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:
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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