Article writing
To do list for writing articles
Just imagine that you receive a letter from your editor: “Dear John, (editors are very busy people and often forget names of their journalists) You are the best journalist of our magazine and I want you to write an article about Ukraine .” Ukraine … Where is it? Anyway you can’t refuse your editor after getting such a direct mail so you start thinking of things you should do to write the best article describing a country about which you know next to nothing.
A well planned article is a half written article
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It takes you 5 minutes to write down tasks in VIP Organizer, subsuming each task under category ‘New York Times’ and subcategory ‘Article about Ukraine ’. Some of these tasks like ‘To search for information about Ukraine in Google’ are important, others like ‘To try Ukrainian food’ are not. You know how important is to put the first things first, so this software’s priority tool is at your service from its ‘lowest’ to its ‘highest’ point.
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To be or not to be in time
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To avoid wasting time, you should organize it efficiently, otherwise you risk failing your editor. Some tasks like ‘Getting my thoughts together’ may repeat from day after day. Some tasks can’t start before others are finished. (however ‘Applying to editor for a raise’ can go both before and after ‘Sending article to editor’) Once the due dates are set VIP Organizer will show you at any moment how much time is left. This works great together with the Complete(%) option which shows you how much work you have already done and how much is left. |
Some useful features for article writing
There is no chance you forget to write an article about Ukraine . You can set reminder for each task to pop up a message on the screen, wake you up by sound or send a task to you or your resource by email (you can send a task as a message to a mobile phone as well). Another useful feature is Hyperlink. It takes time to find an appropriate document among all the articles you have written. VIP Organizer values your time and opens files right from your ‘to do list’. So, a good article isn’t written in a day, but using list of tasks you have good chances to break this rule.
