Mellel 6 released (Mac only)

Posted by Amontillado
Dec 19, 2023 at 10:44 PM

I like Scrivener in principle. At one time I was an enthusiastic user. The company behind Scrivener is truly an independent writer’s friend, something that can also said of the company behind Ulysses (Soulmen?).

However, a note taking application alongside a nice word processor with an outline based navigation panel is more to my liking. The note taking app, for me, is like Scrivener’s research folder. The word processor’s navigation panel is like Scrivener’s Draft Binder - and I realize the Binder does a whole lot more.

“Compiling” by switching style sets has been all I’ve really needed.

That’s sad about data loss in DocxManager. The developer is a nice guy and I’ve always hoped things worked out for him.

Dormouse wrote:

>
>Amontillado wrote:
>>I think I’d still look at alternatives to master documents.
>DocxManager,
>>for example.
> >DocxManager has no dark mode, and I’ve seen references to total data
>loss (maybe even in this forum).
>But even if it works, it doesn’t as stable and effective as many of the
>writing programs - Ulysses, Scrivener, Inspire Writer etc.
> >
>>Back then, it was extremely easy to entangle
>>subdocuments. The wise Word enthusiast, at least back then, pretended
>>master document mode didn’t exist because it was deadly easy to mangle
>>documents.
> >Master documents & subdocuments still work easily, but the vied
>switching doesn’t work as well as with the writing programs.
> >My dislike of the Scrivener et al system of building from the
>cards/scenes, is maybe a quirk of my own that I have realised over the
>years. It feels as if it puts the emphasis on the components and takes
>it away from the whole. I have a better grasp working from the whole
>document. Word now has good outline views (much better than the other
>WPs I have tried), and I prefer to work within that. Plus doing
>development work in Mindomo and exporting/copying into the docx.
> >>In the end, little-w words mean much more than Word, my beloved Mellel,
>>vim, or anything else. Use what works for you. If conditions are
>hostile
>>to preference, use export to docx and don’t tell what you really used.
>>;-)
> >Agree completely