Author - an interesting app for composing scholarly work

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 1, 2019 at 01:22 PM

From my experience with Author, your assessment is right on target. The developer has fantastic ideas and ambition for this app, but there is always something that doesn’t quite work right or in an intuitive way. I hold out hope.

Paul Korm wrote:
Interesting. I’ve tried this out. It requires shifting back and forth
>from keyboard to mouse / trackpad, which is a drag on rapid entry or
>brainstorming. Dynamic view cannot be used to build an outline—one
>has to do mouse clicks to add text from dynamic view to the end of a
>document, which in itself is a bit meh. Of course there is no
>hierarchy. I’ve used Author from time to time and feel it is about 90%
>very good but always a bit off target.
> >Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Author has added a “dynamic view” feature, which is similar to Scapple,
>>but which is bound to your document. I haven’t really tried this out
>>yet, but if it works like is presented in the video (second video down
>>on the website below) it could be astonishingly useful… I haven’t
>seen
>>any other app do this.
>>
>>http://www.liquid.info/author.html
>>
>>Steve Z.