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Alternatives to scrivener for mac1/8/2024 ![]() There is also the ability to keep scene/location profiles to access as needed. I love the ability to write character profiles and back story, save them and access them whenever I need to enter info about their personality, wardrobe and other details. And, most importantly for me personally, I can save my knees from crawling around on the floor moving those awful index cards. A far superior method than laying printed sheets on the table or floor to move them around and change the sequence of events, This works well for me because I can stop and write a scene that may come to mind is out of the story sequence without losing it forever. My writing habits were fully formed in Word, but there were features lacking in Word that I would have hoped would be there.įor example instead of using the tried and true method of using index cards to set up scenes, Scrivener has a storyboard feature permitting a writer to examine and compare individual files on its ‘corkboard’. After using Word for so many years it was a bit of a challenge to change to a new writing program. ![]() The main reason why I am not using Scrivener all the time is, in the end, its license and the lack of better mind mapping functions (like Scapple).Īs a writer of fiction I have used MS Word for all of this century so far, until I came across Scrivener. Better compatibility between Windows and Mac version (hopefully it will be done with the final version of the Windows app) Better integration of Scapple would be great. Handling of images could be much improved, especially their resizing is cumbersome. (And yeas, Linux version would be also nice but it is probably essential.)įinally, there are a couple of minor complaints: There is iOS version but now Android version. I perfectly understand that the team of Scrivener programmers is extremely small and that they are doing an unbelievable amount of work, however, this is still an issue for me and the waiting for the Windows version 3 is just long. And the beta version 3 is still not perfect and I experienced multiple (although smaller) issues with it. The reason is that it would not be just one-time purchase but I would have to do a similar thing with every major update (they are, however, rare).Īnother issue for users of multiple platforms is that Mac version 3 is currently not compatible with the stable Windows version 1, only with the beta version 3 for Windows (there is no version 2 for Windows). I bought the version 2 for Mac but I am still hesitating to put money into the Windows version. Writing statistics allow gamification and myriad custom metadata options enable bending the software to your personal writing habits.įirstly, it would be great if there would be just one personal license that I could use both on Mac and Windows. It has a Kanban-like feature called corkboard that allows users to add descriptions to chapters or paragraphs in order to create a more coherent large text project. Scrivener also has a very powerful outline view, which makes it very easy to visualize even whole book projects. I could "eat my elephant" in very small chunks and hide the rest of the text but with a few clicks review the whole. And to someone like me who gets distracted, easily, this simple feature was revolutionary. But unlike in OneNote, the writer can view multiple "notes" at the same time, which makes it possible to view your work as a complete text. ![]() Behind the screens, Scrivener stores text as simple RTF files that the user can splice and dice into smaller pieces of text like "notes" that can be arranged and rearranged as the user wants. In many ways it's more comparable to OneNote than Microsoft Word as the user is not limited to a page view. The benefits of Scrivener are fairly simple. It simply helps to produce better work faster and get over the so-called "writer's block," which is the too-often-result of perfectionism. Scrivener can be a great choice for those of us who are always unhappy with their writing and churn out draft after draft, rearrange paragraphs endlessly, outline meticulously, and are just get too obsessive-compulsive about the quality of their work.
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