As I’ve said previously I intend to keep track of the work I’m doing on my top secret project and let you in on some of the things which are helping me pull everything together into a sensible whole. First on the list is Evernote an incredibly useful little application for the technological writer.
I have spent a fair chunk of time walking round with a pen and notepad somewhere about my person so that I can write down ideas as they occur to me and to be quite frank I’ve been useless at using them, you see my handwriting is terrible and if I’m writing fast in a small notebook it goes from terrible to almost completely illegible. I needed another solution and with a quick look round the Google market on my shiny new Android powered phone I’ve found the answer: Evernote.
Evernote is available for Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone / iPod Touch, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Palm Pre / Palm Pixi and Windows Mobile, so more or less any platform your likely to be using (except Linux, sorry open source fans. Still it’ll probably run fine in Wine). It allows you to take notes in a whole variety of forms (Text, voice, snapshots or file uploads) before uploading them to Evernote’s servers where they can then be synced to your other devices. The basic package is free and gives you a maximum amount of 40Mb of monthly uploads which in these times of GB email inboxes etc doesn’t sound much but if all your using it for is making text notes for your upcoming novel you should remain well below the limit.
The application itself (on Android and Windows anyway, I haven’t used it on the many other platforms available) is simple to use and intuitive so you’ll find yourself taking a whole wealth of notes on a whole variety of subjects before you know it. I use it to keep track of those random moments of inspiration which occur throughout the day before taking those many disparate thoughts and hammering them into a meaningful shape the next time I sit down to write.
This is actually looking like the single most powerful tool I have at the moment, those fleeting moments of inspiration are no longer being lost for want of a working pen and the chances of meaningful writing have been massively increased. If you find yourself losing those brilliant ideas that would turn you into the worlds most successful author I seriously suggest taking a look.
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