This document should be readable by OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and MS Word.
The writing log is a document that is external to the manuscript. It is used to store the plans and progress made on a one manuscript. It is tool for enhancing your focus and sustaining forward momentum on the writing project. It is also tool that ease re-engagement in an interrupted writing project. It is like a master thinking document or second brain for a writing project.
Version 0.3 of the writing log is divided into four sections:
- project intiation
- daily entries
- future additions and tangents
- Guidelines, checklists, protocols, and helpful tips
The subsections of these four sections are shown below.
- Rationale
- Audience
- Target journals
- Related projects
- Potential Introduction
- Potential Results
- Potential Discussion points
- Prior discussion points
- Potential titles
- Potential keywords
- Potential abstract
- Abbreviations
- Potential collaborators
- Potential competitors
- Potential reviewers
- Draft cover letter
- Daily protocol
- Daily Log
- Update writing progress notebook
- Update personal knowledge base
- Timeline or Benchmarks
- Next action
- To be done
- Word Count
- Ideas to consider adding to the manuscript
- Introduction
- Results
- Discussion
- To be done someday
- Spin off writing projects
- Tips for using Overleaf
- Protocol for running Grammarly in Overleaf
- Guidelines for debugging the annotated bibliography
- Graphical Abstract
- Guidelines for benchmarks
- Guidelines for using Writing Progress Notebook
- Guidelines for using a personal knowledge base
- Writing Log template in LaTeX. The favored format. LaTeX beginners can use this document easily on Overleaf without any configuration.
- Writing log template in Org-mode Has all of the features of the LaTeX variant. Favored by many Emacs users. Org-mode is a powerful analog of markdown that can interpret LaTeX code blocks. It is vastly more capable than markdown. It even supports literate programming.
- Writing log template in reStructuredText reStructuredText is used by programmers for documentation.
- Writing log template in Markdown Markdown variant. Read and rendered to PDF by most good text editors.
- Writing log template in DOCX for MS Word MS Word variant. Probably the least suitable format for this task.
- Voice computing-related repos
- LaTeX manuscript template
- Org-mode manuscript template
- Workbook for 2022 for tracking time spent and words written by project
- Slideshow template in LaTeX
- Annotated bibliography Template in LaTeX
- Track writing progress in 2024 and 2025
- Diary for 2024 in LaTeX
- latex-emacs profile
- default Emacs profile
- snippets for latex-mode in Emacs
- Quizzes about Emacs to improve recall of keybindings
- Slides from talk about GhostText, Data Science Workshop, July 2022
- Video link to talk about GhostText, Data Science Workshop, July 2022
- Slideshow about using LaTeX in Emacs, Berlin Emacs Meetup, 31 August 2022
- The writer's crede
- NIH: R01 CA242845
- NIH: R01 AI088011
- NIH: P30 CA225520 (PI: R. Mannel)
- NIH: P20 GM103640 and P30 GM145423 (PI: A. West)
| Version | Changes | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Version 0.3 | Added funding and update table. | 2024 August 13 |