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Into The Darkness //tools

I have made an account for writing, by the way. It has no internet connection (no shortcuts to my connections, anyway) and nothing much in Start menu*. There’s no desktop shortcuts either, only a few ones on Quick Launch panel. Those are:

  1. EverNote, where I keep my notes. Its skin resembles Media Player 9 and it looks ugly with anything but the blue XP theme, which I never ever used, but I kinda like how it works with tags. Anyway, I’m still to meet a PIM I really like. OmniOutliner looks promising, but I don’t have a Mac for now.
  2. A folder (directory) with my texts. BTW, this year’s projects’ subfolders names start with projects’ numbers for extra consistency. Petty stuff, but so is writing.
  3. Atlantis Word Processor. Its kerning is ugly and the latest version, 1.6.1.5, has troubles with Russian, but typewriter sounds are a killer feature.
  4. Foobar2000. One of the best-sounding player for Windows. They say it’s not the best, but I don’t have a hi-end hardware anyway, and I like the tagging/browsing/renaming features.
  5. Projects.xls. It holds a page with my weekly undertakings, so I can review it in the evening and write some tasks for the next day.
  6. XNote Stopwatch. I use it for timeboxing when I have to. The other times I simply make a playlist of the needed duration.
  7. dailybak.bat. That mama backs up all my projects. I don’t want to relogin to finish my daily session.

That’s it. It’s been about six weeks now, and I must admit it does work. Granted, sometimes I need to look something up on the net, so I have to make a note for myself, either on paper or in EverNote, and research later. But in my experience, the bulk of writing is actual typing or, at least, solitary pondering, and in this secluded account I really can write.

Later on further problems.
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* I’ve moved all the shortcuts from “c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs” to “c:\Documents and Settings\s\Start Menu\Programs”, which is the folder of my generic, non-writing account.

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