STOP TRYING TO MANAGE YOUR TIME. START CRAFTING IT.

Brett Terpstra, the man behind Notational Velocity fork nvALT (one of my three writing applications of choice), has written a great piece that addresses those who have said that his program is sluggish when dealing with longer pieces.
His solution? Break those pieces down. Or use something like Scrivener¹ to write them.

^{1 Scrivener also happens to be another of my three writing applications of choice.}