bleedforyourtypewriter: Ok here is a compilation of all the software and useful tools I’ve com
bleedforyourtypewriter: Ok here is a compilation of all the software and useful tools I’ve come across whilst writing. Some of them I’ve reviewed on here already, more coming soon. Got an idea? Well get planning! Here’s some useful outlining, brainstorming and mind- mapping software: Coggle Lucidchart Mural.ly Blumind MindMeister Mindmaple Mindomo NovaMind Popplet Scapple Tree Sheets Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) XMind FreeMind Oak Outliner Work Flowy The Outliner of Giants Just want to get writing? You want a word processor: Gedit Google Docs Kate LibreOffice Microsoft Word My Writing Spot NoteTab Open Office Quabel Ted Vim yEdit Making notes? Here you go: CintaNotes Evernote KeepNote Memonic MS OneNote Scribe SuperNotecard Tomboy Timelines giving you a headache? Try these: Aeon Timeline Dipity Preceden Tiki-Toki Timeglider Timeline TimelineJS TimeToast Now perhaps you want to organise those notes. Got a lot of research? Character sheets? Images? Well here’s some tools to keep all that together: Liquid Story Binder XE LitLift PangurPad Scriptito Scrivener Writer’s Café Yarny yWriter Are you easily distracted? The following tools will keep you on track: Dark Room FocusWriter JDarkRoom Momentum Writer OmmWriter Q10 Writemonkey Zen Writer Even more productivity tools to help keep you focussed on your task: Cold Turkey FocalFilter Freedom InternetOff Keepmeout Nanny Productivity Owl RescueTime SelfControl SelfRestraint Simple Blocker StayFocusd Strict Workflow Time Doctor Waste No Time Website Blocker So you’ve got something down? Need to edit? AutoCrit EditMinion Grammarly LyX SlickWrite SmartEdit After the Deadline All done? Perhaps you’d like some e-publishing tools: Acrobat InDesign Calibre CutePDF Jutoh Mobipocket Creator PagePlus PageStream PDFCreator Scribus Sigil Turns out I’d forgotten about screenwriters, so here goes: CeltX Plotbot Scripped ScriptBuddy Trelby WriterDuet Slugline Page2Stage Highland I’m feeling generous, have some more cool stuff: 750 Words One Page per Day Oneword Penzu Write or Die Written Kitten Focus Booster Spaaze AutoREALM (Map building software) ETA: After a request I’ve added screenplay software to the list. -- source link