Gone are the days only Journalist and book publishers are the only people in the business of writing, things have changed a lot more these days and many people are now involved in several activities that involves writing, like writing for business and individual blogs, web copy writing, i-reporting, HARO ( Help A Reporter Out), etc.
Writing can be time consuming and boring as it requires focus and research. However, writers can enhance their writing experience by making use of these 5 must-have productivity tools for writers.
5 must-have productivity PC tools for writers
Note-taking tools
EverNote, OneNote, Dropbox, Google Keep, Google Doc
Evernote is a great tool especially for writers, it will help you achieve the most important part of your writing career by helping you to archive your ideas and research on the go.
Most copywriters are known to have more ideas than they can write with time, with this note-taking app writers can easily take notes of all their great ideas in one place.
All of this note taking apps will creatively help you keep all of your research in one place thats easily accessible in the cloud.
2. Visual and Infographics tools
You want to stylishly present your content to make it look attractive and fun to read and digest, youll need these tool to carefully come up with great pictorial ideas, graphical and image illustrations in lesser time.
Canva is a drag and drop image creation tool with amazing features. You cant believe how easier your writing will be using this tool. Befunky is a lot similar to canva with less but creative features like cartooning, picture editing etc.
Skitch is the sister tool to Evernote, it makes it easy to add arrows and other graphical illustration to you content, and you can easily sync with you evernote account. Other great resources are photo pin, infogr.am, Gimp, visua.ly, screengrab, memegenerator.net, fotoflexer etc.
3. Save multiple web pages for research
OneTab and Pockets.
Both of these tools are available as add-on on FireFox. oneTab will help you to save multiple webpages in a list to avoid your browser too clumsy as you research your copy.
Pocket is a simple tool that will help you to save unlimited webpages online so that you can read later for your copy-writing.
4. Correct grammatical presentation - Grammarly
Grammarly is a great tool that helps you to fish out typographical errors and as well monitor your use of English. The tool is available as a chrome extension only and its in free and premium versions, the free version has only limited functions like correcting basic errors, suggesting you few replacement synonyms etc.
The tool follows about 250 grammar rules to correct you copies, its a must have tool for heavy copywriters.
5. Copy-drafting and copy-writing
Draft and writer
Both of these tools are promising to give you a distraction free writing environment both online and offline.
These tool keep your work private even online to avoid plagiarism and as well give you a lot of other features like word counts, option to export your documents, writing milestones, formatting and ability to save unlimited documents.
Draft is another feature-rich tool like writer. With draft you rarely need someone else to edit your copies. Its known as a copy-editing engine in that it offers tons of features for adept copy-writing.
Over to you now. What tools do you use to enhance your writing experience? Use the comment section to share them and their features.
