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Story Ideas Tools to Keep Track of Your Inspiration
By Deb
You can have all the story ideas a writer could ever want, but if they’re just written on bar napkins, stickies and on the backs of envelopes, your chances of finding that one idea are a lot slimmer than if you have a central place to keep all your story nuggets. Here’s an article from webworkerdaily’s blog about some tools to help you keep those story ideas in one place, in essence creating your very own “tickler” file. Get those ideas organized!
Last week, I took a look at what I called “Brain Tickler Tools” — Notefish and Instapaper — tools that went beyond bookmarking but actually helped me create some kind of writer’s tickler file where I could return anytime and browse over content to get ideas for articles and blog posts. I promised to check out a few more recommended by the WWD community.
I have to say that my experience with two other apps — Evernote (still in limited beta) and Google Notebook — was quite different from the first two I tried. They didn’t work as well for me. Hey, I’ve got to be honest here but also should clarify my criteria for what “works well for me” means. Read entire post
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May 19th, 2008 at 12:08 am
[…] If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here’s a useful tool for saving articles online that you don’t have time to read, but that you don’t want to “save” onto your computer because they might get “lost” or otherwise fill up your hard drive. It was mentioned already in a recent article on The Story Ideas Virtuoso at: Story Ideas Tools to Keep Track of Your Inspiration. […]