TNT 1: Notebooks galore

[azuire]

Good evening everyone (at least, it's evening where I am). Hope you're all well. Welcome to the first Tips and Tricks column! All future entries will be searchable by the "tips and tricks" tag. Members, if you have an idea for a TNT discussion, feel free to PM it to us!

Allons-y!

I like to scribble. My current notebook has several pages that go on in messy longhand. When I was younger, I had my own typewriter and used that to hammer out my work. But to share writing on the internet, I have to type it on my computer, and for this I use OpenOffice: it has very convenient folders. I sometimes use WordPad if I'm in a hurry. I don't like Microsoft Word because it continually eats my work (and corrects my spelling). Recently a friend of mine bought Liquid Story Binder, and I saw another explaining how to use yWriter. Both seem very satisfied with their respective writing programs. So, what do you think about these programs? Which one(s) do you use? And where do you prefer to write, in notebooks, or on keyboards?

Share away :-)

Comments

[mythochromos]

Everything is kind of scattered for us at the moment. We use an old version of Easy Note for Android to write down memory joggers on the go. (We hear the latest version has obnoxious ads. Sadface.) Gmail for idea capture at work, where we can't access Wave. Wave for outlining and brainstorming. Back to Gmail for first drafts, which then get copied to hess_makes for sharing and Gdocs for archiving a full copy that can later be edited.

This could use some work.

I'm downloading LSB; it looks great...aside from not being a web app or instantly shareable with our partners in crime. Still, hauling all of the ideas back into LSB and keeping full copies there instead of Gdocs is tempting. We'll try it out.

-Shaynin

[mercredigirl]

I have heard nice things about (though I don't actually use) Storybook, perhaps that'd help to keep all your stuff together? :D

(And, wow, you use a lot of software indeed!)