SCRIVENER for windows

Yes, it is coming. It is one of my all times fav Apple writing apps. And it is coming to windows... right now it is in the open beta.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforwindows/

Yes I have loaded it on my Nettie... it runs well... no, it is not as polished as it's mac counterpart... but hey, it is a good tool.

I'll check it out on google later.

An outlining tool, a writing tool, a research tool... it works as all of them.

I wouldn't mind paying $40.00 for a full operating program.

and when they finally iron it, first quarter of this year, I hope... that is about the price point. I got it running the full version... on my Mac... I paid for the upgrade from 1.7 to 2.0 recently.

I throw down brainstormed, unorganized idea notes and then reorganize them into a coherent (well, hopefully coherent) document.
Then I go back and write out each thought in more detail.
It's the best writing tool I've found.

I use linux, I write in plain text using markdown, and I output my text to any format using pandoc.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc

I can create clean very well formatted documents using any computer's text editor and I never have to figure out the local word processing software.

Lately Open Office or Microsoft Word make me feel like :wtf: every time I have to use them. They are optimized for producing fancy 8 1/2" by 11" paper printouts, not the reflowable text of web browsers, ebooks, and iphones. The html code they produce is hideous and confuses simple electronic readers.

Markdown looks like this:


It's all easy. There's nothing to interrupt your stream of thought as you are writing.

(Note: The % notation is not native to the original markdown code, but pandoc uses it to make epub compatible code and such, just in case you run my sample through Daring fireball's markdown dingus.)

I don't usually hang out in the Writing Group so I don't know if you guys have already talked about this.

When you compile it.

I have to figure out how to import MM into it.

Saving something in a simple markup language (like markdown) and then reloading it is a great way to filter out all the cruft some word processors leave, while leaving important stuff like headings and italics unchanged.

Some sites (like smashwords Nuclear Method...) suggest you save as text, reload, and then save again in their preferred document format. This destroys everything. Dammit, I like my italics and I don't want to dig through all my text to resurrect them, even if they really should be dead.

I found this on using MM with Scrivner:

http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/using_multimarkdown_with_scriv