The story behind getting Scrivner on iPad could probably be the subject of its own interesting novel but this week, after so many years, my beloved Scrivener found its way to the iPad and iPhone. I’m currently outlining an episode of Mac Power Users on big writing projects and we’ll be comparing and contrasting these two apps so stay tuned for more on that. While Scrivener is once again my weapon of choice for big writing projects (particularly those including research), there are still some projects for which Ulysses is the right choice. Most notably is Ulysses, which is similar to Scrivener but also different. I’ll call those my wild years.ĭuring the wild years, I started using several alternative apps that are iPad friendly. Initially, I had all sorts of bizarre workarounds where I could edit and work on my Scrivener files on iPad ranging from weird partial text syncing to VNC but none of them were really that good and as the years went by and Scrivener did not show up for iPad, I moved on. So I guess you could say I’ve been looking forward to seeing Scrivener on iOS for awhile now. (At the time, the iPad wasn’t available in the UK.) I was hoping he’d get addicted to the iPad and immediately put all effort into developing an iPad application. Within an hour of using my first iPad, I remember thinking, “Now I need Scrivener.” How badly did I want Scrivener? So much so that I acted as errand-boy for the Scrivener developer and bought an iPad (with his money) and mailed it to him. Scrivener was my original “White Whale” app for the iPad. In searching the archive, I found my first review of Scrivener on MacSparky in 2007. You can learn more at the developer’s web site. If anything, Version 3 just makes all of Scrivener’s best features more accessible to users. We covered Scrivener most recently on the Mac Power Users last year and virtually all of the merits I listed in that show remain with the new version. The app can manage a lot of resources while still giving you a useful writing environment. For instance, I write all of my complicated legal briefs, where I’ve got piles of PDFs, text snippets, images, and web pages as resource materials, in Scrivener. In my opinion, nothing can beat Scrivener for research-intensive writing. I’m thrilled to see Scrivener get such a substantial update. I’ve been using Scrivener for ten years and written several books in prior versions. While they’ve retained their power, the interface is more manageable than it used to be. The compile tools have always been powerful but also a bit cryptic.Scrivener is now also 64 bits and largely rewritten making it faster and more stable.Ī few other things that strike my fancy with this update: There is now full styles system so you can easily format text throughout your document. The new interface is cleaner and feels more modern than the older one did. New features include a complete interface overhaul. Scrivener, the remarkably good long-form writing tool, just got updated to version 3 for Mac.
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