What tools do you use to blog, dear readers?
Are you a hardcore Microsoft Live Writer or ecto fan or do you stick to ole trusty Wordpress Admin interface?
Do you stick post-it notes to everything blog-worthy or do you trust the long, long list of potential blog articles that float around your head?
Myself, when offline, I carry around a oh-so-hip Moleskine Ruled Notebook with a simple pen and I take notes on anything that may become a nice, juicy blog post. When online, I copy my blog notes to my Backpack @Blog page, which features a long list of potential blog posts and miscellaneous notes.
When I decide to sit down and write something (that is, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night), I open up my list, select a subject and add a Writeboard to my @Blog page. I love 37Signals’ Writeboards because they’re really the most distraction-free wiki-like writing space I can find online, plus they are included free with my Backpack account. And the typing starts.
When my draft is completed, I copy the post text to the Wordpress Admin interface, insert links, images, tags and whatnot, hit Publish and tada! Blogged.
Any similar blogging procedures out there?
7 comments on this post
stelios #1
20.Feb.08
wordpress and weak memory for me.
i didn’t know about the other stuff anyway. too complicated. might check them. some day…
moleskines are cool.:)
Svelon #2
20.Feb.08
Since I don’t see why should I use anything else than the pblogs’ writer (ok, some MS word for the dictionary, too) to write down exactly what I could write in any other fancy looking applet, I just use that
(no need to change my ways since it simply works easily)
And blog posts usually are written like this: Think of something,
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Talk about it with anyone interested (very few unfortunately),
Make a little research on the topic,
Listen on other people’s opinions,
Write my own opinion to that post and pray for someone to argue so that a descent dialog could start. (that last part hasn’t happened yet
And since that nice pblogs tools allow to save any unfinished blogpost I have like half a dozen posts pending there
porcupine #3
20.Feb.08
I tend to write once a week lately but I ‘d like to write more often.
I want my posts to have some integrity and be diachronic, though I know it’s not easy.
Some of my blog spots are written in Google Docs before I copy and paste them to the editor. The rest of them come on the spur of the moment.
John Tsevdos #4
20.Feb.08
I keep all my drafts at Google Docs and when a post is ready I the copy the post text to the Wordpress Admin interface, insert links, images, etc. and then publish it!!! I tried some blogging software, but I guess I’m a web maniac – keep everything on-line, which is not good in some occasions…
adamo #5
20.Feb.08
Well, I carry either a Moleskine or a Filofax with me and take notes there, on anything that I find interest in looking back later.
If it is something I would like to blog about, I transfer it to my Wordpress drafts and work on it from there.
Sugar #6
20.Feb.08
I’m glad to see there’re so many Moleskine fans out there.
Doesn’t anyone else dislike the way the Wordpress admin interface has become increasingly bloated, especially the write page?
KCorax #7
20.Feb.08
For posting, I used to rely on the wordpress editor, but it quickly wears me out. I want to be able to drag images and videos in and out of the writing area etc. Writing online quickly becomes a nuisance when you have 8 blogs (some mine, some guesting) and their different quirks.
I use Onenote for notetaking (it accomodates well the my arbitrary logic paths), in conjunction with Outlook to handle the incoming flow. When it’s time to flesh things out as a post I move it to the live writer.
I also use paper notes for physical meetings. I own this http://rurl.org/ix8 and write on it with these http://rurl.org/ix7 (I have the fountain pen + pencil).