![]() ![]() You can create categories for specific projects or even publications. ![]() Mark it as completed on your tablet, and it marks it as completed on everywhere else. Save an item on your phone, it appears on your laptop. Todoist is a to-do list manager that also works on all devices and operating systems. (Check out the link for a few of the more popular versions.) 3. There are apps available for both iOS and Android, although you can even buy little tomato shaped kitchen timers. It’s useful for any kind of productivity, but especially writers. After three or four Pomodoros, you can take a longer break. Then you reset it and work for 20 minutes again. In the Pomodoro Technique you set a timer for, say, 20 minutes, where you work furiously and then take a 3 – 5 minute break. It’s called the Pomodoro Technique, which is Italian for “tomato.” I know I can’t do anything else within that time until the timer ends. ![]() So I’ll set a countdown timer on my phone for 20 or 30 minutes, and work furiously on a project until the timer sounds. When it comes to increasing my productivity, I might need a little positive reinforcement instead. I could quit looking at social media any time I want. I think it’s just a matter of exercising a little willpower. I’m not a fan of those social media blocking apps that block all access to Facebook for several hours. So if you’re just starting out and still fall into the adverb and adjective trap, this can help you get out of it. While some people may worry that it might strip their writing of personality, I’ve always been of the “don’t describe a verb, use a descriptive verb” school. It grades your writing like the Flesch-Kincaid tool that Microsoft Word uses, to tell you if your writing is too complicated, and it helps find where you can simplify and improve your work. The Hemingway App looks for things like complicated sentences, unnecessarily big words (like “unnecessarily”), and even adverbs and passive voice. If you want to tighten up your writing, I can’t recommend this enough. Hemingway App assessment of this blog post 1. Here are six of the ones that I recommend to new writers. Still, there are a few apps that we writers can all use, regardless of what modern gadgets we use to create our work - laptop, tablet, or mobile phone, there’s some technology that we can all use to make our work better. (However, I do have an affinity for the Hanx Writer app, developed by actor and noted typewriter collector, Tom Hanks to create typing sound effects on an iPhone or iPad.) Not like our illustrator and photographer friends, who have hundreds of apps to play with. Not when we can pretty much function with a golf pencil and the back of an envelope to get our work done. Sure, there are dozens of “simple” word processors out there, that all promise to strip out the unnecessary stuff from a word processing program, leaving you with the bare bones functionality.īut beyond that, there’s not a lot of apps that we writers can really benefit from. There’s not a lot of gadgetry and technology that goes with writing. ![]()
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