That’s what makes it so amazing and worth buying on iPhone and iPad (17$ investment). Now if you are mindmapping on your Mac, iThoughts will read most of the mind mapping formats. This format works for your mindmap, as well as for your Outliner. iThoughts is great piece of software, simply because it supports OPML. Now Dropbox is critical here for people who love linear thinking. So if it feels fun, I revisit the file and play with it some more. I revisit mindmaps that are created specifically for my ebook. It syncs via Dropbox with my iPad, where I come to later on to nurture and grow more ideas. He uses his iPad instead, which is also great for this! Unlike David, I am using iThoughts on my iPhone primarily. If I feel connected to an idea, when I review it again, I usually put it somewhere in my MindMaps, or simply createa a new mind map and throw out a couple of concpets that I want to follow. I process my inbox daily, and it contains tons of my thoughts. I make a snippet of it, and just save it to my inbox. For that matter he is using quite the number of tools, and I’ve acquired them all.įirst of all, being the big fan of Evernote that I am, if I come to an idea, I capture it in Evernote. The way this article came to life, came a lot through his point of view of cooking ideas. Now, he’s using all sorts of tools to “cook ideas”. While I was listneing to the crew at Mac Power Users (Thank you Katie, thank you David!) I saw how they were doing it.ĭavid is one of the rare cool lawyers (apart from Daniel Gold), who retained his coolness factor, because he’s such a geek! □ And I love him for it. Now since this article is actually a response to a blogging workflow, I want to write how my blogging workflow looks like. They won’t be able to connect with your voice, and they won’t be compelled to come back to your blog. I am telling you, if you force yourself to write, your audience will notice it. I did dilute it countless times in the past, because of it. I would rather not publish, than dilute my value. But I don’t have the urgent need to push out mediocre contnet. I want to be a writer, and it clearly shows in my writing. Every day, when I wake up, a part of my morning routine is to write 1000 words. I made writing excersise as a part of my daily routine, without the pressure to produce. If you are forcing yourself to write a blog post, you are doing it wrong. ![]() Sharing our amazing unique experience and a point of view. We’re doing it for ourselves and our readers. Your blogging can rise above the hobby level, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be boring as a day job. Something that is compelling you to come back to it, is most certainly something that you will be able to do in the years to come. Sustainability is way easier if you are having fun while doing it. In order for your blog to thrive you have to make it sustainable. There are no internet riches for those who aren’t the crazy ones. To all of you, I have a simple tip: You are better of finding a job. I know that there are thousands upon thousands of people who will try to make money out of blogging. So the biggest piece of advice would be, I will repeat myself here: Keep It Simple.īlogging isn’t blogging if you aren’t enjoying while doing it. And more often lately, I tend to do it from there. The whole process should be watered down to that level, that you can even do it from your iPhone. Now in order to make your blogging fruitful you really need to keep it simple. That joy is something enough that will make me a happy blogger in the long run! □ So Timo, I want to thank you one more time for reminding me of the importance of joy of blogging. My blog is my passion, and if I don’t feel passionate enough about doing something on it, I tend to skip it. Timo described his new workflow in 10 steps, working on all the things that are really important, if you want to view your blog as your profession. ![]() The whole process of publishing the article was just too much for me to go trough sometimes. I felt from his writing that his blogging efforts wore him down on ocassions, as they did to me. There are countless times when I felt like I didn’t want to write. This article was inspired by Timo Kiander’s approach to Blogging Workflows.
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