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kleinbl00  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what app do you use to write?

Jesus fuck everything about that. Web app to plaintext to Word?

I beta test Final Draft. I beta tested Novamind. I was one of the early victims of Adobe Story. But I use Scrivener and have pretty much exclusively since 2012.



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veen  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought Scrivener was primarily for script writing. What is it good at and what doesn't it do?

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kleinbl00  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Scrivener is primarily for nonfiction. It won't do mindmapping which is probbably okay. It's good at literally everything else. 30-day fully-featured trial. You have nothing to lose.

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veen  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks, I'll give it a shot. I've never found mind maps to be useful so I don't mind its absence.

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user-inactivated  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Might want to try bibisco, as well. It's a free alternative to Scrivener.

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goobster  ·  2824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I use Scrivener for everything other than my day job. I utterly love it.

But my day job requires me to create and output exquisitely formatted sales proposals of around 100 pages or so. Scrivener is excellent at outputting scripts, books, etc, but it isn't a page-layout application for complex pages.

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