Gina Trapani’s post on Flashbake led me to Cory Doctorow’s discussion:
Every 15 minutes, Flashbake looks at any files that you ask it to check (I have it looking at all my fiction-in-progress, my todo list, my file of useful bits of information, and the completed electronic versions of my recent books), and records any changes [...]
I’ve long been quoting Johnson’s Tool for Thought essay on his use of DevonThink as a research database. I’ve just come across a post he made to BoingBoing updating the approach he outlined earlier. After collecting all his snippets of text and quotes, he drags relevant ones into chapter folders, creating a first round of [...]
Also tagged research, techneNota Bene: The OneNote Blog : Learn from a pro: Real-world draft management in OneNote 2007.
Video screencast of a writer discussing their use of OneNote for draft management. This video underlines my growing dissatisfaction with this program–the writer is essentially overtaken by the binder metaphor, and ends up thinking of it explicitly like a file [...]