Comments on: Brain Tickler Tools for Story Ideas – Part 2

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By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:50:16 +0000

I’m with you, Aliza, on all counts. My brain doesn’t smoke, it freezes – but the result is the same!

I write for a food site, and have just started two blogs, so I’m in desperate need of a storage system for story and post ideas.

Thanks for doing the legwork on this.

By: Scott Blitstein

Scott Blitstein — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:21:57 +0000

For general tidbits of interest I might want to look at later, Instapaper is brilliant.

For research it fails me because it doesn’t lead me anywhere. I can’t consolidate like items or add notes. I have been using Backpack for this sort of thing for about a year now with great success though.

The Publish to Backpack Firefox add-on lets me add clips from the web easily and the page format of Backpack lets me consolidate items by topic.

Evernote has me intrigued though…

By: zzztimbo

zzztimbo — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:41:07 +0000

You’ve failed to mention the most power feature of Evernote: text recognition.

I too much prefer an icon view to pages that I’ve clipped. Evernote will actually allow you to search for words in images that you clip.

Often I will scan in single documents and then take a screen grab with Evernote. I like that I don’t have to run any software to OCR the documents; the text recognition occurs when you sync up with the Evernote servers.

By: Technology Hacker

Technology Hacker — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:11:33 +0000

Thanks Aliza!!

By: Aliza Sherman

Aliza Sherman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:09:10 +0000

Rob – thanks for the tips! I’ve come to realize that when in doubt or when totally confused, just put my Web app dilemma out there and the cyber-cosmos will provide.

Next on the agenda to try: TiddlyWiki. More on that soon.

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By: Rubymac

Rubymac — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:11:38 +0000

Rob has scored a point for reading the manual, although I have to admit that my approach to apps is pretty much the same as yours. I don’t usually bother to read up on one unless I’m already pretty sure I’m going to be using it often. My solution is to be a slow adopter, waiting for guys like you to forge the path, while I stroll slowly along behind.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:47:19 +0000

Evernote has a Firefox extension that saves your clippings to the desktop version of the app, which doesn’t require you to log in every time.

Also, for Google Notebook, you can right-click on the text and there will be a menu option to clip it. That should take care of your major complaints for both apps…