From: ArcticLlama Freelancing Blog
As a freelance writer, I need a way to create, organize, and keep
notes, sources, and even snippets of text or dialog, as well as
article ideas. Around my home office, I have literally a hundred or
more notebooks jammed with scribbles, ideas, magazine clippings,
and newspaper articles. While opening up one of those notebooks
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