Rather than repeat what has been done well elsewhere let me refer you to a good overview of outlining software for a variety of platforms, both free software and paid, over at Zapier.com: https://zapier.com/blog/best-outline-software/ Some tools are aimed more at check-lists and task management, but I recommend you take a look at the following reviews:…
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Outlining: AllMyNotes Organiser
One of my objectives is to show how you don’t need to spend a lot of money to use a decent outlining tool. There are some excellent tools out there that are either free or are available at minimal cost, such as the example below: AllMyNotes Organiser Windows Only: Free Version, Deluxe Edition ($34) Website: http://www.vladonai.com Organisation…
Tools for Writing 7 – Writer’s Café
For this week’s post in Tools for Writing I have a guest contributor, Simon West. Simon is a new writer, dipping his toe in the waters of fiction and non-fiction and has a long-term goal of writing for a living. Simon has been using Writer’s Café and has volunteered to review it for us. Over to you,…
Tools for Writing 6 – yWriter
We’ll be looking at a PC tool in this part of the series, and it’s one that is squarely aimed at the structured approach. yWriter is produced by Spacejock Software, and as you can probably tell from the developer’s moniker, is designed and built by an SF writer, Simon Haynes. Like some other tools that…
Tools for Writing 5 – FreeMind
As part of my series on tools for writing, I wanted to take a look at, not only tools for drafting and editing your work, but also tools to help you plan what you write and structure your thoughts. In this post we’ll be looking at FreeMind, a mind-mapping tool which allows you to organise…
Tools for Writing 4 – Scrivener
This time in Tools for Writing, I’ll be looking at another Mac product, Scrivener from Literature and Latte. This is not freeware and costs USD $39.95 at the time of writing, but it’s still within the budget of most writers and it has advantages over the products we have been reviewing like RoughDraft 3 and…
Tools for Writing 3 – Jer’s Novel Writer
For this post in my series of posts on writing tools, I’m going to have a look at a free tool for the Mac OS-X platform called Jer’s Novel Writer. The application presents itself with a simple, rich text edit window without formatting menus or clutter. It is focused very much on writing and the…