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Hmm, can anyone compare this to Scrivener, my current writing tool? Best about Scrivener is the dragging around of chapters, creating chapters, renaming etc. in
by _Codemonkeyism 9y ago
Hmm, can anyone compare this to Scrivener, my current writing tool? Best about Scrivener is the dragging around of chapters, creating chapters, renaming etc. in the tree view.
- cstross 9y agoHis mention of Scrivener in the intro was so brief that I have difficulty believing he even read the interactive tutorial, much less wrote one or more books using it. (I've written and published about a dozen novels using Scrivener, via imprints of Penguin, Macmillan, and Hachette, and I'm a beta-tester for the forthcoming Scrivener 3.) While Scrivener doesn't really emphasize page-by-page thumbnails as a navigation tool (what does, aside from Word or Pages, these days?) it just about throws the kitchen sink at the problem of how to structure a long compound document, with corkboard, outliner, and multi-select scrolling subdocument views of a project (in the current version: the next release is considerably more powerful).
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoThanks!
- edgarvaldes 9y agoWhat I don't like about Scrivener is the propietary format. I would love a text editor for writers, with simple text files as format, but some GUI for organization of chapters/outlines/characters, etc.
- rainbowmverse 9y agoScrivener saves in open formats (XML and RTF), but it's nearly impossible to figure out what's what unless you write your own program to open them. It's a bunch of RTF files with numbers for names and a few index files in XML.