Oct 01 2007
Tools for Productivity - Zoundry Desktop Blogging
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After many weeks of not making much headway in making regular posts I am experimenting with Zoundry - a desktop blogging tool. I found that it was difficult to get onto WordPress as it requires a fast connection. Also the post editing interface is slow, clumsy and small! I did a little research and found a very helpful post from Center Networks (http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpress-desktop-blogging) that reviews several tools for desktop blogging. Based on that post I downloaded and installed Zoundry (http://www.zoundry.com/) and am using it to write this post. It is definitely a lot easier and faster than trying to use the small edit box in WordPress. An added benefit is that it has downloaded all my existing posts so that I have a copy on my hard drive which I can back up just in case!
The user interface is quite easy to use to get started with basic posting. I have created several unpublished posts that contain the kernels of the posts I’ve been planning for a while but never had the time or energy to write using the available WordPress tools. I can easily save my edits and quickly move between them. I was also pretty easy to clean up messy text with multiple fonts resulting from from cutting and pasting. I have always had trouble cleaning up my posts in the WordPress editor. Although, going back to clean up some older messy posts was not so easy.
One problem I’ve found so far is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to manage my other (personal) WordPress blog. The software seems to support managing multiple blogs, but I couldn’t get it to connect to my other blog. A little research shows that the issue may be with WordPress and not with Zoundry, though. I will keep researching, but if anyone has some information or instructions, please let me know.
I will play with Zoundry for a little while and write a followup post, but after about a half and hour I really like it. Now maybe my blogging productivity will improve!
