5 Essential Blogging Tools for Productive Bloggers (2026)
Good tools give you more time to write. In 2010 this guest post picked five tools for the “ultra blogger”: Evernote, Posterous, Twitme, Dropbox and CreaWriter. Posterous, Twitme and CreaWriter are gone, but the jobs they did still matter: capture ideas, publish anywhere, share automatically, sync drafts and write without distractions. Here are the best blogging tools for each job in 2026.
Quick answer: A productive blogging toolkit in 2026 covers five jobs: capture ideas (Evernote, Google Keep or Notion), write without distractions (iA Writer, Typora or the WordPress block editor’s distraction-free mode), sync drafts (Google Drive or Dropbox), share posts automatically (Jetpack Social or Buffer) and publish from anywhere (the WordPress mobile app). Add Canva for images and a grammar checker for polish.
Table of Contents
Best blogging tools for each job
1. Capture ideas: Evernote, Google Keep, Notion
Evernote, the 2010 pick, still clips web pages and notes across devices, though its free plan is now limited. Google Keep is a free, simple alternative, and Notion works well for an editorial calendar.
2. Publish anywhere: WordPress app and email-to-post
Posterous, which let you blog by email, shut down in 2013. Today the WordPress mobile app lets you write and publish from your phone and you can save drafts from anywhere and finish them later.
3. Share automatically: Jetpack Social, Buffer
Twitme auto-posted new WordPress posts to Twitter. Now Jetpack Social shares to Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky and more, and Buffer schedules posts to most networks, including X. See our list of Twitter tools for bloggers.
4. Sync drafts: Dropbox, Google Drive
Dropbox still syncs files between devices, now with a 2 GB free plan plus referral bonuses; Google Drive includes 15 GB free shared with Gmail. Read how to get more free Dropbox space.
5. Write without distractions: iA Writer, Typora, WordPress
CreaWriter is gone, but full-screen writing apps like iA Writer and Typora give you the same calm. WordPress itself has a Distraction Free mode in the block editor’s Options menu.
More tools worth adding
- Canva for featured images and social graphics.
- A grammar checker such as Grammarly or LanguageTool.
- Google Search Console to see what people search before they find you.
- An AI assistant for outlines and research, while you write in your own voice.
For WordPress plugins, see our best WordPress plugins for bloggers.
Originally written by guest author Alex of FreshEgg. Updated for 2026 by QuickOnlineTips.
FAQ
What tools does every blogger need?
A place to capture ideas, a distraction-free editor, cloud sync, an image tool and a way to share posts.
Can I blog by email?
Some platforms and plugins offer email-to-post features, but the WordPress mobile app is the simpler way to publish on the go.
What happened to Posterous?
Twitter bought Posterous in 2012 and shut it down in 2013.
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This is a nice selection of tools, personally I prefer Sugarsync over drop box. I tried them both but found Sugarsync’s style a little more set it and forget it making it easier to use.
Drop box is awesome… I also use a tool called syncplicity it’s the same idea but also allows you to sync your articles with google docs so you can edit them from anywhere.