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Scrivener goes 1.0

I’m a huge fan of the OS-X writing software Scrivener, and I can’t say enough good things about it. Fortunately I don’t have to repeat them, you can see some early thoughts here.

Merlinn Mann of 43 Folders has much the same impression as I do.

I’ve been waiting 5 years for this exact feature set and functionality to arrive.

Filed under the topic Tech: Computers on January 23rd 2007 at 3:35 am. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.

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6 Responses so far

  1. 1. Lee

    Amen, it’s marvellous.

  2. 2. spyscribbler

    Oh! Oh wow! Ohmigosh, ohmigosh, that’s exactly what I need!

    Heartbreak.

    I don’t have a Mac. *whimper* Is there anything … anything out there like it for Windows, that you or your commenters have heard of???

  3. 3. tobias s buckell

    Dunno, there is yWriter written by Simon Haynes.

    http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter_Screens.html

    It’s really Windowsy for me, in terms of GUI, but it does some of the same stuff. I just don’t see the same small-software innovation on the PC side as the mac side, so I’m not sure if there is anything that matches the feature set.

  4. 4. Scott Janssens

    Microsoft has OneNote (http://www.microsoft.com/onenote) which is a decent program, if not the same thing as Scrivener. OneNote is a generic note gathering program mostly with businesses in mind. It excels at letting the user organize disparate pieces of data (text, audio, video, web links, etc.) in any way they want. It can be used to keep a writer’s notes, but it isn’t specifically tuned for writers.

  5. 5. Julia

    Wow, I love this Scrivener thing, thanks for blogging it.

  6. 6. tobias s buckell

    Scott, yeah, I can see that kinda working.

    Julia, no problem, glad you liked it :-)

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