Typing on a touchscreen is made a lot easier using Swiftkey, which adapts to your writing style and predicts the word you are typing, meaning that you often only have to type two letters before the word appears as one of three choices for you to click on and move onto the next word. It's the best-selling Android app of 2012 for good reason and you can get a free trial for a month to see if it's for you.
If you want to make use of Samsung's S Pen to write handwritten notes you could try out Write – the self-styled word processor for handwriting with an impressive set of tools for editing and navigating handwritten documents. Another handwritten-note capturer is Genial Writing 2, which lets you backup your notes to a cloud service like Dropbox.
And don't forget about the Note II's microphone – perfect for catching notes and thoughts on the run. Downloading an app like Easy Voice Recorder will let you take advantage of being able to record in various formats and storing your recordings in folders.
If you want to write your ideas stamped with a date, Diaro is a free password-protected diary app you can use to write down notes ordered by when you thought of them. It has a good search function too to quickly find a certain note. If, instead, you are a fan of colour-coded tabbed note-making in a binder format you could also try out My Binder: Tabbed Notes to jump to the notes you want to get to fast.
Other more generic free note-making apps which also let you capture and save web pages include the highly recommended Catch, Evernote and Springpad.
Project management tools
As well as just writing, to create a successful book you need to plan it – creating a plot structure and characters. It's always a good idea to map out your full story before you start writing.
One useful project management tool for this is MindJet which lets you brainstorm your ideas and plan out relationships between characters.
If you like to mindmap your ideas – Mindomo is another good way of visualising what is happening to who and what the consequences may be on other characters.
If you've used index cards to plot out your stories in the past you can recreate this on your Note II using the free CardBoard Novels. It even provides layouts for Four-act structure, Character Archetypes, Character Details, Hero's Journey and Scene ideas and breakups.
The free Outliner app provides you with a checklist to ensure you are following your writing schedule as set by you. This is a good way or ensuring you are getting the necessary work done in a timely order.
Another handy daily tasks reminder is Habit Streak.
Proofing and fact checking
We all need to consult word tools like the Advanced English and Thesaurus app occasionally. And if you aren't sure what a new phrase being bandied about really means or want to keep up to date with the latest lingo, it's worth checking out the Urban Dictionary app.
When it comes to proofing, you can just sit and read through your work, but nothing points out a mistake faster than having it read to you. The free app Classic Text to Speech Engine will let you listen to your work to spot those bad words and sentences. You even have a choice of 40 different voices for it to be read to you in.
Converting to epub format
If you want to sell your work as an ebook, unless you have been using an app that saves it in the correct format, you will need to convert your writings into the correct format for ebooks – usually ePub. Ebook converter (£1.62) will do this for you on your phone.
