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Posted by Jon Polish
Feb 28, 2023 at 07:47 PM
Not my intention. Still, it seems a shame to murder so many electrons.
Jon
Posted by Dormouse
Feb 28, 2023 at 08:49 PM
I’m all in favour of developers contributing, replying, announcing so long as it’s clear who they are. That just improves everyone’s understanding.
I’m not sure why Scrivener is offering a discount. They always used to for NaNoWriMo but I don’t remember others. And their versions have been remarkably long-lived so far. I can’t imagine them wanting to go through the pain of producing a v4 for Windows. otoh, for general users, the whole design feels rather long in the tooth compared to more modern, frequently more expensive subscription-based, programs. Maybe they need more new users because that’s their only source of income.
Posted by Amontillado
Feb 28, 2023 at 11:46 PM
Regarding Hyper Plan as an outliner, I have not used it as a writing tool for some time - but I use it daily for personal management and it saves my bacon regularly.
I have a Hyper Plan file as a warning system for bills coming due. There are currently 66 lines in my budget. Most are monthly, some are per quarter and per year.
Vendors can’t be relied on to send timely invoices (TXU, I’m looking at you) so I have to keep an eye on the next few weeks. My budget spreadsheet includes predicted due dates, and you would think that would do the trick, but obvious things get buried.
My budget Hyper Plan file lets me see the next week, two weeks, or month. When I pay a bill, I right click its Hyper Plan card and use the “shift date” feature to kick it a month, quarter, or year down the road, depending on its billing cycle.
I’m never late on a bill, even if I don’t get a timely invoice.
Regarding Hyper Plan as a writing tool, I created a new file with attributes for chapter, arc, and pov.
I can view the cards as array with rows for chapters and columns for arcs. If I added a property for date, I could view the cards as a table sorted by date for a timeline.
If I added properties to flesh out Aeon Timeline, I could export the table as a csv file and import directly into Aeon. I haven’t actually done that, but I’m sure that would work…. Oh, heck, it’s just a few mouse clicks…. Yes, it imports into Aeon just fine.
I originally bought Hyper Plan for outlining and then used it for kanban like things. I think I might have a go tonight at planning a story with it.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 1, 2023 at 09:47 AM
Wow, that’s an interesting use case! Never even occurred to me that HyperPlan could be used in that particular way.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 1, 2023 at 06:15 PM
There are many browser-based writing apps, some almost identical to Scrivener, others borrowing some of Scrivener’s ideas. I imagine they must be having some impact on sales of Scrivener, which could be why the sale.
Steve Z.