Click to enlarge the screenshot. From Rememberthemilk.comOne more organization system: A Firefox plugin that integrates Remember the Milk, the online task-management service, and Gmail. It has some nifty features: You can automatically create tasks by adding tags to messages (for example: every mail tagged To Do can become a task with that e-mail’s subject line) [...]
I’m on an organization kick lately. The most recent of my experiments has been Things, a Mac-only organizer program. It’s in alpha right now, and is free for testing (though the final version will not be free), so go sign up and grab it. What you’ll get for your payment of $0 is a fairly [...]
Well, it’s not a Moleskine. But for Christmas my sister went to an indie book shop and picked up the 2008 Slingshot Organizer, a move that I had previously thought was “so not her.” (Go sis!) The thing is printed by an all-volunteer collective in Berkeley and is just a tetch more interesting than your [...]
If you’re not familiar with Roy Peter Clark’s “50 Tools for Writers” you ought to be. These tools aren’t literal hammers and nails (pens and pencils), or even pieces of software. Rather, these tools are rules and guidelines for crafting a sentence, a paragraph, a story. They range from the overarching (“Work from a plan”) [...]
Previous Tuesday’s Tools here! Rule 1 of computing: Don’t trust the machine. Rule 1.5: Don’t do what I did, which was trust the machine. Rule 2: Have backups. Preferably more than one. This all brings us to Mozy, a backup widget you install on Mac or PC. From there, it’s almost automatic and (almost) idiot-proof. For [...]
Textalyzer, a free online tool, combines Microsoft Word-style readability statistics with detailed “instance counting” for up to (it says) 1000 words. That means it will display a table with up to the 1000 most commonly used words in your document; I doubt anyone would ever need that many, but it’s there if you need it. Textalyzer [...]
flickr: Big-E-Mr-G Get more Tuesday’s Tools here For freelancers, getting paid is just as important as writing. (I wish it weren’t so!) But what if you’re not making as much as you want to be? Inspired Author asks writers to think about how much they want to make per hour and how to turn that [...]
This week’s tool helps writers get what they arguably need most (next to a pen and notebook): more books. I have a problem with books, and Friends of the Library 25-cent sales, and yard sales and used book stores. My problem is that I have too many of them. So clearly I need Paperbackswap.com the [...]
For a while, when I was just getting started as a freelancer (which was ever so long ago) I was visiting FreelanceWritingGigs every morning trolling for leads. The jobs posted here are free to look at and are culled from tons of Web sites, many of which are either filled with junk (“write for exposure,” [...]
I spent all day at the DMV yesterday and all I can think of is the screwdriver I used to swap out my old plates for the new. I am officially registered in Virginia now! Which means that I bailed on providing any useful information today. Instead, I’m going to open up the floor: What [...]