Comments on: How to Use Evernote for NaNoWriMo, An Evernote Employee Shares His Tips

By: Dirk Boersma

Dirk Boersma — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:46:06 +0000

I suggest you try OmniOutliner or Scrivener. The first one is a full-scale outliner, the other a very flexible and complete writing app that can be used for outlining, I think.

By: prevoz do aerodroma

prevoz do aerodroma — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:29:37 +0000

I’m not sure why but this site is loading very slow for me. Is anyone else having this problem or is it a problem on my end? I’ll check back later and see if the problem still exists.

By: Hugh O'Donnell

Hugh O'Donnell — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:22:16 +0000

@jamietr: I’d love to visit your website, but McAfee keeps throwing up this big yellow warning screen asking if I really want to go there. The cite suspicious activity.

You might want to get them to reassess your site. I’d like to go there and learn from you, but as long as I see the yellow sign, I can’t risk it.

Best regards,

Hugh

By: Raymond Yee

Raymond Yee — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:05:11 +0000

I love evernote but also find it lacking as an outliner. I’ve tried OmniOutliner but haven’t quite gotten the hang of it. I still cling to EccoPro, which I run in Windows XP in Parallels on OS X!

By: pdw

pdw — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:43:31 +0000

I also use Evernote in similar ways for NaNoWriMo. I make clippings and notes of ideas, dreams, characters, whatever, for my “Story Clip” notebook, instructional writing material and templates in a general writing notebook, and as Nano approaches, I create a new notebook for that year’s Nano. Review my story clip file and pull ideas that interest me the most and seem like they could work together into the Nano notebook. Use Freemap to start a mindmap on the novel. Start pulling together character descriptions, each in their own note, in the Nano notebook. Clip pictures of people who look like the characters and merge them into the character notes. I did some exercises from the “snowflake” method this year, and added the tagline, plot synopsis, etc. to the Nano notebook. As I am out and about doing other things — running/exercising, shopping, riding the bus, whatever, and other ideas come to me, I use my phone quickly jot down additional ideas in the Nano notebook, or use Siri to send my Evernote address an e-mail with my thoughts.

I do my actual writing in Celtx (or “Write or Die” and then paste to Celtx), but everything else goes into my Nano notebook until the novel is done. Then I copy any research and backup to Celtx, and archive the notebook.

By: Bill Bittner

Bill Bittner — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:23:13 +0000

I’ve used Evernote in my writing. But one area that I tried to use it, but couldn’t, is Outlining. I once tried to have one note per chapter, and keep the notes in order via a numeral at the beginning of the title. But that eventually became unwieldy. So now, though I will still do general notes and clips in Evernote, I’ll do my outlining in a different program, such as Google Docs or via a MindMap.

How do you do your outlines?

By: Mel Walker

Mel Walker — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:20:47 +0000

Thanks, Jamie, and the luck of the Bard to you! I’ve got my first line all ready to go! Sadly, my second line isn’t as ready.

By: Jamie Todd Rubin (@jamietr)

Jamie Todd Rubin (@jamietr) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:49:17 +0000

Good luck, Mel! Just a few hours to go here on the east coast!