Posts under ‘Tools for Writers’

There are quite a few software packages designed to help writers deal with their text in the form of blocks.  Generally, the idea is to give writers a way to create and use notes on the computer in the same way they could do with notecards and stacks of paper in the real world–only better.
The best I’ve [...]

Tia Nevitt of Tia’s Writing Blog has put together some great information to help writers get the most out of Microsoft Word.  The principles she’s outlined can easily be extended to other word processing tools as well, though you’ll need one that supports outlining features to make full use of her suggestions.
This information’s great for [...]

With the free Zoho Creator, setting up a database is as easy as Click & Drag.  It literally will take you moments to get up and running.
If you’ve already got data in Excel spreadsheets, etc., Zoho Creator’s easy import functionality will let you add it in seconds.
It’s really designed for ease-of-use.  Seriously, anybody can do it.
If you [...]

You might want to take a look at a new tool called Tabbery if any of the following describes you:

you hate having to constantly move desktop windows out of the way to see other ones;
you sometimes wish you could save your current set-up of files, webpages, etc. for easy access;
you ever want to share your current [...]

KallOut lets you search the web from any web page, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel or Powerpoint) document or Adobe PDF.  It’s easy to use and extremely helpful. It’s free, too!
Basically, when you highlight a word or set of words, KallOut adds a little icon above the highlighting.  You click on that and it gives you [...]