A quotes from last night's email, and a complaint.

[taennyn]

First, the complaint, which is only sort of a complaint. Mostly, due to the responses from yesterday's poll*, I have eleven index tabs open, and considering how big the Deaths index has gotten, it should really be fourteen. Augh.


Related to indexes, I quotes:

Tae, who has recently admitted she's afraid of her story-index html files (again): I should really get Radish to introduce me to Scriviner.
Dormouse: Scriviner is awesome even when all you use are baby features. Scriviner is GOD, bow before it. Use no false idols.
Tae: . . my current writing tools are TextEdit, Word Count Tool, occasionally excessive open tabs or alternate text windows, and pillows. I don't think I'm even at the false idols stage.
Dormouse: ......oh my GOD. HEATHEN. :P
Tae: yes?


*: I really, really need to stop offering you lot Chevalier de Grammont as an option. I've run out of things I knew happened in that period, and am now feeling about like I'm in an unfamiliar living room in a blackout, and you lot want six more pieces. Yeek.

Comments

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

I use Scrivener for EVERYTHING now. Blog posts, community organizing, fanfic, original fiction... It's like someone took everything I use as a RL tool and crammed it inside my Mac. BTW, you can import webpages and such into Scrivener so if you do a prompts post, you can just dump it right into your file as is.

[klgaffney.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I import all the scraps of my writing, the txt files, the web pages, the comment fics, the occasional random reference photo--it's great for that. It's all nice and tactile and makes sense visually. I find that I still split my actual writing between the Scrivener file, random txts, and open blog windows, it just involves less angst now that importing them and re-arranging the pieces is no longer a big deal.

...and I sound like a commercial. =|

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

I don't think that stage can even be dignified with the idea of "idols" . . .

[larathia.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, Scrivener is indeed an awesome thing and I'm pretty sure I don't use even close to all the features.

[zero_pixel_count]

I apologise for my Sinclair problem and redact my regularly-scheduled grumbling about Scrivener.

...also in case it amuses you I have here a vintage Warsaw Pact other ranks greatcoat. (It smells).

[taennyn]

It's not a problem as such! I just always expect Witches' Horses to be more popular than Chevalier de Grammont, and it never, ever is.

I am suspicious of this Scrivener thing. It is New. But at the same time, forty-nine plus links per index is getting unmanageable. =\

Hee! I'm sorry it smells, but am not surprised that it does.

[zero_pixel_count]

Oh, it's a problem all right; it's the same problem I've been ranting about lately :P

I have a Storybook now, since that was one of the alternatives the Internets suggested. (I'm not going to pay for something that's not natively supported even if it probably *will* run under Wine, that's a voting-with-pocketbook thing for me). I will poke it with a suspicious stick at some point.

It'd be nice to have everything to hand, but realistically I suspect what I need is just far enough off-step from the standard tools to be unworkable. I doubt anything's going to integrate properly with Gramps (and I'm not re-typing all that geneaology stuff), I've gotten very fond of Lyx (especially now I have the journal-code conversion working), and I am *unreasonably* attached to the grep command for finding things (which only works if files are stored as text).

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

Come to Scrivener! Cooome!

[klgaffney.livejournal.com]

*waves away the other raves* At some point when nothing's pressing and you're resting between pieces, grab a glass of wine and run thru the full tutorial and make up your own mind. It's clearly written by someone that knows how painful software tuts can be, and they did their best to make it otherwise. It takes like a whole 20 minutes, if that. It's very friendly and the basics are fairly intuitive, and by the time you hit the end, you should know whether or not it's the tool for you.