It Was A Dark And Stormy Night ....

Whoa! That's a lot to read, will catch up later but on quick scan,

(1) I was stacking up Ulysses against Scrivener, and the review blogs have slightly confused me. Though both support rich formatting, and can be controlled via settings, which one is more conducive and natural, as in facilitates rich formatting with less key strokes?

(2) Paper Tiger looks promising for filing and indexing.

(3) Out of curiosity, since these apps have desktop , tablet and mobile versions, which ones are you referring in your post? In case you have these apps installed across desktop and mobile, do you see any feature differences?

That's quite a lot of worthwhile share. I have to properly read it later. Thank you.

 

Can you give a day break. I might have few more queries on the "writing/research" tools and then you can jump to "proofing".

 

@kkrish and @Viswamitra, since you both are more experienced in blogging, can you list your writing tools, regardless they are heavy-weight wares or lighter add-ins. I am interested to know.

@kkrish, your space series is absolutely gorgeous with embedded pictures. Is that again crafted in a tool and exported?

 

+1
Thank you @sokanasanah
That was a lot of fabulous information.
I need time to read, assimilate, explore, and decide the various options you have provided.
One day break please.

 

Wow S! I can't thank you enough for starting and spearheading this thread. There is so much to learn from how a professional writer would do things! I used to struggle looking for tools when I was working for corporate PowerPoint presentations when I was working for a public company until 2001. Now, we have dime a dozen tools to research, write and edit.

I am not getting any younger and hence I use my Samsung Note 4 to make notes always if I like a particular subject to do research later. Anything, I like gets bookmarked in all gadgets through sync option. I use Dropbox substantially to gather my research information. I also extensively use Evernote to make a lot of notes. Even though I write only what I am comfortable with in IL, I read a lot in science, technology, healthcare, financial services, economics, management, etc. As you said rightly, the research potential is enormous with internet.

I am eagerly waiting to read your proofing/editing. I belong to old school and hence all my threads are written in Word. I am determined to write no more than one page in IL for each thread and hence sometimes, I struggle with what is more important to convey among so much of data. When I do a lot of edits and rewrites, sometimes, I lose the plot of the thread. When I edit, the sentences make no sense (word salad - in @Gauri03's language) particularly when I add more ideas. When I reread my content, everything looks okay (because I read it many times) and I find mistakes only after I publish it and particularly time window to correct is over.

Viswa

 

@Iravati
Thank you for your wonderful compliment.

I use only MS word for my articles and I upload pictures in the appropriate points in IL itself. Very simple.

I spend a considerable amount of time on the article content and how to present it effectively.
I use a lot of what I learned in my clases on communications, effective writing, and psychology, my current job, reading widely, to fine tune the articles.

I look forward to Sok's upcoming posts to glean more tips and better ideas to improve

 

The layout is very elegant, so I assumed you were able to transfer your article (with embedded pictures) onto the text area. Thanks for getting back.

 

Thank you for holding out @sokanasanah .
I went through each of the writing tools in detail.
Very interesting.
Leaning towards Ulysses also, perhaps your influence. I have some plans to take up serious writing soon and I surely will fall back to your recommendations.
Thanks.