Lele, Amod Jayant2016-11-212016-11-212016https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19211The idea that writing is a process and not a product is now generally accepted in writing education, but discussions of digital scholarly communication often neglect the idea, in theory and in practice. This thesis report introduces a Mac OS X software package to support the early stages of the writing process, called Brouillon. Brouillon’s features include: the concatenation of discrete note files into notebooks; notes appearing in multiple notebooks; note intake from mobile devices via Dropbox; and an open standard file format. The report also provides a model of the organization of products of the writing process, with a focus on Brouillon’s most unusual feature, multi-notebook notes. It discusses difficulties in implementation and identifies possibilities for future improvement.en-USAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Computer scienceCocoamacOSCompositionContent management systemPersonal information managementWriting processThesis/Dissertation2016-11-18