A215 (My first ever Blog!)

Now that I have the course material I thought it best to make a start on the work.  The course doesn't officially 'start' until the 1st October, but since the book is here I might as well get a move on with it!

I have read about clustering and figured that to save paper and hand cramp from using a pen, I would have a look for a tool on the pc for creating these clusters. (a cluster is very similar to a mind map) Since I use Linux Mint, (Ubuntu not Debian release) I easily found a couple of likely candidates using the package manager.  The one that stood out for me most was the quirky entitled VYM (view your mind) which I believe works on all platforms.

When it comes to free writing there are lots of helpful bits and bobs of advice out on the interweb, so I won't link any at this time.  However, I will say that I have made some good use of a web timer that since I type all my free writes does a great job of telling me to stop writing.  It's called Timer Tab and is brilliant as a countdown timer in my browser because it saves me needing my watch or phone at hand when I am free writing.  I must point out that I use Google chrome as a browser, and have not checked whether it works on all other browsers.. I shall leave that to anyone who fancies giving it a try!

I would like to thank all of the sites that I have linked and those that I haven't, but use regularly anyway. 

That is all for this blog.  I hope to add more in the near future, I just have the small matter of writing material first!