It's also free!Īnd LibreOffice has one fantastic feature NONE of the others have.
But I'm also looking into downloading LibreOfficeVanilla, which has got tons of great reviews as a wordprocessing suite.
I'm not trying to discourage people from trying Scrivener, and I may continue to work with it to see if maybe my initial reaction was unfair. Not Scrivener's fault, perhaps, but it's a problem for me. Scrivener is apparently Word-oriented, not Pages-oriented. I also discovered that moving my files from Pages to Scrivener will involve a huge amount of work, because it's not a simple drag and drop at all. I know I can page back through versions and pick the one I want, but that's a lot of faff I don't need. I save when I want to, and sometimes ditch a lot of changes and return to the original. I explored this via the preferences, and nope. You can choose how often you want it to save as you work, but you can't turn it off altogether. Apparently you can't turn OFF the autosave function in Scrivener. All I need to do is copy THAT chapter document onto my storage media, replacing the old one.Īnd here's a biggie. If I've added a comma to one chapter, I don't need to recopy the entire project folder to register the change.
And I suspect it's easier to back up individual changes as well, if you're just using simple, separate documents. And what is this Projects thingy? What's wrong with just creating a folder, naming it for your book, and putting all the book-related files and folders inside it-research, timelines, notes, character sheets, chapters, old versions, new versions, merged versions, you name it? Works for me. However, so much of what else it does either irritates or confuses me no end. I need a programme that will import and export in many different formats, which I do believe Scrivener does. (!!!) So I think I'll just try to find a good wordprocessing programme, and forget all the extra stuff. It recommends that you use a good wordprocessing programme for that. and that's not something Scrivener does, apparently. What I would appreciate is help with formatting a finished work. And yes, I can keep two files open side by side and work on them both at the same time, etc. I have been writing for nearly 20 years, and have developed my own system for organising my novel-which works fine.
SCRIVENER VS WRITEITNOW UPGRADE
It's not a replacement for a word processing programme, is it? What I need is another good wordprocessor, since the new version of Pages is apparently crap, and I won't be able to continue to use version 09 when I upgrade my computer to Yosemite/El Capitain, or whatever the OS is called when I get there. And I'm beginning to suspect it's not really what I need anyway. It's definitely not for the faint-hearted.
SCRIVENER VS WRITEITNOW SOFTWARE
I've been a wordprocessor user since 1994, and have always used Mac software (ClarisWorks, AppleWorks and two versions of Pages) so I thought this would be a skoosh to learn. I started the tutorial and had to abandon it because I felt I needed a tutor for the tutorial. While I'm in the middle of a life crisis involving my husband's health, and probably not really in a good frame of mind to be taking on new software, I found the thing incomprehensible and definitely NOT intuitive or user-friendly.
SCRIVENER VS WRITEITNOW TRIAL
I downloaded the trial version of Scrivener a couple of days ago.