If you’ve ever looked at the time of my posts, you’ll see they frequently come out about 2 AM. That’s not because I get up, restless, and blog my heart out at 2 AM. It’s because I schedule my posts for this early to make sure I hit folks on the east coast when they first wake up, and 2 AM seems to be a good time for this.
How do I do this, besides scheduling my times? I write my blog using an offline editor, so even when I am not connected to the Internet, I can still write articles, input images and other cool stuff so when I do connect, I can just upload my article and go back to sleep.
What’s my favorite free offline blog editor?
Windows Live Writer is my favorite offline blog editor, hands down. I am a Windows guy (sorry Mac friends) and Windows Live Writer lets me edit my images right in my blog post, lets me post to 3 different blogs (and downloads the styling of my blogs so I can see exactly how my article will look before it goes live on my blog). I couldn’t live without it.
Other offline blog editors
- ScribeFire – a plug-in for the Firefox browser. I used to love this and used it for a few years, but I like Live Writer a lot more.
- Qumana – Mac and Windows users rejoice, Qumana will work for all of you. I used this one for a short period of time, but it wasn’t very intuitive to me.
- Post2Blog – Never used it. Looks useful and interesting.
- w.bloggar – Never used it. Looks really cool because it will run on a USB drive, perfect for folks using a little netbook or something else that has a small hard drive.
- Blogdesk – Also never used this one, but from the screenshots, it looks the most like Windows Live Writer.
- What’s your favorite free offline blog editor?
- Have you ever tried the editors I haven’t used?
Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
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Hey Phil:
Thanks for sharing this, I wasn’t familiar with blog editors. I like the idea of scheduling posts ahead of time, but haven’t been able to do that too much with Blogger since the preview does not always match what gets published…so I will soon be switching to WordPress. In any case, I will be looking into the blog editors because it looks like they may make life much easier.
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Great tips, Phil! Installing MS Live Write as I type this.
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Hi Phil .. just installed Windows Live .. now to the learning .. & see how it goes – let you know later on ..
cheers
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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I hadn’t heard of these before, so thanks for the share. I utilize WordPress and have found when it comes to scheduling, writing in advance, etc. – it’s a great site for me. I have been a user for over 2 years and love the freedom of being able to write many posts in advance, scheduled to go live when I want.
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Don’t apologise for being a PC guy! I’m a Mac user through and through (actually, I use Macs and PCs all the time)… but I love LiveWriter. It’s the one programme that is 100% better than anything on the Mac… in fact it’s almost (but not quite) enough to make me buy another WinPC…
I’m going to try the portable version of w.bloggar you mention above. Looks promising for when I’m out and about.
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