To be fair, the proprietary format is very transparent. It's a folder with a bunch of (IMO very readable and self-explanatory) XML with your writing stored as a

To be fair, the proprietary format is very transparent. It's a folder with a bunch of (IMO very readable and self-explanatory) XML with your writing stored as a RTF files further down the folder hierarchy. If I ever wanted to abandon scrivener, I think I could whip up a python script to convert it to a folder of markdown or LaTeX files per section pretty quickly. I have no concerns about losing my data to bit rot or the software no longer functioning on future computers. As for DropBox, yeah... that sucks; it's the only thing I use DropBox for nowadays too.