How I Work: Will Duquette

Last updated on: April 16, 2015 at 11:38 am by Thomas L. McDonald

How I Work: Will Duquette 2015-04-16T11:38:04-04:00 Thomas L. McDonald

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Will Duquette completes the ora et labora circuit by adding a How I Work to his How I Pray entry. Here’s a little bit:

I use Evernote for storing general notes I’ve got no better place to put—ideas for blog posts, for example. I’ve drafted a fair number of blog posts in Evernote as well; it’s conveniently available no matter what device I’m using, and then I can copy the post into WordPress. Although, one of the reasons I’ve been using Scrivener more is that I can copy Scrivener’s rich text formatting into the WordPress “visual” editor pane. That doesn’t work well with Evernote, for some reason (or it didn’t last I checked).

When I’m brainstorming, my go-to application is a mindmapping tool called FreePlane. It enables me to get complicated ideas down quickly; and (crossing over to my day job for a moment) it’s a great tool for taking notes on a meeting and working out details, plans, and action items with a group. I put it on my laptop and display it on a big screen, and it’s easy to move things around and add things until consensus is reached. That’s another killer app.

I use the Kindle app on my desktop to search for things in e-books I’ve purchased; and the kindle.amazon.com web site makes it easy to access the passages I’ve highlighted, which is handy when putting together blog posts.

I use Verbum on all devices for scripture study and other theological reading. It’s expensive; I bought it in a weak moment a couple years ago, and so I use it, but I’m no kind of power user.

Oh, and Pandora. Pandora is absolutely essential.

Read it all at Will’s blog, Cry Woof.

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