Writing Tips
Disclosures
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
- Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Blogging
Kevin O’Keefe, Resource Center Could Be a Nice Addition to Legal Blog, Real Lawyers, Sep. 24, 2020.
Kevin O’Keefe, Lawyers Can Learn From Beginnings of Blogging, Real Lawyers, Sep. 21, 2020.
Writing Apps
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Brett Terpstra, iOS Text Editor roundup.
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For a case against distraction-free writing apps, see A free distraction, by Dr. Drang, And now it’s all this (12/24/2013).
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1Writer – has an excellent (and customizable) share extension that allows you to highlight text from Safari automatically convert it to Markdown, and import it into 1Writer for later processing.
- iA Writer
- Matt D. Smith, Service Agreement [Using iA Writer], GitHub (showing how to use iA Writer’s front-end variables).
- Word
How to Express Empathy and Support
Kelly Konya, 4 Ways to Express Empathy and Support in Writing, Gammarly Blog, Oct. 7, 2020.
GitHub
See Writing on GitHub.
Nonfiction Book
Legal Writing
Forms should be “living” documents that your revise and improve over your career.
Note Taking
Writing often starts with collecting – research, notes, ideas, thoughts, quotes, stories, ideas, etc.
Hetty Roessingh, Note-taking by hand: A powerful tool to support memory, The Conversation, Aug. 31, 2020. <!–
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In Plain text note taking system using markdown for technical notes, Gaurav Singh captures the importance of building a note taking system:
As an engineer working in tech, one of the most important habits to develop over time is your knowledge base. With each passing month, your skills would improve and you would constantly learn new technologies or frameworks.
It’s important to commit the important ones to some permanent store which is easily searchable, and can act as a easy point of reference for you in the future.
Markdown
In Academic Markdown and Citations, Chris Krycho discusses how he uses Markdown, Pandoc, and BibTEX to automatically manage “ibid.”-type references.