Regarding EverNote and writing, I think that using it the way you describe - more of a capture of several free-form and potentially unrelated snipits of though - would work well. EverNote doesn’t have any advanced text or paragraph formatting and doesn’t have spell check. But, it is fantastic about helping you capture thoughts and then relate them. I actually use it to capture quotes and some brainstorming ideas as well.

If you want to play around with it, check out the Auto-Categories, which you can use to automatically assign categories to notes based on certain criteria. For example, you can assign all notes that contain the word “Allison’s brother” to the category called “cool people related to friends”.

Good luck with your novel!

You probably don’t remember me, but I’m one of Allison’s buddies from high school — we’ve met once or twice I think.

Now a days I’m working on writing a novel, and the idea of this note taking software really struck a chord for me. In your opinion, would this kind of thing be useful for that kind of creative free-form thought? I tend to write in fits and starts, jumping all around. If I could just write and worry about organizing it all coherently later, that would really be an advantage!

I’d love to hear your thoughts. And yay for the blog! Welcome to the addiction. ;c)

~Lacy