One of the things I harp on quite a bit in my book 'The First Draft Done' is finding the appropriate tools to assist in making writing smoother. I'm always trying out new software and putting together my own little custom helper apps. The idea is that your tools and techniques should always be under scrutiny. You should always be looking for better ways to do things.

To that end I've been testing out Tomboy as my note taking and organizing system for my NaPlWriMo stageplay attempt. So far its been performing admirably. It offers a very simple and intuitive interface and the integration in to a desktop panel makes access very easy.

I'm hoping this will continue to scale well as more notes and ideas come together. I'm fairly confident it will. My only concern is the lack of cross platform support. That concern is fairly marginal at the moment though since I'm spending a disproportionate amount of time working in Ubuntu. It just means that I can't add it to my book until it does breach the cross platform divide reliably.

david shute - Nov 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM