This weekend I took Mini-Me to see Stomp. What an awesome production. She loved it!
There was one performer in particular who nearly brought me to tears. (I’m such a wuss… blame it on motherhood, and watching Beaches one too many times.)
When she did her routine, she did it with an amazing degree of passion. She was flinging her braids around, and biting her lip, and banging on that trash can with such a fury. Whew! I mean I REALLY felt her love for what she was doing.
Her performance made me want to be an even better writer. To put as much va-va-va-voom into my work as she did in that trash can banging performance. What a nice extra for my $55 ticket.
Anyway, that has nothing to do with today’s blog topic.
Just a motivational commercial to say stop being mediocre, and start doing amazing things that make people remember you.
Today’s blog is really about Writely.
Writely is a FREE word processing app that resides online. It’s awesome for a couple of reasons…
- Upload/download/save your documents in popular file formats like Word, RTF, PDF, and more.
- Data backup every 10 seconds. (No more lost material when your computer decides to have a Mariah Carey-like nervous breakdown.)
- Invite others to collaborate on the document with you - in real-time - if you want. No more e-mailing back and forth. And you can revert back to an original copy of the document, if you don’t like the changes.
- Publish your document as a web page, to Blogger, etc.
- Save as many files as you want.
Writely is a Google tool, and they’ve got the infamous ‘beta’ marking on the site.
I’m loving it because I travel a lot, and it’s an easy way to keep track of my 500 documents, without having to worry about that USB memory thingy. (Where is that thing, now that I’m thinking about it!)
I can even type on my Palm Pilot, without having to synchronize my files.
I’m not crazy about it because you gotta be online to use it. And as a traveler, that can sometimes be an issue.
Definiteley a great tool to have though. At the very least, an easy way to back up your important works.
Alexis Dawes
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:11 am
This is a cool tool. I played with it a bit. But I can’t upload some of my word documents right now. Usually not a problem but most of my newer ones have a lot of formatting which still doesn’t come through as expected.
But I will be using this for drafts for sure.