TNT 1: Notebooks galore
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inkstainsGood 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 :-)
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 :-)
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Date: 2010-06-29 04:41 pm (UTC)My philosophy notes are less precise and a lot more haphazard. Anything goes. Other courses I don't really take notes in. XD whups.
I carry a notebook everywhere for the jotting of ideas. One is full of graphs for various ridiculous things: relationship dynamics, sliding scales of morality, etc. etc. These are my favourite. I will keep them and look at them fondly and with hilarity in ten years.
I have romantic visions of someday having a loft somewhere and typing madly by typewriter against a sunset while wearing suspenders and a fedora and pinstriped pants and smoking a pipe, only I don't smoke, so a licorice pipe will have to suffice.
Word = bane of my existence, but I use it out of habit and personal compulsion for fiction. Word 2007 is two thousand shades of not worth my time. I stole Word 2003 from my ex-boyfriend and, if I can help it, intend never to update. Straightforward interface. No small share of glitches, but acceptable.
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Date: 2010-06-29 04:43 pm (UTC)I write papers on Macs at the university so I guess I use MacWord 2007 there. Best Word option. I am satisfied with this but less so with Macs in general (*ducks*) so it's perfect for paper-writing, given that I have no desire to do more than absolutely necessary on a Mac.
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Date: 2010-06-30 06:13 am (UTC)I had one spiral notebook. It got on my nerves, because I scribble at all sorts of absurd angles (upside down, sideways, at odd angles across the page, not to mention the ARROWS). Class notes are MUCH neater. It's like a whole different breed of person is writing each set of notes.
I despise Word. It continually corrects my spelling, which I find incredibly irritating, because some words end up spelt the British way, and some are edited to American. Inconsistency does not a happy azuire make.