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Tools of Interest

Ξ March 7th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Pursuit |

I am currently employing 3 tools that may be of interest.

One is TaskFreak  which is a ph/mysql app that helps a person or multiple persons get and track tasks and their progress and due dates.  It has been great for our photography business since there is often so much to do and hard to keep track of what needs to be done when.

the other tool is something I have used for quite some time, but just pulled out of the closet again to start thinking about The Tree House.  FreeMind is a mind mapping tool that is also free and available on sourceforge.  It helps you visually (I’m a visual person) lay out ideas and thoughts and arrange them graphically.  Then you can turn your map into an outline or text doc and start filling it in.

One more tool, Ywriter, is also helping me organize my docs.  It is a new tool, so a little confusing, but it helps you keep track of all sorts of things for writing books and organizing your story.  See Sean’s post on SeanDareOnline concerning Ywriter.

I’ll let you know how these tools work within the writing environment.

Update - progress on The Tree House

Ξ March 7th, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Thoughts, writing |

Funny how things work out and how complicated they can become. I put together a little teaser essay to try my hand at fiction, and kapow! people don’t want to be left hanging. Well as Sean Dare points out in his writing is hard post, you can get into trouble real quick if you haven’t planned it out. I simply sat there in the car on the way back from Michigan and started thinking about what kind of story and what kind of tone and feel I would want to read and I started writing that. And it turned out ok and it got people to want to know more about Terna and his world. Well, to continue past there, we have to address some issues and some logistics… (more…)