Interesting article from the co-founder of Scrintal

Posted by Amontillado
Dec 31, 2024 at 02:24 AM

Scrivener is highly recommendable.

That said, I don’t use it for the reasons you cite and there’s one other thing, very silly of me.

There is a style in Scrivener called No Style. I really like styles, and having a style that is advertised as not being a style is jarring. And silly of me not to just get over it.

I like to open Devonthink and call that my Scrivener-esque Research folder. I like Mellel, so I open it up and think of it as the Draft folder.

Mellel’s Outline (navigator) works in some ways like Scrivener’s binder. I can drag and drop in the Outline, rearranging the manuscript.

Funny, too, how much I use Mellel.

When I outline, I like to be a little expansive. I have a style set for outlining that puts a page break in before every heading (auto-title) in the manuscript. When I click on an entry in the Outline, I see the related text in the edit window. It’s not unlike a two pane outliner, used in that fashion.

And yet, as much as tools that are as comfortable as old friends serve me well, I still yearn for the perfect outliner.

Darren McDonald wrote:
> I can understand why there are so many users
>frustrated with the compile features. I look forward to trying Lattics
>again when it is more developed.