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From the website, it looks like many of their features would be useful as a general work support tool, despite the emphasis on writing.
It's a terrible shame that Scrivener 3 drops support for El Capitan. I want to try but upgrading my entire OS would be quite a hassle.
Also, if you haven't tried them, I highly recommend checking out WorkFlowy [2], Gingko [3], or Nulis [4] (disclaimer - nulis is my own project). Outlining and organizing projects as a tree structure is insanely powerful and convenient.
The idea of organizing a script/novel as a tree structure rather than a flat outline allows you to "zoom into" as many levels as you want, and conveniently focus on any part of your work. I recommend using separate branches for worldbuilding, characters, notes, and plot outline, summarize the high level ideas quickly, and expand on them by adding more levels.
Writing the actual draft though is much more convenient in emacs + fountain/markdown + org/imenu.
To take it to a crazy level of awesomeness consider storing your files in git, or at least dropbox, to have a history of revisions.
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[1] https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode
[4] https://github.com/raymestalez/nulis
Also, emacs/fountain screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/AJpUNsz.png
Looks awesome, truly a pleasure to use.
Anyone used scrivener and found it a useful tool for general note taking, a personal wiki, or getting things done? From the website, it looks like many of their features would be useful as a general work support tool, despite the emphasis on writing.
Note taking, probably not as good as Onenote or at least not as flexible. But it lets you keep notes in the same "place" as your work (assuming your work involves writing, of course) which for me personally is hugely beneficial.
For a wiki, I actually think it would work quite well. It gives you a lot of tools to sort and store information, and it plays nicely with storage like Dropbox. Only catch is, you need the software in order to be able to read/edit your wiki.
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Some details about the person behind it and maybe some links (on the page) would be great. These days I'm wary of downloading anything I can't get a wide range of opinions on by searching, and all I get are irrelevant results.
That's an excellent point! In focusing on the features and such, I forgot to write up an About page, I'll do that. For those reading here, I'm the guy that wrote a blog post on how to self-publish a book in 2017 that was on the front page here for a day or so back in February (www.zhubert.com). After that, I realized how ludicrous it was that publishing had to entail so much complexity, so I started thinking about wh…
Good work on the new release. As a long time Scrivener 2 user, I'm happy to see this. However, I wanted a simpler and subjectively nicer looking tool for distraction-free writing and thus made my own. It's free, has a few social features built-in, tracks writing progress/goals/distractions, and can make good looking books. Also, adding features to Singular Writer has been really easy, as evidenced by it being in exis…
Your landing page is very clear and easy. One tiny thing: the screenshot window title is "Social Writer" but every other reference is to "Singular Writer".
Originally the project was called Social Writer and those screenshots date back to that time. I decided the name was too limiting and changed it a couple of weeks ago.
Images will update shortly.
Good work on the new release. As a long time Scrivener 2 user, I'm happy to see this. However, I wanted a simpler and subjectively nicer looking tool for distraction-free writing and thus made my own. It's free, has a few social features built-in, tracks writing progress/goals/distractions, and can make good looking books. Also, adding features to Singular Writer has been really easy, as evidenced by it being in exis…
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That's an excellent point! In focusing on the features and such, I forgot to write up an About page, I'll do that. For those reading here, I'm the guy that wrote a blog post on how to self-publish a book in 2017 that was on the front page here for a day or so back in February (www.zhubert.com). After that, I realized how ludicrous it was that publishing had to entail so much complexity, so I started thinking about wh…
sorry to be that guy ...could there be a Linux version one day? I feel unclean if I have to start Windows
I only used Scrivener for my master thesis a few years ago but keep recommending it to everyone who is about to write a longer text. It's a great tool and helped me a lot to overcome writing procrastination. Very happy to see it's actively developed.
I'm curious what features you found/find most helpful.
Good work on the new release. As a long time Scrivener 2 user, I'm happy to see this. However, I wanted a simpler and subjectively nicer looking tool for distraction-free writing and thus made my own. It's free, has a few social features built-in, tracks writing progress/goals/distractions, and can make good looking books. Also, adding features to Singular Writer has been really easy, as evidenced by it being in exis…
This looks great. At first sight, it seems more like an alternative to Ulysses. Would you say that's accurate?
Productivity and publishing, that's what I wanted.
Ulysses looks great but had nothing to help me measure my novel's progress. Writing down before/after word counts was just lame (sorry). The publishing tools were also rather limited.
Scrivener helped me publish my first book, but, as I mentioned, I didn't like looking at it (sorry!).
So Singular Writer aimed to have the looks of Ulysses and the brawn of Scrivener (without all the configuration).
