Software for Keeping Track of Reviewers

Posted by tightbeam
Jun 26, 2014 at 01:42 AM

Thanks, Ken. I’ve been using Trello for quite a few months now, primarily as a means to keep track (at a very high, at-a-glance level) of where books are in the acquisition/production/publication process. I just drag them from column to column as they move from submission to publication. Fast, easy, and gives me a nice overview of the company. I can see Trello scaling to a few hundred books, since all I’m doing is moving “title cards”, but I don’t think it could handle records for hundreds of reviewers.

One thing I want to do - and that I think I’ll be able to do with The Brain - is click the title of a book and see which reviewers have been assigned to it, and their statuses; or click the name of a reviewer and see which books I’ve sent him and whether anything has come of it (and whether I should keep sending him free copies of other books). For example, Joe Reviewer asks me for a copy of Book “C”. His name rings a bell, sort of. I want to click his name in The Brain (or whatever program I end up using) and be able to see, right away, that he hasn’t written any reviews of Books “A” and “B”, which I also sent him.