Warren EllisInterview
Writer (Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein)
Adapted from Warren Ellis's interview on Uses This, published 5 March 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
Phone is a 16GB iPhone 3GS, bluetooth-paired with an old Nokia foldup wireless keyboard I found mouldering in a drawer a few months ago, and never far from a pair of heavy Monster Turbine earbuds or a Mophie Juicepack external battery shell.
I have a Kindle 3, the wifi-only version.
Communication
I deal with all my email through Gmail.
I was cheerfully using Seesmic Desktop 2 to give me Twitter, that facey book thing and Google Reader in realtime.
I am now using Tweetdeck, somewhat less cheerfully, for Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook (personal page and official "fan" page).
Productivity
On less work-intensive days I'll run the Snackr tickerbar on the right-hand side of my screen.
I will eventually remember to use Remember The Milk.
Browser
Notes
If I'm working on something film/TV related, I switch to Final Draft.
I'm sure CeltX is lovely, but if AMC tell me they only use Final Draft, I'm not going to tell them to change their entire workflow system to suit me and open source nerds, you know?)
Security
Passwords sit in 1password with the keychain sitting in Dropbox.
Media
For a quick overview of what's in there I use the Feedly extension for Google Chrome.
Storage
Jungle Disk copies everything offsite hourly.
Memeo pushes stuff to my external drive every time autosave fires, my main work folders live in Dropbox, and everything gets emailed out through Gmail so a copy lodges in the Gcloud.
Other
I'm in the process of moving much of my media archive to Zumodrive.