Organize and write your novel in the cloud. Getting Started - Gingko. O4D. In my previous post I mentioned that Outline 4D (formerly known as StoryView) has become an integral part of my academic writing workflow, as my tool of choice for writing the first draft.
O4D may sound like a surprising choice for this, and its emergence as such was unexpected for me as well. O4D is primarily known as a scriptwriting tool or an outliner targeting creative writers. It is quite old and it no longer seems to be developed. Originally I thought I would be using ConnectedText, Scrivener for Windows, MS Word 2010 or LibreOffice for writing up my PhD thesis. But through a trial and error process Outline 4D has emerged as the winner. Why not use a dual-pane outliner and writing tool such as Scrivener or a word processor such as MS Word or LibreOffice with navigation pane enabled?
Also, it’s just more helpful to be able to view the “headings” (“titles” in O4D) within the same pane, rather than have to look for them in a second pane. First, let’s take a look at the plainest view. Qute for PC/Mac. Qute for PC/Mac is a text editor with Markdown and TeX support.
Qute offers per paragraph preview, i.e., users can switch between editing the source and viewing a rich text rendering with typeset formulas for each paragraph separately. Qute is currently evolving to include support for user-defined markup languages and transformers via OMeta, see this post. To make looking at a single text file for hours appealing, Qute offers switchable themes with subtle background images and font effects. Also, Qute includes a couple of great open-source fonts that are a joy to work with. Qute's user interface is distraction-free and offers a full-screen mode. Qute reads and writes plain text files using the Markdown markup language for rich text formatting and TeX syntax for formulas.
Qute is built using web technologies. Qute is licensed under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3. Heck Yes Markdown. Simple, beautiful & free Markdown editor for passionate writers on Mac. LightPaper is a simple, beautiful, powerful yet free Text Editor for passionate writers. You can use LightPaper to write any kind of text documents – blogs, articles, notes, READMEs, TODOs, or the next chapter of your new novel. Its simple interface gets out of your way, allowing you to focus on writing. To remove distractions, you can switch to *Distraction Free Mode* to completely immerse yourself in your current paragraph. It comes bundled with a handful of themes and beautiful fonts. You can also easily create your own themes or add existing ones. … takes things to the next level – makeuseof.com … one of the best editors for Markdown bloggers – bitelia.com … if you do a lot of writing for the web, and you’re a Mac user, this is an app you should check out - makeuseof.com New in version 0.7 Most Requested Feature: Navigator synchronization with file system.
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Its 50 million users create family trees, share family photos and organize their genealogical information online. MyHeritage.com has cooperated with AllofMe to leverage the AllofMe platform for helping users view and compare their family photos and events in a super-cool, fun-to-use, chronological timeline. Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars. Wibiya has cooperated with AllofMe to leverage the AllofMe platform for helping bloggers view thier blog archive over a timeline. Ynet, Israel's largest news portal, is using AllofMe's Timelines across its site, in the sports, encyclopedia, and news sections.
Additionally, AllofMe developed for ynet a back-end system which enable instant timeline creation of any given topic, by searching their 10-years archive and filter out keywords or tags. WorkFlowy - Organize your brain. OmniOutliner for Mac. Bigspud's lists - Checkvist.