by Lori Paximadis | Nov 21, 2017 | business of editing, tips & tricks
Meet my client reference manual. Despite the photo, the majority of my client reference information now lives on my computer in Evernote; I keep the binder only for stylesheets and memos that originally came in hardcopy only. One of these days, in all my spare time, I...
by Lori Paximadis | Oct 24, 2017 | business of editing, editing basics, tips & tricks
My job as a self-employed editor means keeping track of dozens — sometimes hundreds — of discrete tasks for each project. And at any given time, I typically have three to five projects on my desk at the same time, sometimes up to ten in various stage of completion....
by Lori Paximadis | Jan 13, 2017 | business of editing, tips & tricks
Email can be a nightmare. All those messages jammed into one inbox, all clamoring for attention and action like toddlers wanting to show you their latest trick. How do you sort out the ones that truly need attention from all the rest, the ones who jammed a marble up...
by Lori Paximadis | Jun 27, 2016 | business of editing, tips & tricks
The usual workload here at Pax Studio is anywhere from three to six projects at a time, in various stages of progress, although sometimes it’s less, and sometimes it’s more. How do I manage all that? Block scheduling and interweaving. One of the first...
by Lori Paximadis | May 19, 2016 | business of editing, tips & tricks
True confessions: I love my label maker. It turns my filing cabinet and reference notebooks into things of beauty: neat, orderly, easily scannable to find what I need. However… I have learned to not turn so quickly toward the siren song of the label maker,...
by Lori Paximadis | Apr 18, 2016 | business of editing, tips & tricks
Anyone who has talked computers and productivity with me for more than five minutes knows of my love for TextExpander, a program that lets you create shortcuts for typing text that you use over and over and over again. TextExpander is a Mac program, but there are...
