No doubt, plain text is inviting for some writing projects, especially in the early stages. However, I've never understood the supposed advantage of semantic formatting. I mean, I get the theory of it, but the practicality never really resonated with me. All that said, I like the new Ulysses, becaus...
I think the answer to your question about whether or not to import your Word-based draft into Scrivener might depend on what stage you are at with the draft. If you're largely happy with the organization and are just massaging the text, keep working in Word. But if you find you're unhappy with the o...
In my view, the best choice as a OneNote replacement on a Mac is Curio. I wrote about that in the review I did for Mac Appstorm. If you're interested, you can read it here: http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/office-review/curio-a-workshop-for-your-creative-projects/ I reviewed the newest release just l...
Scrivener has changed the way I write, because it actually encourages me to write. Writing, of course, is a labor and will always be so, but with Scrivener I finally have a tool that lets me work the way I want to. I write software reviews (for Mac Appstorm) as a hobby. Scrivener takes the drudgery ...
I don't have any experience with the regular sized iPad, but I am starting to get the hang of thumb typing in landscape mode on the Mini. I have short fingers, but wide hands, so touch-typing on the on-screen keyboard is kind of out of the question. The screen is clear enough so reading the text is ...
So far, Folding Text is a bit of a disappointment to me. There's a lot of potential here, and I suspect that further development will greatly improve the application. Primarily, I find the limited export options very unsatisfactory. If you're going to create an editor that uses a sorta-kinda markdow...
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt may have a bad title, but it's very entertaining. It's about the rediscovery in 1417 of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things by an Italian book hunter by the name of Poggio Bracciolini. Greenblatt's assertion is that the Epicurean philosophy espoused by Lucretius was ...
I don't love low prices for software. If I value the application, I want and expect to pay a reasonable price for it. That's the only way to ensure that development continues. The idea that all software needs to cost less than $10 is idiotic, and yet I continually see comments (not necessarily here,...
I just finished David Roberts' "Finding Everett Ruess," which is part biography, part mystery and part personal narrative. Long a character of almost mythic stature, Ruess was a 20 year old painter who disappeared into the high desert of Utah in 1934 and was never seen again. Roberts does ...
Nice looking app. I just downloaded to my iPod Touch. Seems like a versatile and handy tool. I don't write fiction, but it seems adaptable to nonfiction.