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I owned Scrivener on my old 2011 iMac. I loved it, and it did everything it said, but I got bogged down in the OCD of organizing, so I tried minimalist editors

by eggy 5y ago

I owned Scrivener on my old 2011 iMac. I loved it, and it did everything it said, but I got bogged down in the OCD of organizing, so I tried minimalist editors like Ulysses[1] and WriteMonkey[2]. Even timeline, video-editing-esque editor like Causality[3]. I had used Celtx[4] many moons ago with a subscription to collaborate with others. All have their strengths and they are all good depending on what it is you're writing. I have settled on just using OneNote for work, writing, scratchpad, and list making, or collecting information. I think it was ahead of its time since 2003 and now. It is quick, intuitive, and you can minimize it to the workspace, and you can search throughout it. I would like a DB interface of some sort... Sometimes plain markdown and a simple text editor stored in a database is probably good enough for most projects not involving mixed media. OneNote does it all. [1] https://ulysses.app/ https://ulysses.app/ [2] https://writemonkey.com/ https://writemonkey.com/ [3] https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/causality.html https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/causality.html [4] https://www.celtx.com/index.html https://www.celtx.com/index.html

cratermoon 5y ago
For certain, most of these documents-as-organized-chunks applications can lead to a lot of yak-shaving. I don't know, though, that it's any worse than getting bogged down in trying to make Word format a document to look like it needs to look and dealing with it unexpected reformatting everything because of a small change. > Sometimes plain markdown and a simple text editor stored in a database is probably good enough for most projects not involving mixed media. Even when you have mixed media, there are plenty of tools out there now that can take markdown and other files and generate a document in rich format, and those are the ones I gravitate towards now.

by eggy 5y ago

cratermoon 5y ago

For certain, most of these documents-as-organized-chunks applications can lead to a lot of yak-shaving. I don't know, though, that it's any worse than getting bogged down in trying to make Word format a document to look like it needs to look and dealing with it unexpected reformatting everything because of a small change. > Sometimes plain markdown and a simple text editor stored in a database is probably good enough for most projects not involving mixed media. Even when you have mixed media, there are plenty of tools out there now that can take markdown and other files and generate a document in rich format, and those are the ones I gravitate towards now.