Writer's log

Posted by Jeffery Smith
Jul 17, 2018 at 06:16 PM

As a graduate student, I was expected to keep a daily journal of everything we did in the lab. Not doing so meant possibly making the same mistakes again. If alchemists had kept better records, they would have spent fewer centuries trying to make gold from the same mixture of metals. Now that we are better at information technology, we shouldn’t have an excuse for making their mistakes. That said, I tried using Day One until they decided to go to a subscription format. I haven’t found a replacement, but try to keep some records in Evernote. I may try Tinderbox. DevonThink is too much. Bear and Ulysses are subscription. Scrivener might be good.