If you're struggling to write without a working laptop, you could try use you phone to dictate audio notes to yourself and then send them to a service like Rev . It costs $1 a minute of audio. Alternatively Nuance, the company that makes dictation software, have a premium iPhone app that's worth using. You basically use your phone like a microphone, it sends the audio to the cloud and transcribes it. Later on when at a computer, you can clean it up, edit it and press publish.