43folders.com — If you write like I do (and I pray that you do not), you have a messy approach to drafting that is iterative, intuitive, and far from linear. Scrivener makes the anarchic approach to writing a little less chaotic by letting you create any number of ?index cards? which contain a title and a short synopsis of what that index card is meant to contain.
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dazwanJan 22, 2007
Looks good. I'd probably get it if I didn't already use OmniOutliner for writing my essays.
kavaliroJan 22, 2007
Keynote does these things. And is GPL. But unfortunately only is for Windows.I'd love it if Keynote also had a "mind map" view.
airwalkJan 22, 2007
I too use the freeware Scrivener Gold. Works fine for me, in some ways better than Scrivener (i.e. you can have custom colors and width in full screen mode, which is easier on my eyes).Get it here: <a class="user" href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/freestuff/ScrivScreens.html">http://www.literatureandlatte.com/freestuff/ScrivScreens.html</a>
ambervJan 23, 2007
Ah, see, I took the prefix of this list, "It doesn't look as swanky as Scrivener but it has better features:" to mean that the list would then entail all of the things that Jer's did better than Scrivener. Why else would you post a list of features for another application in a Scrivener thread, especially when so many of them wholly overlap? Anyway...The one thing I do quite like about the database feature is how easy it is to make a new entry. I for one do not find index cards to be all that troublesome a way of keeping track of characters and whatnot, and I like that I can expand upon them in great detail by adding text beneath the card, if I so please. It is really just a matter of acclimation and preferred information input. Jer's is more adept at adding information as you write prose, and Scrivener has more tools for premeditated data requirements; though either can be used inversely with only a minor lack of ease.
fumanJan 27, 2007
I also use Jer's Novel Writer, but have downloaded Scrivener to try it out based on the huge number of positive reviews I've been reading from all over.
michaelb1Feb 6, 2007
Should've named it Bartleby.
michaelb1Feb 6, 2007
Damn! Beat me to it.Schrivener is the only word in the English lanuage what my mind associates with the phrase "I prefer not to"
chicken2niteFeb 23, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11231">http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11231</a>
ioannusdeveraniApr 18, 2008
Not the iWork programme! This is something completely more different, and completely more lame.