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Testing Digital Highlighters

You can highlight key passages while you read online. Here’s my review of several options.

How I Made a Repository of my Writings, and Why

If you have a lifetime of writings, it can get difficult to sort through it all. I’d like to describe a the system I use to keep track of what I’ve written. Suggestions for improvement are welcome!

Git and the Writer

Imagine if your editors and beta readers could send for your review through a freely distributed application where each participant can work independently.

Index of First Lines

It’s easy to create an index of first lines. If each of your poems is a separate text file, then a handy command line trick will produce an index of first lines. If you have all your poems in a single Microsoft Word document, you can use the index feature.

Following Silliman’s Blogroll

Literary blogs are a vibrant and enjoyable treasure trove. You can still subscribe to them all and join the conversation. I’ve created a tool to help.

Leaving Microsoft Word Behind

I have amassed a collection of files: .doc files, .docx files, .rtf files, .html files, but I set out to convert them all to plain text files."

Scrivener, Git and Version Control for Writers

Scrivener projects are laid out as application bundles with the .scriv extension, and, as it turns out, are amenable to Git version control.

Apps For Writers with Version Control

The way I see it, there are two ways to add Version Control abilities to your writing workflow. One would be to use a word processor specifically built for the task. The other would be to use the word processor you already have, and to use a separate app to handle the version control features.

Useful Features of Version Control Software

Version control for writers, and why it’s useful.

Version Control for Writers

Authors, editors, literary scholars, archivists: all eventually have to do work with multiple versions of a text.

How I Do My Word Processing

‘I am both a “computer person” and a writer. You might be interested to know: how do I combine the two? Here are some thoughts on how I do my word processing, most of the time.’

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