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Keep track of all your bookmarks and access them from any device. Share with groups, and join groups or search Diigo to get the best of other people's resources

Online version of presentation on information flows, managing resources and note-keeping.

Robert Lee Brewer provides prompts weekly prompts, a poem-a-day challenge in April and November, and exercises in all forms of poetry plus coaching on expanding your presence on the web as a poet.

We skipped over this, but for anyone who needs to manage data about lots of resources in different formats (eg books, links, PDFs, journal articles), Zotero is a very powerful free tool which grabs bibliographic data or metadata from anywhere and manages it for you. Can output bibliographies in all the usual styles. An alternative to EndNote or RefWorks.

/drools/ That's really cool - thanks!

Fully searchable note taking tool, perfect for keeping track of scribble , ideas, projects and resources

Mark any web page to read later, eg on your phone or iPad (or computer). Pocket works offline, so you can keep reading in a train tunnel or without wifi.

Find apps to add to Chrome to integrate your other tools (eg Evernote and Diigo). Then when you find a web page you like - anywhere - one click of a button will save it to your Evernote or Diigo account.

I've belonged to this for more than ten years. It is a huge community of people who write, at all levels of experience. Mostly Americans, but many from all around the English-speaking world. There is a free course you can do to see if you like it, before paying to join. If you join, there are many interest groups, self-moderated. I belong to one focusing on literary short story writing, invitation only, full at the moment and not taking members. There are groups writing every kind of genre you can think of. The standard varies hugely from group to group, and from course to course.

Site listing huge number of writing opportunities. Used to be free but recently became necessary to pay to join. Weighted towards the US, but does list Australian opportunities, such as anthologies. Basically world wide publishing opportunities.

Free (or very cheap if you want upgrades or cloud version) software for writers, including formatted templates for scripts of all kinds and integrated shooting calendars, production resources, etc

Great for assembling scrap books of images - settings, moods, characters, inspirations, details, books, authors, booklists, etc. Excellent search engine of collective obsessions. Also addictive.

One of my friends on FB was complaining about the addictive aspect only this weekend. I'm almost afraid to try it!

Feedly alternative for Mac users

Summary of session on plotting, drafting and timeline tools

Handy post on a few places to get online critiques, info and support

Huge range of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, journals, databases (eg AustLit). They are free to access (but you have to join the library - also free - to do so.)

Rich repository of journal articles and published papers on almost anything. If you are a member of a university library or State Library and put that in your Scholar profile, it will tell you when you have direct access to an article in a subscription-based database.

It's is always worth investigating the authors of a paper before you use it from Scholar, I reckon. Universities overseas, particularly in the US, have different funding arrangements and sometimes the papers here (especially health-related ones) are less than independent.

Fair call. True also of many materials online - factual or opinion-based ... or in the hard to tell the difference category. One good measure of credibility (or arguments against the findings) is to look at how many other people have cited the material and what they've done with it, which you can do via Scholar.

One for the nonfiction writers especially but everyone will benefit, I think. Snopes debunks urban legends, lies and ridiculous social media campaigns by a team of fact-checkers. It is very fast and pretty reliable.

'"I have read and agree to the Terms" is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that.' Community does the hard work of reading all the terms and conditions small print, then rates the service and points out key issues for each.

On productivity, storing documents safely, and how to write without being disturbed.