/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5216622]

So how do you organize your notes, /lit/? When they're for a single story you can just shit on the nearest piece of paper and you're alright, but I bet you keep general notes as well.

I have a box full of random notes, a desktop and a laptop with more of the same, and finally a nice leather journal just for sketches and interesting words and names.

I intend to turn all my junk into a neatly organized hierarchy on a thumb drive, but I haven't figured out the structure yet. Some ideas are simple premises, others are almost complete short stories, and most are somewhere in between. And then there's orphan scenes, characters, sci-fi inventions, fragments of dialogue, pictures and sound clips.

Maybe mindmaps are the way to go.

[Anonymous No.5216627]

well first I fuck your mother then I smoke some crack

[Anonymous No.5216631]

>>5216622
Pocket sized moleskin for ideas that may pop into my head at any given moment. Writer Pro for general notes.

I never really found note keeping all that difficult.

[rêve No.5216636]

my notes go into notebooks that i toss once they're filled up. it allows for me to forget i thought a thought once and for that thought to evolve in different ways.

[Anonymous No.5216639]

Note taking is just another form of hoarding.
Admit it OP, your notes are never going to benefit you or anyone else.

[Anonymous No.5216668]

>>5216627
This.

[Anonymous No.5216712]

>>5216636
With my memory they'd be taken out back and shot rather than evolved.

>>5216639
They do come in handy. I always try to cram in my favorite ideas and put a hook of some sort on every page.

>>5216631
>Writer Pro
Still trying to figure out the concept.

Had Scrivener until the trial ran out but it wasn't doing me much better than simple text files in a folder.