Something just struck me. We’ve done some amazing stuff with ECT in the last 30 days.

We’ve been building a writing/editing/publishing tool with ECT. It was used to publish a kindle book last summer that’s selling nicely. In December, for the first time, it was used to publish a book in Kindle, paperback and hard-cover editions: The Ants and The Coffee Pot. pressWoodInk was asked to appear at a publishing panel and local book fair. In ten days, Ants went from a dozen image files and a copy of the text to being available for purchase in all three formats. The book even has a book trailer on YouTube. A few weeks later, another book was published with ECT: City Limit (GrandViaduct). For us, it’s gravy that they’re great titles with striking covers. It’s doesn’t hurt that people are doing great work with our technology.

I mention covers for another reason. Amazon doesn’t want covers to appear at the front of books. Some people have found a way to force the cover to appear at the front. But, it has what’s called the double cover issue: the cover appears twice. We discovered a way to deliver what readers expect: to pick up a book, see the cover and then open to the beginning of the book. And we rolled that into our technology.

And, I’m now using a release of Nootcards day to day. I open it on my phone, tap create and then tap in my notes, maybe give it a title. Nothing exciting… yet. The first big innovation is chai. Chai let’s you socialize with yourself. Tap and a nootcard becomes an email or a task in Teamwork. Later: a dropbox file, calendar item, blog entry, Tweet. If I tap email, it asks for an email address and delivers the nootcard by email. If I choose teamwork, it asks me which project, what task list and what date to start and then delivers it to Teamwork for me. When I choose WordPress, it will ask me which blog (say a WordPress one) and when do I want it released. This won’t replace those other programs but it will let me do many simple things much faster. As we add support for Calendars, WordPress and Twitter, it’s going to become a hub driving, creating my world.