After several free trials, beta tests and tribulations of desktop writing software I have finally decided on my tool of choice. iA Writer helps me take notes and create the stories I want to tell (not
calling myself a writer or author yet).
The criteria I needed:
Mission accomplished.
on the desktop ^
on the iPad ^
“Five hundred years later, Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks are around
to astonish and inspire us. Fifty years from now, our own notebooks, if
we work up the initiative to start writing them, will be around to
astonish and inspire out grandchildren, unlike our tweets and Facebook
posts. ““The more than 7,200 pages now extant probably represent
about one-quarter of what Leonardo actually wrote, but that is a higher
percentage after five hundred years than the percentage of Steve Job’s
emails and digital documents from the 1990s that he and I were able to
retrieve.”– Walter Isaacson
How much of our digital selves are trapped inside social
media that we cannot retrieve, use or archive?
Digital note taking is fine but what happens when I am offline and need
to gather my thoughts?
I have been documenting my research and thoughts in multiple and
redundant formats and platforms hoping to find a system that sticks. Pen
and paper so far stands the test of time. I hate the act of physical
writing and my penmanship sucks but here goes.
Attempts at putting ten year old thoughts and plots into a novel is frustrating. Finding the right/write tools even more so.
They matter and then they don’t.
Or another working title: what a tangled web I weave.
Delving back into coding but this time with some basics like javascript (finally).
Researching the three main tent poles to a story that’s been in my
head for about a decade. Historical adventure/mystery, the science
behind the story, and an exotic location.
My brain hurts and I need sleep but don’t want to lose momentum. Bring snacks and sodas.
Need to work out how to regain control here because everything is spiraling
I just rang in the longest day of the year by hiking up and camping on a mountain west of and overlooking the city.
No tent, no fire, just me, the sleeping bag and a few essentials under a pine tree.
Bonus: it was international hike naked day.
I need more of these micro adventures to recharge my body and soul.
Why do I post consistently on someone else’s platform and not my own?
Yes, it is more social compared to the silence of my own thoughts.
Same goes for Instagram. I have my own photo website, why IG?
That’s it. I just answered my own question. This is for me and for introspection.
Really enjoying watching the kid work on her own images and website.
Found a photo from 2010 of my young photographer with her newly inherited Olympus. Also testing out the new logo watermark.
