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Bill Seitz Writing Tool History
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Some notes on various tools I've used for various kinds of writing over the years...

1984-88: [PCs] at work ([Word Star], for , which I loved). Mac on the side (), plus little note-munging utilities which I've forgotten.

1989: use for some class notes during program. Too bad much of that was lost due to hard disk crash with no backup!

Outliners: mainly for task/project mgmt, but a little for writing.

1992-1995: for personal diary (wow, just opened that old stack with with no problem at all!)

tools to (prioritize, shake out ideas, etc.). , [MindMan], later [E Mind Maps].

Jul'97: start saving the emails I send to a bunch of people, pointing out links, with a bit of commentary...

Apr'98: start manual ([Visual Page]) (buried in public server).

Sep'99: get interested in processes. Discover the core site, which was a hotbed of and [Design Patterns]. Get intrigued by the site's engine. Download a Python-based wiki clone onto my laptop and use it to start writing big-picture notes about tech issues (e.g. () relevant at work (). One of my first pages notes the potential for wiki as a tool!

Nov'99: considering leaving , come up with idea for new veture (). Start writing ideas in .

Dec23'99: start my at http://webseitz.editthispage.com/1999/12/23

Jan'00: decide to leave to start . acts like a in outline form, where there's a big [Table Of Contents] page that links to single-topic pages.

Fall'00: once we have our own servers in place at , I launch a server to use as our .

Oct'01: having earlier started renting space and used it just for static document posting, I finally launch/tweak .

Jan30'02: start noting in my weblog.

Feb7'02: stop blogging in , doing it all in my .

Hi Bill! You might be interested in our lab's working group [Thinking Powerfully] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingpowerfully/ to jumpstart a network of software tools for augmenting thinking including an import/export standard http://www.ms.lt/mindset.html We award free membership to makers of open source tools. Is your tool open source? , ms@ms.lt

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