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- From: rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Notes for writing
- Message-ID: <F9iHsB2w165w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM>
- Date: 11 Oct 92 14:53:50 GMT
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- chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
-
- > macgyver@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (MacGyver) writes:
- >
- > >I've been keeping notes of ideas, plots, & characters that come to me
- > >during brain storm, or writing. But the notebook I keep is generally
- > >very disorganized.
- >
- > I wrote a simple database on the Mac. A title field, a text field, a few
- > keywords (plotline, character sketch, idea fragment, setting). I put in what
- > I have, and can either browse through looking for nuggets or do keyword
- > searches looking for specific things. The more complex you make it, the less
- > likely you are to use it and the harder it is to get stuff back out (and the
- > more time you spend filing, meaning you spend less time writing).
-
- Aren't there some PIMs written for DOS PCs that do much the same
- thing? I've seen ads for them in PC Magazine.
-
- That Mac program, ThoughtPattern from Bananafish, sounds
- interesting. What is it? Is it a PIM or was it written
- specifically to help you think or write (as the name suggests)?
- What are writers using? Isn't writing more like managing a project
- than scheduling things (which is what PIMs were originally
- designed to do, I think)?
-
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