The
Author
Stack
A tech stack might seem like an ill-fit concept for authors, but we know the creative process can become a beast of its own. Ideas get lost, tasks get left behind, time passes by in the blink of an eye, and writers block finds can come at the worst of times. More over, communities that surround authors aren't much different to a user base. They can offer incomparable feedback and ideas, and are an author's best marketing tool.
We've curated a list of technology tools that an author can utilise to organize and manage their work, scale their creative process and productivity, market themselves and their ideas, and connect to audiences and opportunities never before possible. Being an author is a business of its own, and technology offers a huge advantage if tailored and utilized to suit your goals and endeavours.
Milanote
✅ Write notes & to-do lists
🗂️ Upload images & files
⭐️ Save text, images & links from the web
⚡️ Add notes & photos from your phone
🖼️ Organize visually
🚀 Collaborate with your team
Reflect
🚀 Built for speed
🌐 Networked notes
🎁 iOS app
🔐 End-to-end encryption
📅 Calendar integration
📚 Publishing
📸 Instant capture
🔎 Frictionless search
Walling
🧱 Collect anything in bricks
🎨 Color-code your ideas
👀 Flexible views & arrangements
🕺 Track & assign bricks
✅ All your tasks in one place
💬 Real-time comments
📅 Due dates & reminders
Capacities
📝 Block-based editing
💬 Messenger integrations
🌐 Media of all types
✅ Task management
🚀 Custom content types
🗂️ Contextual backlinks
💡 Tagging & block linking
📕 Sharing & PDF export
Heptabase
💭 Whiteboards & mindmaps
✅ Kanbans & lists
📝 Notes & journals
🔗 Visualize connected blocks
🗂️ Topics & heirarchies
🤝 Bi-directional linking
📥 Pull PDF highlights & annotations
Sublime
🌐 Links
👆 Highlights
📝 Notes
📖 Articles
📚 Books
🎙️ Podcasts
📽️ Videos
📸 Images
📑 PDFs
Readwise
✍️ Web highlighting
🛜 RSS feeds
📝 YouTube & PDF
💬 Twitter threads
📚 Read-it-later
📖 EPUBs
📬 Newsletters
ChatPDF
💬 Interact with Any PDF
⚡️ Get Insights or Summarise
🌎 Any Language
✅ Cited Sources
🔒 Simple and Secure
Research Rabbit
🔎 Intuitive Exploration
🎁 Personalized Recommendations
🔮 Powerful Visualizations
🧠 Connected Research
👋 Non-Spammy Alerts
🌐 Sharing and Collaboration
🔗 Zotero Integration
📝 Discover Authors
Elicit
🔎 Semantic Similarity Search
⌨️ Precision Keyword Matching
📘 Abstract Summaries
📌 Customisable Paper Views
⭐️ Study Type Filtering
💾 Save & Export Citations
Dropbox
👉 Share files
🗂 Store and organise
🔗 Sync your devices
🔐 Protect and secure data
🌐 Connect remote teams
🏃Keep work moving
💾 Always-on backup
✍️ Sign a document
📊 Track document analytics
Lazy
✂️ Universal clipper
💾 Save anything
💬 Gather Twitter threads
📹 Capture key moments from videos
📬 Capture newsletters
🗂️ Split content streams
Voicenotes
🎙️ Record anything
🤖 Ask AI to remember or brainstorm
📝 Create summaries, to-dos, blogs & more
🔮 Intelligent suggestions
🌏 50+ languages
📱 Web, iOS & Android
Taskade
🔮 Taskade AI
✅ Tasks & Projects
📝 Notes & Docs
📍 Mind Maps
💬 AI Chat
Scrivener
📝 Familiar Text Editing
🎨 Styles
🗂️ Corkboard
📋 Outliner
🎁 Templates and Icons
🎥 Screenwriting
📖 Tools for Non-Fiction
👀 View Documents Side by Side
📺 Full-Screen Writing
✅ Print, Export, Publish
Coda
✍️ Easier-to-write spreadsheet formulas
➗ Buttons that look like buttons and do stuff
⚡️ Automations to handle recurring tasks & reminders
⚙️ Full Integrations with 3rd-party services
📝 A formula editor with new line breaks, spaces, and tabs
🕺 Native forms
🔥 Host all your tools and tech in docs
Sudowrite
💬 Writer's block - Banished!
🧠 An always-available brainstorm buddy
🌊 Alternates for "ripple"
📘 Skip the trip to thesaurus.com
📖 Generate poems
📣 Rephrase tricky dialogue
🌎 Speaks 30+ languages
👱🏻♀️ Generate new characters
Craft
🔗 Structured & Linked Notes
🔥 Unparalleled mobile editing experience
👋 Frictionless Sharing & Export
💾 Works on all your Apple Devices, Online & Offline
🚀 Visual Content as a First Class Citizen
⭐️ Personalize to your heart’s content
Quillbot
📝 Paraphrasing Tool
📚 Summarizer
🤖 Co-Writer
✅ Plagiarism Checker
📑 Grammar Checker
📖 Proofreader
⌨️ Spell Checker
📣 Punctuation Checker
📓 Essay Checker
🔖 Citation Generator
Attio
🌐 Sync your data streams. Import, sort, and organize all your relationship data
⚙️ Build your ideal workflow. Easily design and implement the perfect workflow for you
💬 Collaborate more effectively. Share workflows, contacts, & communications in real-time
📬 Keep track of all the important conversations your team are having with intelligent communication sorting
🚀 Easily pull in data from all your favorite tools through Attio's first-class API and Zapier integration
📝 Keep track of every update and thought while working with your team with notes.
Front
📬 Connect every channel to your team inbox
👋 Team collaboration
☎️ Customer data placed in context
🤖 Powerful no-code automations and integrations
📊 Detailed insights & analytics
💬 Omnichannel messaging
💥 API Customization
LinkTree
🌐 Links & Buttons
💸 Monetization
🎨 Customization
📊 Analytics
🚀 Marketing Tech
🗂 Management
Scrivener
📝 Familiar Text Editing
🎨 Styles
🗂️ Corkboard
📋 Outliner
🎁 Templates and Icons
🎥 Screenwriting
📖 Tools for Non-Fiction
👀 View Documents Side by Side
📺 Full-Screen Writing
✅ Print, Export, Publish
Sudowrite
💬 Writer's block - Banished!
🧠 An always-available brainstorm buddy
🌊 Alternates for "ripple"
📘 Skip the trip to thesaurus.com
📖 Generate poems
📣 Rephrase tricky dialogue
🌎 Speaks 30+ languages
👱🏻♀️ Generate new characters
Sublime
🌐 Links
👆 Highlights
📝 Notes
📖 Articles
📚 Books
🎙️ Podcasts
📽️ Videos
📸 Images
📑 PDFs
Readwise
✍️ Web highlighting
🛜 RSS feeds
📝 YouTube & PDF
💬 Twitter threads
📚 Read-it-later
📖 EPUBs
📬 Newsletters
Milanote
✅ Write notes & to-do lists
🗂️ Upload images & files
⭐️ Save text, images & links from the web
⚡️ Add notes & photos from your phone
🖼️ Organize visually
🚀 Collaborate with your team
Voicenotes
🎙️ Record anything
🤖 Ask AI to remember or brainstorm
📝 Create summaries, to-dos, blogs & more
🔮 Intelligent suggestions
🌏 50+ languages
📱 Web, iOS & Android
Quillbot
📝 Paraphrasing Tool
📚 Summarizer
🤖 Co-Writer
✅ Plagiarism Checker
📑 Grammar Checker
📖 Proofreader
⌨️ Spell Checker
📣 Punctuation Checker
📓 Essay Checker
🔖 Citation Generator
Capacities
📝 Block-based editing
💬 Messenger integrations
🌐 Media of all types
✅ Task management
🚀 Custom content types
🗂️ Contextual backlinks
💡 Tagging & block linking
📕 Sharing & PDF export
Attio
🌐 Sync your data streams. Import, sort, and organize all your relationship data
⚙️ Build your ideal workflow. Easily design and implement the perfect workflow for you
💬 Collaborate more effectively. Share workflows, contacts, & communications in real-time
📬 Keep track of all the important conversations your team are having with intelligent communication sorting
🚀 Easily pull in data from all your favorite tools through Attio's first-class API and Zapier integration
📝 Keep track of every update and thought while working with your team with notes.
Dropbox
👉 Share files
🗂 Store and organise
🔗 Sync your devices
🔐 Protect and secure data
🌐 Connect remote teams
🏃Keep work moving
💾 Always-on backup
✍️ Sign a document
📊 Track document analytics
