One of the easy ways to stay productive is work offline and distraction free. I often prefer desktop blog editors to write a blog post, as I can stay away from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and so on.
The important thing we need to know is how to make the work process easier and faster to be more productive and effective.
So, usually you will be blogging from the default dashboard, but you need to accept the fact that default dashboard lacks in many features.
Let’s see what desktop blogging editors can offer something new. Usually, our target is to get a WYSIWYG editor, which will help u us in formatting.
For Mac OS, you have following options:
Useful list of Desktop Blog Editors:
Open Live Writer
The open live writer is the best desktop blog editor for Windows; the free application can turn your writing experience. It has many excellent features which lack in default dashboard.
The plugins integration in Windows live writer helps you to be more productive and work faster. It supports most of the blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and much more.
The only thing which I miss is a Mac variant of Windows live writer. This is so far my fav. Desktop editor and it offers many image editing and features that you need.
For ex: Add watermark to images, Add tables and much more. If you are deciding between many other editors, OLW should be your first choice for WordPress.
<Link: Open Live Writer>
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Creative writer
It totally changes the working environment. The full-screen distraction free editor can increase your creativity in writing.
The undisturbed workspace will let you be more productive. It doesn’t support any plugins like OLW, but the distraction free workspace can make you be more productive by letting your thoughts flow in.
Indulge yourself in a relaxed and calm atmosphere and achieve a whole new level of concentration! WordPress user can use this feature in latest version of WordPress, and it’s very useful when you are writing post from WP dashboard.
<Link: Creative Writer>
Thingamablog
Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes it easy for publishing your blog post effortless.
Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a CGI/PHP enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.
You can publish your blog post with single click, remotely via email, create unique layout with customizable templates, etc.
<Link: ThingamaBlog> Last updated in 2009 so I would suggest skip it.
Though out of all Open Live Writer is my favorite and I have not found any best alternative to it. Do let us know which desktop blog editor you are using and which one you recommend to others?
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I’m also a bit WLW fan, I haven’t found anything that will really replace it, but the lack of updates for years is getting to me. The latest annoyance that has me looking for something to replace it is that it has no support for windows font scaling, so on higher resolution screens you’re forced to deal with minuscule text or to set your screen resolution down to something sub optimal to use it.
If anyone has found a solution that comes even close and plays nice with blogger/blogspot and it’s default (picasa/google+) picture hosting I’m all ears.
I thought you were a mac user. Do you blog using a OS X application or do you only use windows for blogging ?
what about the seo for images and posts,
like how do we add the ALT text through windows live writer for images?
thank you
Nice list! I love Windows live writer. But the down side of WLW is that when you save the post from WLW to your blog, the image names does not belong accurate. e.g if you use ‘-‘ between the word in image name WLW ignores those when uploading the post to your blog.
Hi Srivathsan
Good Review. I know only Windows Live Writer from the above list. I will try other tools too.
Check Zoundry Raven – another interesting tool.
Using WLW since long time.Not tried any other blog editors mentioned in this articles.Hope I don’t need to search for other blog editors as WLW works fine for me.
This was useful for me way back when my internet connection wasn’t stable yet (that’s a looong time ago) because I can do my stuffs without really worrying that much. Im using blogdesk back then and its really a good productivity tool for bloggers. However these days, Im always connected to the internet so I rarely use it now.