Make Your Life Easier Monday -- 3 great sites

I'm on my way to the dentist this morning, but here are 3 sites for Make Your Life Easier Monday. (Disclaimer: I don't belong to any affiliate programs for the sites listed below. Though if a bunch of you run over and sign up through these links, I'm probably going to kick myself.)

Visual Thesaurus Do you love words? Are you a regular user of Bartleby? Try this site. I use it all the time for work and for fun. It saved my life a couple of weeks ago in a naming workshop for a fundraising campaign. The word of the day today (in honor of St. Patrick's Day) is chloasma. You can try it for free and there is a nominal subscription fee that is worth every penny (and deductible if you use it for work). You also get access to their great newsletter and a daily "Word of the Day."

Scrivener This one is for writers. (Sorry, PC, this one is for Mac users only, but hopefully they'll come out with a Windows version). I have several friends who use it for novels. I use it for everything -- the binder feature lets you store all of the research, images, and notes for a project in one convenient place. The split screen feature, the automatic save, the target word counts, and on and onScrivener changed the way I write. (Considering its functionality, at $39.95, it's a steal.)

Springwise This site is for those of you who like to know what's going on before everyone else. Sign up for their weekly roundup (it's free) and the weeks hottest trends and most unusual new entrepreneurial businesses will pop up in your box. Today, there's a story about Picnik, an online photo editing tool (also free) that may be the free app answer to Photoshop. If you're good at spotting trends before they're trends, sign up to be a Springspotter and share your wisdom.

Send me links to the sites that make your life easier.

-- Cara