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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 08 2013 @ 09:11 PM EDT |
So, think about it from the perspective of "What does she waste time
at?"
Having said that, you need to be careful: Not all time "off-task" is
wasted...those creative ideas come from somewhere, and that is often
daydreaming...or goofing off with other creative folks...or...
For productivity:
Off-load tasks not essential to the creation and sale of the writing that Janet
herself doesn't need to do. Includes housework, accounting, bill-paying, and
all stupid paperwork and phonecalls.
A second or third device of appropriate form-factor (smartphone on network,
tablet, laptop, etc) can be carried anywhere, keep a calendar, browse the web,
and grab fleeting ideas. You need a full-sized keyboard if long passages will
be written on this device.
Franklin Covey does this in paper with a calendar book and a pad. I just use
the calendar book.
My cruddy 40WPM touch-typing can easily outrun my thoughts. So I think that's
important.
Lucene might be good for searching for snippets in her writing...it's basically
google for the desktop.
I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my relatively simple finances. Others hire
accountants.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 04:02 AM EDT |
TeX was literally *designed* to do books. So find her a wysirwyg editor for it
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| Authored by: squib on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 09:35 AM EDT |
| I have the reference manager Zotero invaluable when writing
lengthy verbiage and wont to quick find the original source and other notes I
made in preparation to writing.
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