I wonder if the people raving about note taking tools would just be better served spending a year getting better at writing.
My highest impact essay of the past 5 years was written on an iPhone 5S, in Byword, with shitty internet connection on a beach in Phu Quoc.
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This essay, if you're wondering: elijames.org/the-two-tiers-
It's permanently shifted the conversation about tech jobs in Singapore.
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To be fair, the ideas took about 2 years to develop. But I just dumped the references and links in a nVALT document over the course of those 2 years. (Markdown files, synced to Dropbox).
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If you want to improve: Poynter's got an online course version of the book I used to get good when I first started out poynter.org/shop/self-dire
It's free (for now). It's great. Just go through one chapter, apply to a piece of writing, and then rinse and repeat 50 times.
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I'm still trying to get better at writing today. But none of my efforts are helped by tools (apart from the sort of writing 'tools' that the Poynter course talks about).
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Do you have any highlights of the course? Something that immediately changed your writing?
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This is a great course. I started on it after seeing it in a commoncog newsletter.
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