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User Guide

Colin Henderson

Welcome to Author! I hope you will like it here. Author is different from other writing software so I strongly urge you to at least skim this document. A Walkthrough Video Introduction is available at augmentedtext.info/walkthrough though we’ve been working hard on updates so some functions will be a bit different today. Author is designed by me, Frode, and was inspired by the philosophy of my mentor Doug Engelbart. If you could Rate Author in the macOS App Store that would be very much appreciated indeed, it really helps small developers like me. If you are not happy with something, … Continue reading User Guide

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Create a Digital Commonplace Book

Colin Henderson

Readers have collected their favorite literary lines for centuries. Now compiling a portable word scrapbook is easier than ever. By J. D. Biersdorfer Feb. 10, 2021 Creating a commonplace book is somewhat like marking your favorite lines in a novel with the Amazon Kindle highlights feature — except your personal one-stop knowledge repository can also include song lyrics, movie dialogue, poems, recipes, podcast transcripts, and any inspiring bits you find in your reading and listening. The commonplace book is not a new concept: Copying down your favorite lines from other people’s works into your own annotated notebook was a standard exercise in Renaissance Europe, and the … Continue reading Create a Digital Commonplace Book

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How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

Colin Henderson

Courtesy of Fortelabs Remarkable focus demonstrated here in this book review. Principles Principle #1: Writing is not the outcome of thinking; it is the medium in which thinking takes place Writing doesn’t begin when we sit down to put one paragraph after another on the screen or page. It begins much, much earlier, as we take notes on the articles or books we read, the podcasts or audiobooks we listen to, and the interesting conversations and life experiences we have.  These notes build up as a byproduct of the reading we’re already doing anyway. Even if you don’t aim to … Continue reading How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens