Productivity

Finding Productivity in Writing

Well I’m back from my brilliant holiday and ready to blog again. Since coming back I’ve been really busy what with Y’s 12-week ultrasound and of course, finishing my book.

On that last thought, with the deadline looming, I’ve found some great, and free, apps that have really improved my productivity when writing. I don’t know about you but when I’m on my computer I often get distracted with emails and the Internet. When work’s going slow I tend to think that the odd five or ten minutes surfing the net will really help to recharge my batteries. Of course ten minutes usually turns into an hour or more as I surf from one blog to another, one website to the next. Well no more thanks to these free apps.

A while back I heard of a great piece of software called Writeroom… Unfortunately Writeroom is only available for the Mac and as I use a PC I’ve been unable to use it. Then I found Q10, Jdarkroom and Pyroom, all of them clones of the Mac Writeroom.

Getting Productive With Ubuntu

A few years ago, if you mentioned the word Linux to anyone, they instantly pictured you as some nerdy geek… Today however, such an image is wholly inappropriate, with modern Linux distributions being as easy to install and use as either Mac OSX, Windows XP or Vista. [...]