A significant portion of the development effort for the next version (8.1) of YourOtherMind, the Writer’s Organizer, has been devoted to improving stability.
Unfortunately during a code review of the Picture Panels available on StickIt pages, we decided to reimplement the linking system — which was prone to failure. Unfortunately legacy links will not be maintained.
This [...]

Richard Horton does a yearly summary for many magazines, highlighting the stories he most enjoyed. I have always found his summaries quite interesting and was very pleased to see ”A Ragman’s Vow” (a story of mine that was published in On Spec, Summer 2008) mentioned in his “also liked” category. Pretty stoked about being mentioned in [...]

Another new feature in version 8.1 of YourOtherMind, the Writer’s Organizer is incentives.
I know many people are probably going to wonder: “What is the point of those?”
Basically I added them for the same reasons games and game consoles have added achievements and other measures to track user participation in the game. These include:
1. Users use [...]

Forums have been added to the website.
For far only one group, for discussing YourOtherMind, the Writer’s Organizer. If you have any other suggestions for groups, please send them in.
To post you will need to create a user account. Let me know if you have any difficulties with that.

YourOtherMind (8.1) — the writer’s organizer —  is now ready for beta testing.
To view the beta testing instructions (and to see the list of new features) please check out the YourOtherMind 8.1 page.
To download please go to the Download page.
And here is a screenshot of the new market picker (for submission tracking):

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Just stumbled across Scrivener, a writing program for the Mac OS.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
A very nice program! More polished than YourOtherMind but lacking some features that we have, though its emphasis appears to be more on producing written work within Scrivener   (whereas YourOtherMind is more about organizing works and ideas, though the production element is going to be expanded [...]

I promised myself I wouldn’t pollute this blog with boring details about my kids, but well, I’m kinda breaking that promise. They just do too many damn cute things. I promise (and this one I won’t break) that I will use the “My Life” category to sort them. So if you want to just ignore [...]

Pleased to see my name included among several well known writers who have had their stories added to the AnthologyBuilder site.
“We’ve got new fiction by Eric James Stone, Trina Jacobs, Scott Wilson, Brent Knowles, R. S. Pyne, Michael Merriam, Norman Riger, Billy Wong, M.K. Hobson, Irene Radford, Edward McKeown, Jake F. Ilac, Ruth Nestvold, Jay [...]

 
Implemented 8.2.

Spellchecking (multiple language support)
Find-Search system vastly improved, including support for a user modified “badly used phrase” system (you can search for phrases you commonly use incorrectly or too much).
Screen Capture Tool incorporated onto StickIt pages – easily capture anything you see and add it instantly to a StickIt page
Key Responsiveness – previously formatting like [...]

With YourOtherMind versions 8.1 and beyond updating is now automatic but the user must enable it by selecting an option within YourOtherMind as described on the how do automatic updates work page.
Sometimes (hopefully never!) though YourOtherMind may not load and you will want to manually force an autoupdate. To do this you would do the [...]