Category: Writing
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Scrivener: let me count the ways
If I didn’t already have enough reasons to love Scrivener, George Williams’ post in today’s Profhacker, “Scrivener Makes a Good Transcription Tool” clinches the deal. I wish I’d known about this in April when I was scrambling to transcribe an interview for TECHStyle using ExpressScribe, which was unwieldy and awkward. Go go Scrivener!
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Lions and Tigers and Bears!
This summer I’ve got a number of writing projects on the docket: a book proposal, two articles, and sections of an ebook on which I’m collaborating. In an effort to be more organized and productive, For the collaborative writing piece I’m using Google Docs, and have found that Google Drive is at least moderately helpful…
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Terras on tracking article downloads
I’ve been reading Melissa Terras’s musings on the relative benefits of presenting and representing one’s publications in social media. Today she writes about following up with journals to find out what kind of traction an article is getting in terms of digital downloads. Well worth the read and good practice. Melissa Terras’ Blog: When was…
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Word search
Just read today’s ProfHacker “Writer’s Bootcamp” piece. After submitting an essay within the last hour I’m feeling less a sense of writer’s block and more a sense of writer’s burnout, but I could really have used Visuwords as I edited that essay: how many times can one write “project” in 10,000 words without feeling ridiculous? Answer:…
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Lifehack du jour: Grabbing highlights & notes from Kindle iPad app
Had been wondering why I should take notes on books in the Kindle app if I couldn’t effectively make use of them for my research. Thanks to Tim Wilson (The Savvy Technologist) and Will Richardson I’ve learned how to cut/paste notes from kindle.amazon.com directly into DEVONThink Pro (my document management system of choice). This morning it…