How do you organize?
By tiggerific
@tiggerific (230)
July 10, 2010 4:48pm CST
I have recently started to write and submitting articles online. I purchased an organizer to scribble my workings, research, ideas and such. As I am researching and reading online quite often other topical ideas come to mind with added info I feel I need to jot. Obviously this takes up extra time as I am jumping across numerous pages in my book.
How do you organize yourself when writing to a topic?
Are you like me and have sections of a jotter scrawled with random words, details and ideas for other things?
Do you copy paste parts of info you come across online and save them to a word document?
When your article is finished what do you do with your workings?
Do you write it up in odd bits and have it logged under sections on your hard drive?
I would love to hear from you and how your crazy space is kept within a certain order, if any at all.
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6 responses
@geojb90 (470)
• Galati, Romania
10 Jul 10
Very interesting discussion tiggerific.
When I'm researching I sometimes copy and paste paragraphs that are important in word documents and have it in a folder separate from everything else in order not to mix it with other documents. Also I have a notebook near me at all times and I write notes each time I get an idea or when I find something interesting and I want to find out more about it. Noting something on the paper helps me save time and it's more handy then opening up new documents, especially if you have a slow computer.
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@tiggerific (230)
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10 Jul 10
I have so many odd bits, parts that didn't make it but could be used for another topic. Sections for work in progress and things from articles finished.
What do you do with your research once you have finished a write up?
I am so happy to know that I am not the only one surrounded by scribbles and spiders. =)
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@geojb90 (470)
• Galati, Romania
11 Jul 10
Well after I'm finished writing I archive my research in a file and put it somewhere where I can easily can access it again because most of the time I revise my research more then 2 times.
When you research do you use books / magazines as well or only just research on the internet ?
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@tiggerific (230)
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11 Jul 10
So do you read just 'research' books or are you a book worm too? I read a lot of books for entertainment purposes, though I do learn a lot from the writer as I go. You know you should treat yourself to a new chair. If you are working hard then you deserve to be comfortable xx
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@shiloh_222 (5479)
• Philippines
11 Jul 10
hi. i use my computer to do that. my files are all softcopies. it's part of my personal and professional lives.
as for beyond my virtual world, i do it little by little. one section of my room at a time. or else i would get overwhelmed.
happy mylotting
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@tiggerific (230)
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13 Jul 10
You sound like a well organised person. I on the other hand are the complete polar opposite. Though I do make the effort and try, I think my life was just destined to be a little untidy lol.
@vulgarlittleprincess (919)
• Canada
11 Jul 10
I love lists, I make lists for everything. I find they keep me organized an on track. I also hard write little jot notes in notepads. I keep a day planner, tho not as well as I would like to I often forget to write things in. I copy and paste things from the internet and put them into a word document and then print the information. I have trouble reading alot of information on the computer screen so it is easier for me to print it and then hilight the relevant info.
I do not write articles online but rather use this process for school work or my own projects.
@chipesterkhan (2925)
• Philippines
11 Jul 10
i have a journal that i write into
and like you i also save bits and pieces that i come upon online for further reference
:D
@tiggerific (230)
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13 Jul 10
What do you do with all this information though, when you realises you are done. You really won't need to use it again. Do you still hoard it for that 'just in case' moment? Or do you edge towards the bin, kitchen and virtual included, and clear it all out?
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
11 Jul 10
I use Microsoft word and write notes and I copy paste notes from the net to it. Then I have folders in my documents in my computer where I have folders for each site. So when I scribbling note I save them first as To do's, notes with the dates in the save as note or the to do's.
When I submit articles for publication I go ahead and save to the folder that is for the site with the title of the article and the date.
So this way when I have to reference a Triond article pursay, I go to that folder and only see all my triond articles there by article title and date.
Hope this helps. 
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@tiggerific (230)
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11 Jul 10
I do have seperate folders for the individual sites. A site I recently started writing for allows pictures so I save these together with the article in a folder, within the site folder.
I really don't know why it has taken me so long to start writing, I am really enjoying myself, I wish i'd have started sooner.
Thank you for your reply hardworkinggurl xx
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@mavericcherub4u (145)
• India
11 Jul 10
Hello
I save the pages which I find interesting on internet for the purpose of writing a new article and then take a print out of all of these. It's better if I have pages with all the information on one side and my word document which I'm preparing just in front of me. But, this is only in the case of articles which need a lot of research and time. These articles are mostly for upfront paying websites.
For residual income websites, I take 10 minutes in reading what is already there on the internet and compilation of knowledge gathered from all these websites hardly take another 15-20 minutes.
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@tiggerific (230)
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11 Jul 10
I save that many pages I forget what I wanted them for in the first place. I have never considered printing pages out, if I start to do that, at least I could scribble it's purpose on there and maybe highlight points of interest. Thank you for the idea xx
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