Often the work I send off to editors is not really organised or stored too logically but I do try to use Diigo to tag my pieces wherever feasible. This self-hosted WordPress blog often stores numerous drafts that may see light or moulder. My work is spread across a range of Microsoft, Google and Apple products. Usually, as soon as possible, I try to digitally jot ideas down or just start on the project. Ideas for family stuff, journal articles, blog posts, lessons, school, university sessions, lines of poetry, descriptions and books come to mind while in full stride but I rarely stop and record anything. I like walking and often do my best thinking while out and about with my camera, wandering to the next destination or on public transport. Now I want to spend more time creating and sharing rather than fooling around with tools. I am close to updated workflows being (mentally and practically) in place having spent quite a deal of time experimenting in recent months. One just has to hope their policies are truly ethical and that security is a priority.Īt the moment, I am close to being comfortable with the tools assembled for photography, music, writing, sharing, storage and being totally in synch, across devices, especially when travelling. It would be good to be less reliant on big (or little) corporations that store my data but the reality is that one has limited choice. I could make an embarrassingly long list of tools that are on my devices which, after my initial explorations, are no longer in regular use. Increasingly, I want to make processes simple and have my stuff synched. Like you, I am always (obsessively) exploring these online tools, software, storage and the plethora of apps that appear in Reeder or via Twitter. Managing writing projects has proven to be the most unresolved workflow. There are areas where I was never really satisfied, constantly experimenting with new online and cloud services, especially for backing up documents and images.
Mostly, this has been with photography but also, with the demise of Google Reader on July 1st, other long-running workflow habits, that I was very happy with, are in need of a rethink.
Workflow, for a whole range of professional needs and personal pleasures, is constantly being disrupted lately as tools and processes morph daily or my understanding deepens of what is possible. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person’s skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding. …enjoyable activities are not natural they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. If you don’t, you’re apt to find something you didn’t expect and get discouraged.
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can’t be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
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