on some valuable, creativity-friendly workflows:

  • Mac Power Users (empowering mac users)

Links (and alternatives) to tools I claimed to use:

  • Scrivener
  • WriteRoom (Mac)
  • Alternatives to WriteRoom: Ommwriter Dana (Mac), DarkRoom (Windows), JDarkRoom (Windows & Mac)
  • Notational Velocity (Mac)
  • Alternatives to Notational Velocity: alternativesTo
  • Text Wrangler (Mac)
  • SimpleNote (iPhone)
  • Though instead of SimpleNote, I now use PlainText (iPhone)
  • TextExpander (Mac)
  • Alternative to TextExpander: Breevy (Windows)
  • Dropbox (works on just about anything)
  • LaunchBar (Mac)
  • One list of Mac-based clipboard managers
  • Another list of Windows-based clipboard managers
  • Freedom (Mac, Windows)
  • Default Folder X (Mac)
  • Explanation of Markdown
  • Explanation of MultiMarkdown
  • Explanation of LaTeX

I know this only scrapes the surface, but it’s a start…

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