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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Do you have any highlights of the course? Something that immediately changed your writing?
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I read the book when I was 17, I think. It's changed nearly every part of my writing.
Here's one: if you put the noun and the verb of a sentence close to each other, at the beginning of the sentence, you can make that sentence however long you wish.