I had to make a similar decision recently and decided on DTpro. As far as I know the current version is free. So why not give it a try? It is a complicated and rather cumbersome application but I found it to be worth its price (I paid for it because I thought that way I could get rid of those ugly y...
I just finished a non-fiction book, 200 pages. I found the combination DevonThink plus Scrivener best for my particular workflow which required a lot of research. DevonThink, though it has a very unelegant (some say ugly) UI and often unfriendly support team, is unsurpassed for the accumulation of w...
Thank you for the hint. It did work -- but only once. Auteureist crashed and I haven't been able to open it since. Seems like the developer still has quite a bit of work to do. Can't recommend buying the app at this point. R.
Thanks everybody for your replies. I opted for iDisk simply because I trust Apple more than other companies. I use DropBox (the free 2 GB) for the documents I am working on; once they are done I upload them to iDisk. Apart from iDisk and DropBox I also use TimeMachine plus the occasional DVD back-up...
People should be polite when they post here. And they should use the word "please" sometimes. And then they should remember that this here is the space for wishes, not demands (ofc, they can edit their posts after submitting them!).
Apple already took my Euro 4,99 (ca. 7,50 Dollars) but hasn't delivered the app yet... Not your, the developer's, fault, I know. Just wanted to let you know.
According to the definition here, I am a "legitimate" writer now. But -- was I "illegitimate" during all those years that I was writing and not being published? Was Kafka "illegitimate" because more or less none of his stuff was published during his lifetime? Rimbaud? I...
I just wrote a non-fiction book with plenty of foot notes and finished (polished) the manuscript in Pages 09. I liked it a lot. You should get this though: http://www.tool-forcesw.com/foreversave-lite/ It is a little tool that will automatically save your Pages document every few minutes (or even se...