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Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by faceplanted »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #29

Why is use Scrivener, is I need a tool where I can easily move sections and subsections around and give each a status/flag. There some other things in Scrivener that are nice, but this is core to me. Any other editor for writing books where I can easily see and move sections around is not for me.

Didn't you mean to say "where I _can't_ easily see and move things around"? or are you making a different point I'm not understanding, because it looks like you're negating yourself and I'm not sure what you mean.

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by notjustanymike »

weedfroglozenge wrote: post #15
brtkdotse wrote: post #13

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> It gives you Jira level power I’d rethink this analogy for the HN crowd

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Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by jedimastert »

I don't know if the developer will see this, but I don't feel like it's worth making a bug; I almost always prefer screenshots to be near the top of a readme like this. I could glean most of the selling points from a glance at the screenshots, and especially for an interface for creative outlet I need to see the UI anyways.

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by bitexploder »

maydup-nem wrote: post #3

it's amazing what people will do to avoid using emacs

Long time emacs user. I have been enjoying vscodium with some Emacs and markdown plugins for almost all writing and note taking. Been using PyCharm for Python dev. Just felt I didn’t have time to fiddle with my lisp code and Emacs setup the last few years. I still hop in for org mode once in a while, otherwise, I have moved on. VS code is kind of this generations Emacs. I think it does most things better for most people.

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by kayodelycaon »

flenserboy wrote: post #27
the_lonely_road wrote: post #12

If anyone is looking for a paid product, Scriviner has been amazing for my novel writing productivity. You can sync your smart phone version to your desktop version using Dropbox. It gives you Jira level power over how your organize your project and has really easy export functionality that turns your writing into all kinds of industry standard sizing and layouts. I know it sounds like I'm affiliated based on that gu…

I know plenty of writers who are fond of Scrivener. My personal choice for a paid product (as I use a Mac) is Ulysses — going back and forth between the Mac & iOS versions is painless, and its bare-bones, grouped-file interface fits right with my workflow. Export options are plentiful, and it pairs well with Pandoc. Both are good.

Note for those interested:

* Ulysses is plain text markdown.

* Scrivener uses RTF. (There is markdown support but iirc it's on top of rich text, not in place of it.)

:)

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by Jeff_Brown »

torh wrote: post #17
lifty wrote: post #5

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it's amazing what people will do to avoid writing a novel

it's amazing what people will do to avoid reading a novel

I think it's amazing people read novels. Even if I had infinite time I'm not sure I would.

Not that I'm against them! A great novel is a beautiful thing, and I'm glad someone is out there to enjoy them.

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by alok-g »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #29

Why is use Scrivener, is I need a tool where I can easily move sections and subsections around and give each a status/flag. There some other things in Scrivener that are nice, but this is core to me. Any other editor for writing books where I can easily see and move sections around is not for me.

Moving sections around is doable in Microsoft Word too using Navigation Pane.

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by alok-g »

omarhaneef wrote: post #30
KingOfCoders wrote: post #29

Why is use Scrivener, is I need a tool where I can easily move sections and subsections around and give each a status/flag. There some other things in Scrivener that are nice, but this is core to me. Any other editor for writing books where I can easily see and move sections around is not for me.

Highland 2 does this very nicely, and you can keep it all in .md

Link: https://highland2.app/screenwriters.php

Requires MacOS.

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by kayodelycaon »

brtkdotse wrote: post #13
the_lonely_road wrote: post #12

If anyone is looking for a paid product, Scriviner has been amazing for my novel writing productivity. You can sync your smart phone version to your desktop version using Dropbox. It gives you Jira level power over how your organize your project and has really easy export functionality that turns your writing into all kinds of industry standard sizing and layouts. I know it sounds like I'm affiliated based on that gu…

> It gives you Jira level power I’d rethink this analogy for the HN crowd

I think it's pretty apt. Scrivener is a large, configurable application. The only real difference in the analogy is stock Scrivener is easier to navigate and nicer to use than stock JIRA.

Re: novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels

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Post by Jeff_Brown »

As a fan of personal knowledge bases, siloing my novel(s) in a separate app from the rest of my writing would bother me.

In fact my data is already split between Semantic Synchrony[1] and org-roam[2], and it's a bummer.

[1] https://github.com/synchrony/smsn/

[2] https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

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