I have a couple of scholarly blogs, and I am always on the lookout for a note-taking program that will provide a good home for my rough drafts. For one of the blogs, I have, over a period of several years, been using Evernote. It handles the task very efficiently, but EN annoys me constantly because it is so ugly on the screen, and its formatting is so inconsistent. I would love to escape it if I can.

The problem is that alternatives I have investigated -- including RightNote, MyInfo, and OneNote -- fail one key test. With Evernote I can simply drag and drop images into WordPress. The other programs don't allow me to do that, so the process of adding an image to a post becomes moderately time-consuming.

Is there any other program that will do this trick?

I believe Microsoft Word has a "blog post" template and automation that supports posting to WordPress.

You might check with the WordPress support site for suggested Windows platform applications that support creating, editing, and posting to WordPress.

Thanks for the suggestions. I had already begun some experiments using the OneNote > Word > Wordpress route. It offers interesting possibilities, but unfortunately the text formatting tends to become a bit scrambled.

Just a small postscript. I've done some further experiments this afternoon with the OneNote-Word-WordPress technique. I see that I can easily remove text formatting in Word; of course then some of that formatting has to be restored in WordPress, but fortunately at least links are preserved in the process.

I wonder if anyone else here as used this process, and if so whether you have any advice for me.

Hi,

I found Word a good starting point for getting formatted text into Wordpress.
Wordpress correctly interprets bold, italics, underline, hyperlinks, numbering, bullet points and - most importantly for me - the Word paragraph stylesheets (Headline 2 is turned into , etc.). I just have to copy and paste the Word document into a Wordpress page.
What I never tried is inserting images in the Word document and copying that into Wordpress.

In my experience the Word2Wordpress route works a bit better than the LibreOffice2Wordpress route and much, much better than the Textmaker2Wordpress route (I prefer Textmaker over Word and LibreOffice because of its great Duden Korrektor spellchecher and grammar checker).

What is it that does not work for you, WSP?

Oh, sorry for that. The problem is: I wanted to say that Word "headline 2" stylesheets are correctly translated into h2 headlines.

The main problem I had was that the conversion from Word to Wordpress reduced the font size and screwed up the line endings (i.e., one empty line between paragraphs became two), but, as I said earlier, I got around these difficulties by removing the text formatting while the document was still in Word. That meant that once it was transferred over to WordPress, I had to be redo italics and boldface -- but fortunately the links were still intact.

I suspect there may be some way of reformatting in Word without completely stripping away all the local formats. I'm still investigating.

Compatibility of its minimalist rich HTML export combined with its ability to generate a hyperlinked table of contents in the HTML export was what initially drew me to NoteCase Pro. It's just export with automatic opening in a browser, hit Ctrl_U to view the page source and clip from it, then paste it into a blog or any web app that lets you edit raw HTML Most outliners that have HTML export capability either won't do a hyperlinked table of contents or depend on HTML markup that online web apps don't support.

My only gripe other than it being somewhat cumbersome to do hyperlinked footnotes is that NoteCase Pro doesn't support blockquoted text, but I wrote a script that cures that and adds support for other unsupported HTML markup during the export process. I just add the tags in the note, which makes them escaped tags in the raw NC Pro markup, then the script converts them to unescaped tags during the export.

Notecase Pro looks interesting, but I gather that there is no iOS version?