Have to agree with @Astaff's thought -- This Beta is very usable indeed, and has been for many months.
In it, you get a myriad of abilities and features which aren't in other writing software. That's Scrivener. And having years with this team, I know they will make all the depths of it work. Patience is much easier because they invite us to use every part that already does work.
Thanks though for mentioning Zettlr. Trying it, I immediately run across bugs more or less at the level of Scrivener 3 Beta, but it is interesting -- and it is also useful. It has its own very nice smoothness in its design, which I also appreciate.
I'm putting it side-by-side with Typora, which I have worked with for a long time, also with a constant stream of continuing improvements, and which I quite like indeed -- for Markdown especially, though it can be used without this as Zettlr can. It's just a great tool for writing (and being able to directly use) all journalings and notes.
The Zettelkasten idea: I've just time to have a moment for this right now, but:
- There's a vid which has an amusing intro, and goes into the background, and then how software can get involved.
- it's here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Tst3- ... e=youtu.be , and that is the Zettlr author presenting.
- in it, you'll find an example of just what kind of thinking is necessary, though there are many other manners for it, to actually write each part of a Scrivener, a Zettlr, or any other of the tools you use.
- in short, this is an exemplary demonstration for why things take time, and thus why we should be grateful to have the results along line as each becomes strong and useful: the Beta, or the ongoing development of Zettlr or Typora, which is the same thing...
I was also very intrigued to see Luhmann name come up, and yes, it was as remembered -- taking me back to a Germanic Swiss decade of life...and there is a lot of history and culture in this little film's surround, but especially, a smile... I hope you find it when you listen to this fellow, across cultural distinctiveness.
My take at the moment: Luhmann's Zettel-memory system intrigues, but today, we have computers that can search. I can just write my notes, copious as they are, in text or markdown notes, saving them only slightly organized on five or so topic folders just to keep things a little straight. Then I can use even Microsoft's built-in Windows search to find any that mention what's turned out to be the interest at the moment. It's a bit of magic, considering things done before.
And then...what our invisible parts of mind can do, be a _concept_, or _feeling_, or _impression_ -addressable, discoverable memory; that is really the deep capability we have for what we write. We can 'find things' experienced or otherwise noted; they just float up after we've been involved with expression of something for a bit, and they make that expression interesting and full of flow: which is 'writing', isn't it, at it's best.
I think that is the basic capability, this and the ability to move portions around, which Scrivener excels at. Search provides us the ability to expand once we've lighted on something, remember more, and search works equally with Scrivener (because of its RTF files), as well as text or markdown notes, writeable by such nice tools as Typora or Zettlr.
Zettlr might have an advantage in being open-free, where Typora is free but keeps its hat on. In the end, I wouldn't mind paying writer-pricing for Typora, tightly budgeted as I am, and that's what should be donated on Zettlr's asked-for support anyway. Scrivener is already extreme value for its own writer-pricing. So we are all-around fortunate here, not so?
