![]() You may find it interesting to read some more relevant posts from the blog here. So don’t worry, Windows users, we have no plans of leaving you unable to sync!" I did find this on the L&L blog: " When the iOS version is released, there will be simultaneous updates for both Scrivener for Mac and Windows that provide sync features. although it turns out that the same person developing the Mac version is doing the iOS version - so it may not be that simple. I imagine you can expect the iOS version to also trail behind the Mac version. The Windows development is quite separate to the Mac development - though, apparently, the project files are compatible across platforms. Scrivener was originally developed for Mac, the Windows only started when the product became popular so it's been a long time catching up. The Windows version of Scrivener has always (and I expect will always) trailed behind the Mac version. Kumabjorn, I am not a Scrivener user or expert, but - based on what I do know or have read - I make the following observations: You can't beat what it does for you, scene-by-scene, IMHO. STILL liking good old YWriter for the final writing, though. A nice feature of PS is that you can shift it to "Power Access," which puts a skinny horizontal bar at the top of the screen, while you're working in something else (like Word).you can navigate around inside Power Structure, to find the scene notes you have for the scene, character stuff, plot points-basically, it's a tiny strip that allows you to access/see everything you've done in PS, as writing prompts or whatever. ![]() IF BB6 actually works, I'd personally lean more toward it and/or PS, plus a writing tool of some type-whether it's Word, Scrivener or YWriter (or Pages, or Wordperfect, etc.) for the final ms. The tools that I seem to gravitate toward are definitely outlining and structure tools, over what to me seem to be more word-processing tools. But at the moment, I'm still leaning toward Power Structure, plus (to a now-lesser-extent) Snowflake Pro (character development portion) to YWriter for the final, actual writing. Yes, the other things-tagging, etc.,-are very nice. Vis-a-vis Scrivener-I still find that while it's a perfectly nice program, most of what people really like about it, the outline view on the left, is identical to what you get in Document Pane view in Word. It now has some type of weirdo software glitch, and because they don't really have 24/7 support-or even the usual support (no forums, no nuzzing), I'll now have to wait until Monday to try to get an answer. It has some very ODD software conventions-it purportedly saves constantly, so if you try to save-like you're accustomed to-it closes the damn program when it does. The BB6 software ain't cheap (with the genre add-in, basically, you're looking at $200USD). I tried to figure out what was making it glitchy on Win8, and thus tried to see what would pop up in compatibility-mode troubleshooting, and it showed not as Win7 compatible, but WinXP compatible-which means it's closer to 10 years in age, and not upgraded. It looks to be a very comprehensive, smart piece of software, but it's obviously crappily maintained. Wish that BB6 had something REMOTELY as decent. It's a nice tutorial for Scrivener, no argument. ![]() My speed is better than it was but this has been a very steep learning curve for me. ![]() You don't know what you don't know and I had to believe people when they said this software would be useful. Not knowing anything about this type of software I was very grateful for it. I have never come across a tutorial like it either.
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