How to Make Writers' Wallpaper: Keep Your Notes Handy to Be More Productive

By Kendall Hanson

A quick and easy method for writers and students to turn their most important notes into monitor wallpaper so they can keep them handy while writing.

This guide focuses on basic techniques using commonly found software and requires only a simple understanding of those programs. The emphasis is on being able to make and change desktop wallpaper in just a few minutes for easy and practical help in keeping notes handy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kendall Hanson
• Release date: Apr 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781929516971

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Chapter One

Why make your own wallpaper?

Writers are zealous note takers and note users, and we bring an individuality to the process that often defies logic for most other people, but makes perfect sense to us.

Worse, we often find ourselves awash in such a sea of notes that we activate our inner Pareto Principle with hardly any thought. We keep handy what we need, and put the rest in a drawer. Unfortunately, we don't always empty our desk when the use of the note has passed.

But all of us have some baseline principles that work for us, and in my case, there's always some basic info that I want to be able to jog my noggin with. Something I don't want to have to dig through a pile of papers in a desk drawer to find. Something I want right in front of me, all the time, but not obnoxiously so. To fill that need, I started making my own computer wallpapers, and I discovered the bit of time it takes me to do that is more than worth the time I save as I go about my daily writing.

Best of all, it's simple to do. You can do as many as you want. You can make them as plain or as complex as you need. You can make them straightforward as I tend to do, or as decorative as they are useful. In fact, I've begun making a series of wallpapers for myself, each designed to guide me through each different phase of a specific

Reviews for How to Make Writers' Wallpaper

[Carlos · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Does what the title says. No frills. Very straightforward and practical. A breath of fresh air.