Tools to create well-optimized content

8. TrelloWe like to add all our blogpost ideas into Trello, turning each idea into a card that we can spec out with notes and move from list to list with a simple drag-and-drop.9. EvernoteFor super fast idea collecting, you can drop everything into Evernote—notes, snippets, photos, webpages, and more. The tagging system in Evernote is incredibly robust, so you can keep your ideas with a simple tag in a number of cool ways—by topic, by idea stage, and more.10. Google CalendarCalendar tools like Google Calendar can be repurposed as editorial calendars. If publishing one post per day, you can save your ideas as all-day events and move them around the calendar as needed. If you plan on scheduling multiple posts, add a calendar event to the specific publish time. Zoom in and out to see what you’ve got planned for a given day, week, or month.11. TodoistPlace your ideas into a to-do list where you can schedule when blogposts might go live and break down the blogpost writing process into manageable steps. Todoist lets you collaborate on shared tasks witha team, too.12. WunderlistAnother useful to-do list tool, Wunderlist can help you keep your ideas sorted into tasks and subtasks.Even consider adding a listicle idea and creating subtasks for each of thelist items you want to add.13. DropboxWhen your ideas come with files, Dropbox is one of the best spots to store and share things like pdfs, Word Docs, design files, photos, and more.


Tools to help you write easier and faster: 18. Google DocsMany bloggers go straight to the writing editor in their blog software (WordPress, Ghost, etc.). You can also consider writi...