Version Your Writing With Developer Software Git

Keeping track of the changes that you make to your writing can be really difficult. Especially when writing a novel, and you’re trying to keep track of many different threads, often changing when stuff happens, or why, or to whom. It can be a nightmare to go back if you find yourself in a dead end.

Luckily, thanks to some out-of-the-box thinking by Chris Smith over at Stepcase Lifehack, there is a solution from an unlikely source – developer software Git.

Git is used by developers in order to keep track of and control the versions of files in a directory, effectively saving versions of a directory into a main repository that tracks changes. But what makes Git so useful for developers also makes it useful for writers.

I love it when people come up with interesting ways to solve problems, and I think this is a great idea that a lot of writers could find very useful.

Read the full article over at Stepcase Lifehack, for more information including how to download and install Git on Windows and OSX.

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