Scrivener has become my new most favorite writing and research tool. If you’re on a Mac and you write anything–books, scripts, an article, a research paper, a dissertation, a blog post–then you need to do yourself a favor and check it out. [...]
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I believe that there is a law in the universe for backups: frequency is directly proportional to data loss, i.e., about the only time you really get serious about doing backups is when you’ve had a crash and lose your files. Or, to put the less negative spin on it, the more often you do a backup, the less data you lose. You know it. I know it. It is a law after all. We’ll call it the Universal Backup Law. [...] Over the years, I’ve used several pieces of software for writing, including: Word, Open Office, Google Docs, TextEdit, FileMaker (yes, a database to actually write the book in data fields), Stickies, Notes, and, once upon a special character, WordPerfect. I’ve used many desktop computers, many laptop computers, and even an iPod touch to outline and compose. But two months ago, I started using Scrivener (Mac OSX 10.4 and above required) and it has rocked my little writing world to the tune of about 30,000 words since then [...] |
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