Can you love software?
Jul. 11th, 2010 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
esemeBecause I think Scrivener is the best thing since sliced bread and pizza.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
Watch those videos - it can store each scene or chapter as a separate entity which can be accessed from a central screen. It then exports all parts of your manuscript as one RTF file. It will even change the font when you export, and do things like convert italics to underlined.
It also has a second area to store reference material, like images, sound files, PDFs, and websites. You can have a reference picture up in one pane, and your writing in another. These extra files can also be notes. They are not exported when you compile the manuscript.
It can keep track of word count and word goals, and also has a full-screen mode (you can't see anything but the writing).
It's stunning.
I've imported my latest project, and while that took time, I'm pretty sure this is going to speed things up a great deal - no more fumbling between two or three windows.
Oh, and it's a Mac only product, which makes me squee.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
Watch those videos - it can store each scene or chapter as a separate entity which can be accessed from a central screen. It then exports all parts of your manuscript as one RTF file. It will even change the font when you export, and do things like convert italics to underlined.
It also has a second area to store reference material, like images, sound files, PDFs, and websites. You can have a reference picture up in one pane, and your writing in another. These extra files can also be notes. They are not exported when you compile the manuscript.
It can keep track of word count and word goals, and also has a full-screen mode (you can't see anything but the writing).
It's stunning.
I've imported my latest project, and while that took time, I'm pretty sure this is going to speed things up a great deal - no more fumbling between two or three windows.
Oh, and it's a Mac only product, which makes me squee.
