by Joe Nassise on June 12, 2009
When I’m writing I often split my time between working at home on my desktop and working somewhere else (often the library or the local coffee shop) on my laptop. As you can guess, this used to create a issue with keeping the various versions of the manuscript straight and up-to-date. At first, I would email the files to myself and load them up on whatever machine I used next. When that became a bit of a hassle, I tried keeping one single master file on a thumb drive and carrying that around with me wherever I went. That worked for a while, until I misplaced my thumb drive for three days and nearly went out of my mind.
Then I discovered Dropbox and I’ve been using it ever since.
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by Joe Nassise on June 15, 2009
Like many writers I know, I’m a pack rat when it comes to information. Anything I see or read or hear that I think might be useful for a story at some point or another gets clipped or bookmarked or jotted down for safekeeping.
The trouble with this is that until recently I didn’t have a useful way of storing this information for future use. My magazine or newspaper clippings went into one big file folder, making it near impossible to find anything quickly. My internet bookmarks were more organized, but there were so many of them that even that system became clunky after only a short time. And I won’t even mention what happened to all those notes jotted down on napkins or the nearest scrap of paper.
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