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Posted by Jeffery Smith
Jul 17, 2018 at 10:07 PM
I do remember Findings showing up in blogs at about the same time as “Growly Notes”. I didn’t really fiddle around with either, but inasmuch as there are free versions of both, I may take a look at them after the summer semester.
Jeffery
Dellu wrote:
>Have you tried Findings? (http://findingsapp.com/)
>It is designed specifically for scientists. I am also in graduate
>school. But, I am not doing a lab.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jul 17, 2018 at 10:29 PM
Dellu wrote:
>>I do believe that most writing logs can help to enhance writing
>>productivity, if only by instilling in the writer a
>>“don’t-break-the-chain” kind of determination to keep going. Use of
>some
>>of the more complex templates can themselves be a time-sink, however.
>>
>
>Exactly. Writing a log is not about counting words. It is about
>reflecting on your directions as a writer.
>Logging has a great psychological advantage, like DR Andus noted, to
>reduce writer’s block and procrastination.
>
>The interesting part is the writing tasks (todos) themselves can be
>included in the log (be part of the log).
>
>The log woud indeed include more notes on crafting the directions of the
>writing; no making decision about what to write and what to
>exclude….motivations, moods etc.
If you count that as logging, then I am doing a log, too.
I am thinking by way of writing. I usually do that in a separate document, right now in NotebooksApp on Windows and macOS. Keeping notes, todos, problems I ran into, solutions, ramblings…
Posted by Dellu
Jul 18, 2018 at 05:25 AM
I am trying FoldingText for this purpose because it contains all the tools required including notes, todos, schedules,
It very free to adapt to one’s needs; must more fluid than the task managers.
I love the fact that I can write extended notes, todos, and schedule (plan) these todos on the same page. The progress note and todo of a whole dissertation can easily be logged with a single file of FoldingTExt.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 18, 2018 at 10:25 AM
Perhaps Agenda would serve well as a writer’s log? Entries can be grouped in categories and projects, linked to calendars and dates, linked to other entries, tagged, assigned to “persons” (i.e., any sort of entity), grouped in saved searches, etc., contain checklists, and exported anywhere.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM
That’s a great suggestion, Paul.
As an aside—or maybe it isn’t—one of the developers, I believe, also worked on Findings.
Paul Korm wrote:
Perhaps Agenda would serve well as a writer’s log? Entries can be
>grouped in categories and projects, linked to calendars and dates,
>linked to other entries, tagged, assigned to “persons” (i.e., any sort
>of entity), grouped in saved searches, etc., contain checklists, and
>exported anywhere.