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...

If a cross-platform option appeals to you, you might take a look at Organize:Pro

http://www.taskfabric.com/

There is also the free application, Task Coach:

http://www.taskcoach.org/

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...

I don't supposed Bartleby is available.

Haven't made any attempt to see if any of these names are taken (probably they are):

Scrivlet
IdeaBridge
WiredNotes (the idea being that the notes are wired together)
ScribeWire
IdeaWire

Anyway, just a few (lame?) thoughts.

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,...

Can't answer your question, but I can say this: Scrivener for Mac is 50 times the program that the Windows version is.

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 ...

Yes, thank you!

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.