Whether you’re a professional content writer, blogger or marketing manager, you know how daunting writing can be. Especially if you do it everyday: you may feel overwhelmed, unable to concentrate, lose creativity or simply lack ideas.
Writer’s block is a disaster for every content creator! It can lead to creating ineffective, grammatically incorrect copies that don’t engage your prospects, customers or followers.
Luckily, there are plenty of tools that can simplify and speed up the writing process, eliminate distraction and help with idea creation. We’ve collected them for you. Let’s get started!
Organize your ideas
Milanote
Milanote allows you to organize projects, research and ideas via visual boards. So, instead of a typical and boring notebook, you can take notes on a canvas. It’s particularly beneficial for creative people because brainstorming is a non-linear process and doesn’t come in a text format only,
In Milanote you can write notes, upload images and files, add links, clip any web page and collaborate with your teammates in real time. Milanote’s minimalistic and drag-and-drop interface makes the tool intuitive and easy-to-use.
Ideaflip
If you have a nostalgic feeling about expressing your ideas on sticky notes, there you have it! Ideaflip’s virtual sticky notes feel like real ones!
Ideaflip is a simple web app where you can brainstorm new article or blog post ideas solely or share, discuss references and work together with colleagues and content creators in real time.
Scrivener
Designed for writers, Scrivener is dedicated to making the writing process less daunting and more efficient. With this tool, you can take notes, write, edit, add inspiration ideas, collect research and organize all your papers in one place.
Scrivener allows you to import various files: images, PDFs, videos, music files, and web pages. What’s more, if you have a series of blog posts or articles, you can create a detailed plan of your piece with the in-built outliner.
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Stay focused and productive
Marinara Timer
The Pomodoro technique is a time management method for those who want to be more productive. Usually you set a timer and work for 25 minutes with short (a five-minute) break and long (a 15-minute) break. During the 25-minute interval you don’t do anything except work.
With Marinara Timer, you can easily start using the technique in both traditional and customizable ways. Everyone has various needs, so Marinara Timer’s developers took that into consideration and created a Pomodoro-style timer you can tailor to fit your productivity needs. You can set time segments that fit your workflow, reduce distractions and share your productivity timer with teammates to complete tasks more efficiently.
OmmWriter
Creators of the app took a thorough approach while developing it for writers, content creators, students and everyone, who is involved in the writing process one way or another.
With OmmWriter, you can write peacefully, fully immersed in the process with higher concentration. How? OmmWriter is designed to create a natural experience to eliminate distractions.
It stimulates your concentration using natural peaceful backgrounds, soothing audio tracks and customizable keyboard noises when you type.
Freedom
Apps and websites like social media, messengers, shopping and others are specifically designed to keep us hooked. Everytime we get distracted by any of them, our brains get the so-called reward as tiny hits of dopamine. Unfortunately, the cost for that is too high: we lose our focus, get tired easier and end up being less satisfied with our lives.
The Freedom app provides distraction-free periods. Whether you use Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, or Chrome, Freedom sync blocks across all of your devices.
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Make your writing eloquent and error-free
Linguix
Linguix is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you get rid of writing errors. How valuable would it be to produce content that is smooth to read and totally free from mistakes and typos?
With the Linguix browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox, you can fix your mistakes wherever you write on the web.
Linguix also offers a built-in feature with definitions and synonyms. Besides, you can find templates and build upon expertly-crafted content for emails, social media posts and so on. You can also save shortcuts with useful text that needs to be inserted regularly.
Power Thesaurus
To make your writing sophisticated, you can also use a thesaurus to find better alternatives for your words.
Power Thesaurus is community-driven online thesaurus. It’s built by its users that help to provide various word choices. Just type a word, click on a search button and find multiple synonyms for your word.
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Create more engaging and authentic content
Headline Analyzer 
70% of Americans only read headlines of articles before sharing them. It’s hard to overestimate the role headlines play in today’s content. Luckily, tools like Headline Analyzer can help you make them more engaging and attract readers’ attention.
The tool assesses your headline in multiple ways and provides a scoring rate of how powerful your headline is. The score shows if your headline is SEO-optimized, readable, emotional and so on.
Cliché Finder
Overused phrases or cliches make your content boring and hard to read. Cliche Finder’s goal is to find these phrases so you can eliminate them from your writing. This minimalistic, yet powerful tool checks your copy and highlights cliches so you can get rid of them right away.
DupliChecker
Readers instantly notice copied content. Google can even penalize it. Therefore, you, as a content creator, have to make sure that your texts are free from plagiarism.
You can easily do it with the help of software. DupliChecker is a web-based tool that can check any text that you paste in. DupliChecker supports many file types.
After the result is displayed in a percentage format, DupliChecker helps you make it unique by using the inbuilt AI tool.
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Generate content ideas
Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator
Run out of content ideas for your blog? HubSpot’s Blog Topic Generator is exactly what you need when it becomes challenging to come up with fresh topics ideas. Just enter up to five nouns and click “Give me blog ideas”. The tool will generate five topics for your next post.
If you’re not satisfied with suggestions, you can click “Try again” and the generator will give you five more topic ideas.
The HOTH Headline Generator
As mentioned above, engagement on your blog post largely depends on a headline. So, the more options you have, the better. The HOTH Headline Generator can come in handy. The tool helps you find relevant headlines for your blog posts without spending hours generating them yourself.
Simply enter a content idea and fill in the blanks:
- What is the audience’s desired outcome?
- What common problems does your audience experience?
- What is the name of the industry?
- What is the name of the target audience?
After answering these questions, the HOTH will generate perfect headlines that will increase the SEO ranking and catch readers’ attention.
Quora
Quora is a social question-and-answer website, where people gain and share knowledge. Every day users on Quora are asking lots of questions, so you can use this information to your advantage.
Find the field you’re writing about and look through questions your target audience often asks. This way you can generate multiple ideas for your future blog posts.
BuzzSumo
Looking into various websites to understand what your potential readers are concerned about can be time-consuming. BuzzSumo will do it for you. It’s a powerful online tool that allows you to find out what content is popular among users on any website.
All you need is just type a keyword in the BuzzSumo search box and hit enter. Then the tool will show you the most popular content for this keyword along with social engagement.
Besides, BuzzSumo provides Evergreen Score, which represents if content is still relevant.
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Create SEO-friendly content
LowFruits
LowFruits is a tool that helps you find keywords that have a high chance of ranking your site on Google. It analyzes SERPs and provides the most relevant keywords straight from Google.
LowFruits also offers a “wildcards” feature that finds specific combinations of keywords that your competitors wouldn’t be able to find using other keyword tools.
Keywords Everywhere
The Keywords Everywhere browser add-on is a simple, yet very useful plugin for Google and Firefox that shows monthly search volume, CPC and competition data of keywords on various websites.
By using the extension you no longer need to switch between your keyword tool and Google Keyword Planner.
Surfer’s Content Editor
Surfer’s Content Editor is one of the most efficient writing tools for creating SEO-friendly content. Online editor analyzes your content’s readability, keyword density and headlines as you type.
What’s more, the tool can inspect hundreds of data points and compare your content against organic competitors. Thus, you’ll be able to create posts that outrank the competitors’ websites and attract organic traffic.
Moreover, you don’t need to switch windows or copy-paste your text to use the editor. Instead, you can connect the document to the tool, type your target keyword and watch the progress. You can integrate the tool with Google Docs and WordPress.
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That’s it! Did we miss something? Can you recommend other high-quality tools you use on a daily basis? Leave a comment below and let us know!