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Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 3, 2011 at 01:59 PM
Edwin.
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Thanks for the comment. With great respect, I have clearly stated in the first post of my Writing Outliner blog that Writing Outliner was mostly inspired by Scrivener for Mac, when Scrivener has only a Mac version. Actually, I even have had an email exchange with the developer of Scrivener, Keith, he?s nice and he appreciate I was frank :)
Writing Outliner it?s not a 1:1 clone of Scrivener, what makes it different is that it?s built-on top of/seamlessly integrated into MS Word (so that you can utilize all it?s powerful functions). On the topic of ?original?, the respectable developer of Scrivener, Keith, he also has ever said that he was inspired by other programs.
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I know you said in 2009 that Scrivener was an inspiration. You may not have seen that but I was one of the guys at the LitLatte forum that came to your defense last year when someone blamed you for “shamelessly ripping off” Scrivener.
But for me, the 1:1 copy of the look and feel of the index cards of Scrivener was simply too much.
BTW: I did not say that Writing Outliner was a 1:1 clone of Scrivener. I said it looked like a 1:1 clone. That’s a big difference.
I was talking about the look and feel not about the functionality.
All the best, Franz
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 3, 2011 at 04:29 PM
Edwin, on a slightly different subject: you have mentioned in your blog that Writing Outliner will eventually integrate with you mind mapping program Mind Visualizer.
I have purchased Writing Outliner but don’t want another mind mapping program. Any chance for WO to import stuff directly from some of the more popular mind mappers, e.g. Mind Manager and/or Freemind/Freeplane? These seem to provide the formats most usually read by other mind mapping applications too.
Posted by dan7000
Jan 3, 2011 at 06:37 PM
Franz, your comments and Edwin’s make me think that I need to use WO for my next project. If it really is a “clone” of Scrivener, but it also includes Word, then to me that means it’s miles ahead of Scrivener in functionality.
Having tried Scrivener for Windows for a recent project over the last few weeks, I found it nearly unusable because of the lack of text formatting capabilities. If WO has everything Scrivener has, plus Word’s text formatting, then it will really be a killer app.
I’ll try it for my next project and see how it goes.
Posted by dan7000
Jan 3, 2011 at 06:56 PM
Downloaded and tried. Cannot get it to run. Crashes with “CoOutliner4Word error: the add-in has fired an exception. Unspecified error.”
Posted by Mitchell Kastner
Jan 3, 2011 at 08:24 PM
I am gun-shy about downloading the add-in too. I recall that Word crashed on me before when I installed the add-in. I should note however that the notice does state that the add-in does not work with MS Word 2010 64 bit