So far we have looked at taking notes to ensure a constant stream of ideas is available for you to flesh out and turn into interesting and / or informative and / or amusing and / or hopefully all three posts, but capturing these ideas is only useful if you ever get round to getting them out onto your blog for the world to see. Read More…
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A Time to Blog – Taking Notes #2
In the last exciting post on taking notes for blogging I was extolling the virtues of pen and paper and how useful they were. While useful to capture notes and ideas in times of dire emergency (e.g. phone battery dead), it still only forms part of workflow for turning ideas into blog posts. In this post I want to talk about how Evernote can be a valuable tool in a blogging work flow, and how I am adjusting my workflow to use it more and more. The great thing about using Evernote is that it is not just as an aide for blogging, but can keep a significant portion of you digital data safely stored in the cloud and accessible anywhere. Read More…
A Time to Blog – Taking Notes #1
I have a host of blog posts sitting at draft stage. I have had the inspiration and even created the post with a title and perhaps a sentence or two, but I haven’t got round to finishing them. I never seem to have enough time. I figure what is needed is a new workflow. One that works for me. Having created the post on my WordPress site earlier, I’m typing this section on my iPhone. This gets round my little gripe about default post settings in WordPress for iPhone and iPad. Later I can spell check, insert links and pictures on the ‘big machine’. This solves part of my problem about improving post proliferation, but in order for this workflow to be effective, I need to form a strategy around making sure that these post ideas are easily captured and transferred to the blog. Read More…
WordPress on iDevices
I like WordPress. I use it for this blog. I have used other blogging tools. I don’t like them. I like WordPress. Sure it takes a bit of fiddling to get posts to look gorgeous. Sure I spent a few dollars on a premium theme to help with that. And of course I don’t understand what all the functionality available is but I’m sure it’s cool. When it becomes uncool is when I try to use Word on the iPad (or worse iPhone). I want it to be a cool experience so that I can pump out more drivel for the masses to devour. But it’s not cool. Read More…
