Yes!
When I was on vacation in Italy a few weeks ago I had my Asus eepc netbook with itās 1024x768 res and scrivener installed.
I did some work on it, but I wonāt be doing it again. At the end I started writing on paper again and wishing I had taken my iPad with me
Scrivener -although working fine on my netbook- wasnāt build for such a low resolution I think. With the tiny trackpad moving the mouse pointer from binder nodes, to index cards, to the text was tedious. I really wished being able to touch the screen.
On the other hand I like writing on my iPad very much, either with a bluetooth keyboard or even the touch keyboard. But ā¦ I miss the background infos, the structure, the other scenes quickly to look through. And getting it back to scrivener ā¦ too much fiddling imho.
Now that I have my beloved mba 13āā all is good, but of course I more often have my iPad with me when outside than my mba.
So, to make it short, quick and easy navigation through all essential information (binder, index-card, content, comments etc.) is most important. Usage of all the common āiPad ways of doing thingā like pinching for zoom and sliding panels is very important. And like you said, no matter where I write, it simply should be in synch.
Btw will you use iCloud? Since I bought Scrivener through your website I think this is the without-iCloud version. A synch through wifi would be nice too
Itās unlikely to support iCloud. Not only do those who bought through our website, and all our Windows users, have no access to iCloud, but iCloud isnāt really set up to handle Scrivenerās deep package-based format. Dropbox will be our focus.
I will add to what Ioa said that Scrivener for iOS will work as a standalone application - it will be a paid app so it needs to be able to stand on its own - but thereās no doubting that it will really come into its own when used as a companion to the desktop version.
As for the desktop version being used on small interfaces, actually the Mac version was originally created on a 1024x768 machine and Iāve tried to ensure it continues to scale well on small screens. The Windows version may require a little more space, Iām not sure.
Longtime Scrivener user / forum lurker, first time caller. Thanks for all the hard work you guys are putting into the iOS version of Scrivener. I canāt wait to have it on the go, and I think you guys have a good grip on what most users probably want out of a mobile app. Writing and editing are mainly what Iām doing right now, and access to all my drafts and notes would be wonderful. For now, Iām making do with exporting my manuscript as an EPUB, then reading it on my commute and highlighting / making notes for editing on the go. (Iām far enough along in my project that I can do that now-- outlining on the go involved a notebook, the paper kind, quelle horreur!)
But I always come back to Scrivener desktop, because no matter what else I try (and Iāve used Storyist, Textilus, and dozen or so other iPad apps in junction with Scriv), nothing compares to the original. I canāt even think straight in the other apps.
Soā¦ yep! Just keep doing what you guys are doing. Love your work, and Iām so obsessed with this software that I read the forums pretty much every week. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us.
yeah, mac, not windows and certainly not an eepc netbook. I hate this piece, too small for everything and slow and not at all mobile.
And my eyes may be getting worse
Love my iPad though, even though I have a mba 13 now.
If not iCloud (good) what else will you use? Please not only dropbox.
Welcome aboard, katevee! Thanks for all the kind words. It sounds as though Scrivener for iOS will do exactly as you wish. Weāre honing it in read-only mode now on the iPhone, then it will be on to getting all of the editing working without breaking, then revising the interface for iOS 7, then getting it jazzed up for the iPadā¦ Actually the iPad version is going to be like having more than one version of the iPhone version running but linked together in neat ways. Itās hard to explain but is going to be very cool (I hope so anyway!).
Gods, yes! I had to ditch MacJournal, as the syncing was just painful. Seamless syncing via DropBox is certainly possible - YNAB (You Need a Budget) does it very nicely, with transactions just appearing automatically on, say, your Mac a few minutes after theyāre added on the phone.
At the moment I use Notebooks to sync manually with Scrivener, and it can be a bit painful (Iāve lost work by syncing devices in the wrong order!), so I really appreciate any efforts that L&L make to avoid this issue.
Also, on the plus side, if Scrivener for iOS wonāt be out for a while yet, that gives me no reason yet to āupgradeā to iOS 7
Oh manā¦ I am so moist with anticipation. The ambient humidity around me isā¦ Unspeakable.
The only thing I really REALLY want is the brilliant scrivenings feature. Just looooooove that in the desktop version. Write like an idiot and then slice, dice and organize after.
You guys are keeping that right? :[]
Anywayā¦ As you can seeā¦ Iām quite ready. Just say the word and I will be spamming the app storeās buy button!
Just booted up iMacā¦ feeling likeāyeuuurrrkkk!!". Read your post, jin, and havenāt stopped chuckling to myself. [size=150]:-))[/size] Thanks for the giggles, pal.
Take care
Vic
You should beta out the iPhone/iPod Touch version of it once you get editing working so we can break, er, test it for you. I use my iPod Touch 5 and a BT keyboard for maybe 20%-30% of my drafting as is, so I could probably pound 15-20 thousand word worth through test versions every month, and Iām sure thereās a few folk around here with far more ambition who wouldnāt mind helping ā¦ just a thought ;-p
Just to add my tuppence worth. All I want is a programme that can access my Scrivener project(s) and allow my to add/edit and create new stuff. Totally suitable that it works with Dropbox as thatās how I work now, between my PC and laptop.
Itās not possible to do a public beta of iOS software, without asking everyone to jailbreak their devices, because that would essentially amount to distributing software outside of the App Store, and we wouldnāt want to have that going on now, would we.
I emphatically implore you to include the name generator function to the iOS app. There are times I find myself writing by hand in a notebook and need a name on the fly while Iām away from the computer. Another suggestion might be a random town name generator and a business name generator for those who struggle with naming things in our stories.
Just FYI (no pressure to do a beta test before youāre ready) there is no reason to jailbreak to do beta tests on iOS, there are several methods including a few easy-to-use/ free services that take almost all the work out of the process like Test Flight https://testflightapp.com/ (best known and well regarded) or Hockey Kit http://hockeykit.net/ (open source).
Just joined - primarily because Iām REALLY looking forward to iOS versions of Scrivener and Scapple. I use them both all the time on my MacBook, but could use them even more if they worked on the iPad as well. So, waiting, hoping, praying ā¦
