The birth of a good article often requires a large number of materials and supporting materials, and providing these materials and supporting materials to our readers can make the transmission of information more efficient, but how to manage the massive materials and materials? In this article, I’ll introduce you to some tools for managing your material.
We have divided the material into the following aspects and introduced them to you one by one
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Link stories: Link stories are the ones we use most when writing articles, such as references, official documents, a tutorial someone wrote, a StackOverflow response, etc.
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Picture materials: Picture materials are possible illustrations, screenshots, and good pictures seen on a website when we write articles.
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Code-type material: As a programmer, when writing articles and tutorials, it is inevitable to use code to explain, at this time we usually save interesting code may become our writing material.
Linked material
Link material is the most material we use, we need to link a variety of websites, and every time from the search engine to find, not in the process of each browsing, will collect information to the material management tool, when used, directly in the material management tool for query.
Collect interesting cloud bookmarks
Bookmark is an online bookmark service similar to delicious bookmark, which can store your bookmarks directly in the cloud and store them across devices and browsers.
When using, we just need to install its browser plug-in, and put its plug-in button in the toolbar, it is very convenient to bookmark a page to the collection. You can also set categories for your favorites as you add them, giving you a more precise view of your favorites in subsequent searches.
Compared to the system with bookmarks, a great advantage of collecting cloud bookmarks is that it can be very convenient to search, quickly find the content you need from your bookmarks.
Another advantage is that you can store all your bookmarks in one place, making your collection less fragmented and cheaper to search for. You only need to search in one place.
Cost: basic functions are free, complete export is paid.
Platform: Full platform
Graphic material
Picture material is also the most we use to write articles, there are two main kinds of picture material, one is posters, clip art, we often need to collect, sort out, classify in advance; The other type is screenshots, ready to use.
petals
Petal net is an online sharing community, it provides a very good collection function, you can collect a variety of pictures on different pages.
All you need to do is install its collection tool (just a browser plug-in) and collect images from different pages into your own petalnet account.
Right-click on the page you want to capture and select Capture image or video to activate the capture mode of the plug-in, which automatically identifies all images on the page and lets you choose which images you want to capture.
You just need to choose your own images, and batch collection is ok.
Petal net can complete the collection of pictures in our normal browsing process. For local screenshot collection, the current support is not perfect, you need to save the picture to the local, and then upload to petals for collection.
Cost: Free
Platform: Web browser only
Eagle
Eagle is a popular photo material management tool in the past two years. I also use it for photo material management.
On the basic functions, and a petal network acquisition function, also install the browser plugin, via a browser plug-in to accomplish image acquisition, the difference is that the Eagle can provide more design level of ability, but these has little to do with us these writers, and compared with the petals, Eagle can provide screenshots of support, But you also have to pay a higher price.
Cost: 199/2 equipment
Platform: Windows or macOS
Code material
As a technical person, when you write articles, you tend to be technical, and you will inevitably encounter situations where you have to write code. If the code doesn’t accumulate, it will be much more expensive to find when you really want to use it. There are some code management tools that can help you collect code that you come across that is worth talking about separately.
Lepton
Lepton is a software developed by a developer for code management. Based on Github GIST, it can store all codes in GIST and search for specific codes when used.
The software is free and open source. It also supports Windows, macOS and Linux, and you can download the version for your own operating system.
Open the software and click New on the interface to enter the New interface
Holding down Shift + Space brings up the search box to search your Gist for code you’ve saved in the past, which is pretty handy.
Cost: Free
Platform: Windows, macOS, Linux
SnippetsLab
The functionality of Snippets Lab is not that different from that of Lepton. It’s also a code management tool, but SnippetLab doesn’t use Gist, it’s local storage. For scenarios where code doesn’t fit in the cloud, Snippets are obviously a better fit.
In addition, SnippetLab is written in OC, which is much more robust than Lepton written in Electron. Local storage also provides more items that can be customized. Of course, local storage also needs to consider data security, so SnippetLab provides the backup of iCloud and export into the Gists to help you get better use of SnippetLab.
Cost: 68
Platform: macOS
conclusion
With these tools, our material will be more organized, and when we actually start to write, we won’t panic because we can’t find the material.
A link to the
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Charge interest: shouqu. Me /
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Petals: huaban.com/
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Eagle, Eagle. Cool
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Lepton ：hackjutsu.com/Lepton/
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SnippetsLab:www.renfei.org/snippets-la…