80 services that will make life easier for the editor

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-31 15:16

These tools will help you plan your time, find errors, and prepare your text for publication.

Scheduling time and tasks

1. "" Is a free cross-platform calendar with a minimalistic design. Allows you to schedule appointments, create recurring events, set reminders.

2. - nice and functional calendar for macOS and iOS. A convenient but paid alternative to the standard Apple Calendar.

3. - task planner and note-booker. Allows you to create tasks, rank them by importance, add reminders, mark progress statuses, attach files, share planned with colleagues.

4. - a time tracker that helps you keep track of how much time is spent on tasks. A detailed report is provided for each task, which can be downloaded and printed.

5. - a scheduler for the efficient distribution of personal and professional tasks. Allows you to create and share to-do lists, set due dates, add reminders and tags, group lists into folders by category. Available on all devices.

6. is a free service for creating and managing task lists. It works on the principle of kanban boards, it is convenient for teamwork. You can set deadlines, monitor the progress of work, leave comments, sort tasks into groups.

7. - another service for working on projects. Suitable for small teams. Allows you to create checklists and tasks, share documents and save them, discuss tasks with colleagues.

8. - an organizer program for planning cases.

9. - a 3-in-1 tool: a time tracker, a task manager and a simple timer based on the Pomodoro technique.

Create notes and checklists, online editors

1. is a popular service for creating and storing notes. Recordings can be sorted, tagged, edited and exported, and you can add links, lists, tables, attachments, and audio recordings to them.

2. is an application from Microsoft for taking notes. They can be handwritten, drawn, printed. Available offline, integrates with the Office suite.

3. - the service allows you to save any important information from the Internet and share it, as well as keep to-do lists. Available offline.

4. - a service for working with information, doing business and projects. It is convenient to work with text in it: add lists, blocks, videos, images, program code. Recognizes Markdown markup.

5. is a free service from Google. Allows you to create notes and checklists, import them into Google Docs, share them, add pictures, text and videos.

6. "" Is a text editor with automatic saving. Allows you to type text, format it, collaborate on it with other users, and view the history of document changes.

7. - a minimalistic editor in which nothing distracts from working with text. The toolbar appears only when necessary, the text is checked in Glavred and Yandex. Spellers, export to HTML and PDF is supported.

8. - a convenient editor for dynamic joint work with documents and tables. There is a chat for the team under each edited document.

9. - editor for text, tables and presentations. Supports export and import in most well-known formats. Suitable for collaboration with documents.

10. - editor with the minimum required set of formatting. Ideal for those who are tired of bulky toolbars.

11. - browser-based document editor with commenting capability.

12. - a tool that allows you to easily type a post online.

Find errors and stop words

1. "" Is a paid service for checking spelling, grammar and punctuation.

2. "" - a service for checking spelling in Russian and English.

3. - a tool for checking spelling in more than thirty languages. Looks for spelling and punctuation errors, incorrect dates and letter cases.

4. "" - checks spelling in Russian, Ukrainian and English text.

5. "" - a service for checking text for tautology. Searches for repetitions and closely spaced words with the same phonetic and morphological structure.

6. - checking the text in an informational style, allows you to make the wording more precise and concise.

7. "" - a service for finding stop words, helps to remove verbal rubbish and hackneyed stamps from the text. Suitable for commercial texts, advertisements, news, instructions.

8. "" - a tool for checking text for compliance with the information style. Highlights stop words and gives recommendations for improving the text.

9. "" Is a professional tool for assessing the quality of the text. Allows you to determine its water content and nausea, counts the number of characters and words, optimizes articles for SEO.

Checking uniqueness and readability

1. - a tool that allows you to determine the readability of the text. He counts the number of characters and complex words, and then roughly estimates which audience the text will be understandable.

2. - analysis of the readability of the text according to Zipf's law. Helps to find out how natural and interesting the text will look for a person, and also suggests how to improve it so that everything is in order with keywords for search engines.

3. - checking the text for anti-plagiarism, counting the number of words and symbols in the text, highlighting keywords, analyzing the water content and spaminess of the text, checking spelling.

4. - another service for evaluating the uniqueness of the text. Checks the text for matches with what has already been published on the Internet.

5. - a site where you can compare two texts with each other.

Preparing text for publication

1. "" - automatically clears text from formatting, unnecessary tags and attributes.

2. "" - helps the text to look neat inside HTML-code or layout. Places correct quotes and non-breaking spaces, replaces hyphens with dashes, removes incorrect hyphens.

3. "" - counting the number of characters and symbols in the text, removing double spaces.

4. "" - free typographic layout for comfortable typing. Russian and English versions are available.

5. "" - changes uppercase letters to lowercase and vice versa, so as not to retype the text again.

6. "" - preparation of a list of references in accordance with GOST.

Working with images

1. - online image editor. Allows you to create the simplest illustrations, as well as crop and process photographs.

2. is a powerful graphical editor for real-time collaboration.

3. - a service for creating pictures with captions.

4. BeFunky, Fotor - two image processing tools. With their help, you can design collages, screenshots, photos and pictures for social networks.

5. Photopea, Pixlr are two online Photoshop alternatives.

6. - adding watermarks, cropping, creating and editing images and collages, as well as many different filters, frames and effects.

7. Photo stocks - more than 30 photo stocks with high quality images.

8. is an aggregator that allows you to search for free images on 30 different photo stocks.

9. Google Fonts is a library of free fonts.

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11. "" Is a tool for creating emoji covers in just a couple of clicks.

Screen recording, voice recording, screenshots

1., - tools for quickly creating and editing screenshots. You can take a screenshot of the entire screen or a selected area.

2. Screen Recorder - 5 great free apps to record video from your computer, tablet or phone screen.

3. "" Is an online voice recorder that works in a browser. Saves finished audio recordings in MP3 format.

4 …, - several voice recorder applications for voice recording. Indispensable for interviews.

5., - programs for recording interviews that take place via Skype.

Dictionaries and translators

1.,, - free online dictionaries of Russian synonyms.

2. - an online dictionary of antonyms for frequently used words and phrases of the Russian language.

3. - a huge collection of online dictionaries for every taste in various fields of knowledge.

4. "" - a service for checking the collocation of words. You can enter any phrase, and the algorithm will look for examples of its use in books and articles.

5. "Gramota.ru" is a reference and information portal for the Russian language, dictionaries and interactive exercises for testing literacy, a reference bureau where you can ask questions about the correct spelling of words and punctuation.

6. The Culture of Written Speech is another portal where you can get acquainted with the norms and rules of the modern Russian literary language.

7. "Rules of the Russian Language", Best-Language - short spelling and punctuation rules of the Russian language, accompanied by examples.

8. "Udrenie.info" is a convenient interactive service where you can read about pronunciation norms and practice stressing in a game format.

9. Google Translate - instant translation of words, phrases, sentences, web pages. There are about 100 languages available. You can listen to how a word or phrase will sound.

10. Translate.ru is another free online translator. Pronunciation rules, transcriptions, reading rules and translation examples are available.

11. - a bilingual translator from Russian into English and vice versa, an editor who checks the spelling of written texts, as well as exercises for memorizing words and literature with parallel translation.

12. "" - a dictionary of abbreviations, acronyms, abbreviations and compound words of the Russian language.

13. "" Is a service for finding associations that people have when they see a certain word. Combined with explanatory and visual dictionaries.

Other useful things

1., - services for finding experts and collecting opinions. Useful when you need a comment from a specialist to supplement the material.

2. "" - statistics of queries in Yandex by keywords and phrases. It is convenient to track popular queries and select keywords for SEO optimization.

3. "" Is a free service for creating questionnaires, forms and surveys.

4. Link shorteners - 10 convenient alternatives to replace the closed Goo.gl.

5., - online services for creating mind maps. With their help, it is easy to structure information, generate new ideas or memorize materials.

6. - website builder, landing pages and online stores. No programming skills required.

7. "" - a service of deferred publications for social networks with detailed and understandable weekly reports.

8. - a beautiful and convenient tool for creating newsletters. The service is free if there are no more than 2,000 subscribers in the database and no more than 12,000 letters are sent per month.

9. Online-Convert, "" - online converters of documents, audio, video and images.

10., - platforms for creating interactive formats: tests, polls, quizzes, lists.