http://wriging.com/notes/ Wriging Thread: Online solution to my writing snippet overload? en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:09:14 +0000 http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-111415 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:17:26 endellion 111415 <p>I use Zotero to organize research links and notes and <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html">Scrivener</a> (Mac) to organize my stories. For snippets, I use an old-fashioned journal (i.e. paper and ink) which is not high tech, but I can use it anywhere. I use post it flags to color code the journal and choose story ideas from my journal snippets. <a href="http://www.lyx.org/">LyX</a> looks promising, but I haven't installed it on my linux yet...</p> <p>P.S. Scrivener's site has a writing software link list for other operating systems. </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108745 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:31:02 leliathomas 108745 <p>Hi, all,</p> <p>Just thought I'd write back and say that, after trying all of the suggestions here, Zotero seemed to be the most appealing and powerful, but I still wanted a more online solution to storing my data. (I am one to try to move away from personal hard drives all the time...) </p> <p>However, all the suggestions here reminded me of a service I tried a long time ago and didn't quite like but thought I'd give a second chance. I have been using Google Docs for a while, but I was disappointed when their poor folder structure came into play. <a href="http://www.zoho.com">Zoho</a> Writer, however, seems to have improved since I last used it, and I'm quite impressed by their Notebook service as well, which can compile existing Writer documents into notebook-like organization. After some playing around with things, I think I've found this to be the most flexible, and it's online, thus making it possible for me to work on my creative writing, wherever I am with an Internet connection.</p> <p>Thank you all for your suggestions. I ended up finding some really valuable stuff this way! I'd never heard of some of these sites!</p> <p>P.S. - One Sentence Story distracted me for well over an hour... </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108525 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:29:37 Swan 108525 <p>I've been using <a href="http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki">dokuwiki</a> with a tagging plugin for my snippets/notes, and I'm finding that it works a treat. </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108522 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:16:14 MarkWiseman 108522 <p>Hey boss<br /> I think your original idea is a great one, use a wiki. Free hosted or desktop. However, I have been experimenting with <a href="http://www.zotero.org/">Zotero</a> recently. It is rapidly replacing my bookmarks, snippets and notebook. It works as a firefox extension and has tag, search and hierarchical navigation.<br /> Really worth a look.<br /> Mark </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108418 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:40:41 leliathomas 108418 <p>Thanks, guys. I'm going to be giving these a go over the next few days. Will report back if any of it fits just right. :D </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108323 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:50:29 Cas 108323 <p>I spent last weekend at a conference with a girl who was just raving about <a href="http://www.tiddlywiki.com/">tiddlywiki</a>. </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108310 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:54:06 Josh 108310 <p>Have you considered just using a text or Word file and adding tags at the beginning or end of each snippet? You could do this with a wiki as well. Either way, a quick Find or search will scan all of your snippets and tags. It would also simplify the process - the idea of trying to organize snippets of writing into some forced hierarchy system sounds crummy to me. "Should this snippet go in this section or that section? Or should I copy it into both sections?" etc. </p> <p>With an online system with a "page" for each snippet, in search results, you're probably going to just get the title of the snippet page, or a bit of the actual text. If that's the case, you're going to have to come up with titles for each snippet, which sounds pretty pointless. With one big wiki-page / Word file, cycling through whatever tag word you're looking for, the screen will just jump to where the snippet is, so you can see what it is at a glance. </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108296 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:00:07 subimage 108296 <p><a href="http://www.backpackit.com/">Backpack</a>... </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108252 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:42:28 shadowsun7 108252 <p>I use a notebook and a PDA, and most of the time my writing ideas just bounce around in my head until I finds something cohesive.</p> <p>Hrmm. </p> <p>I can't think of anything that was made for this purpose ... but ... try <a href="http://www.urbis.com/">Urbis</a>, <a href="http://www.onesentence.org/">One Sentence Story</a>, and <a href="http://ficlets.com/">Ficlets</a>. They have tagging support, so I guess you can turn it into a repository of writing ideas.</p> <p>Good luck. =) </p> http://wriging.com/writing/notes/11838/p/1/#response-108250 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:26:14 leliathomas 108250 <p>I suppose I'm like every writer, in that I write a lot of snippets before I ever come to a story. I keep all of the snippets, though, of course, as they sometimes become useful in the future. The problem with this is that it's very hard to organize Word documents which consist of only a few paragraphs at most, be that a story scene or idea.</p> <p>So I'm looking for some sort of online solution, maybe a wiki or something. I want to be able to save all of these snippets and also be able to search them via tag functionality. </p> <p>I'm sure there's something out there that either (a) exists solely for this purpose or (b) can be used for this, and I just don't know about it and/or am not thinking of it.</p> <p>Recommendations? </p>