12/20/2023 0 Comments Writeroom blockerThe information was initially compiled by the web community on an open Google spreadsheet. This is a feature comparison of text editors on iOS. It's a hassle but it kind of works and is my most productive method at the moment.Welcome to iTextEditors The iOS Text Editor roundup Later, I'll use Beyond Compare (wonderful bit of software) on XP on the netbook to sync between the its drive and the memory stick that I work directly to from the Mac and finally paste the results into Scrivener. I'm on my netbook now, so when I finish this blog post I'm going to Alt-Tab back to DarkRoom to continue writing. I use different ones in different situations. I'm serious about the suggestion of integration with DarkRoom, that could really work. I want yWriter to be accessibly cross-platform and have a fullscreen editor.I want Writer's Cafe to be simpler to use and have a fullscreen editor that is actually fullscreen and has sane scene/chapter organisation.I *want* to use Scrivener on my netbook (maybe I should Hackintosh it).Celtx (with online publishing features - ).Dragging and dropping chapter and scene cards in the Outline view causes random other chapters to appear when all you are trying to do is re-arrange what exists without creating new stuff! Undoubtedly this is due to user ignorance - but - as a software developer who specialises in User Interaction and usability, I find it reveals the shot gun feature addition that has happened with this software to the significant detriment of usability.The way in which chapters and scenes are added is beyond confusing - sometimes you are trying to add a new scene and a chapter appears, sometimes vice versa.So you are left unable to scroll down to the work you wish to edit. and the scrollbars never work properly on small screens like a netbook. If you conceal your Storylines (the plot line kind of view) completely - there's no way of getting it back without resetting the entire display to its defaults (losing all of your fonts and layout etc).It's a seriously feature rich application AND is 100% cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and can be run from a USB key. Writer's Cafe nearly satisfies all three of my basic writing software wants. On to my biggest love/hate relationship within writing software. I should nod to the fact that using WriteRoom for iPhone + a user can write remotely on their iPhone and then sync it back to Scrivener on their Mac later. I'm likely to be using either Windows or Linux - usually on my netbook (these days I'm very happily tapping away on my Samsung NC10). Yes I use a Mac when I'm writing in my little recording studio at home but the rest of the time the bus, sitting in a cafe, out at my parent's house, anywhere not home!. However it has one huge problem for me in that it's Mac only. I'll start with Scrivener because it's damn good - in fact it fulfils all of the three desires above. So what's good and what are the problems? A fullscreen, no distractions text editor - for which I can globally (and quickly) set the default font.A storyboard usually represented by some kind of card story board or cork board.A part/chapter/scene breakdown - in some sort of tree structure.How do you prefer to visualise what you are writing? We all have our own preferred ways of working whether it is a free flow, outlineless brain dump through to the opposite a novel broken into an outline with parts, chapters and scenes - possibly to the extremes of phase drafting. In my own selfish case we're talking short story and novel construction - so my praise and gripes are based on that assumption about use. Let's specify some usage criteria first of all - people have many usages of this kind of software, which can alter their preferences script writing, screenplays, novels, academic and business technical are just a couple of usage examples. I pose the following question about software designed to assist in the writing process - is it possible to find the perfect writing companion, or is it too subjective and hence an unachievable dream? So let's leave song writing and potential writer's block for now and at least document the results of my software frustration. I guess I should cut myself at least a little slack, given that we are flat out at work preparing for the launch of OpSource Cloud. I had an epiphany point during the week when I tweeted (with fear) that perhaps I was spending so much time assessing the various software packages as a means of not actually getting down to it and working on my writing. and what about all this nonsense to do with writing software recently? It's strange because I wrote a new song this week something that usually does not coincide with a writing dry spell. This happens from time to time and - while being a bit annoying - it's usually temporary. Passionless is the only word I can really use to describe how I've felt about writing this week.
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