The Roots and Wings retreat had some wonderful information, this year. In Steffani Raff’s presentation of Using technology to organize and track your stories, I learned about some very useful software’s that could be very helpful in my efforts to be organized myself as a writer and as a storyteller. We were able to watch the software’s being used and shown how it can be used to organize our material.

I was trying to feverishly take notes, but was not able to catch everything; but, here are some of the highlights that I was able to document. I think these softwares or worthy of investigation. I presume you can find them by doing a Google search.

–        Personal story vault: some people will use the software to start their blog. Some bloggers will start tagging their content right from the beginning for easy access later.

–        Evernote: is software that helps people keeps notes for themselves or it can be shared.

–        Evernote is stored on the cloud. The cloud is a series of servers that are used for public consumption. Access to different data is restricted by password.

–        BlogSpot: is an application that you can use to create your own blog.

–        Some people will file their stories by theme and possible content.

–        Use labels of your folders that work for you as a consumer.

–        In BlogSpot you are storytelling.

–        Documented things that you do help you keep track of what you’ve done at different locations so that you don’t repeat yourself.

–        Some good topics to tag a story might include the name of the story, subject to the story, where it’s been performed, and the length of time it takes to tell it.

–        You can download Evernote to your PC or two in notebook. You might even be a little share it between devices.

–        Side note: The trick to Pinterest is not to follow a person, but to follow a particular topic that interest you that is listed under a person Pinterest page.

There was a lot more information that’s what’s been presented here. If you ever have a chance to attend this retreat in the future, I would recommend it. At least you have a little bit of an idea of some of the information that was learned during the weekend.