Look at Scrivner for writing. Its its the best on OSX and has a Windows version too I believe.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php JD On 9 Aug 2012, at 06:54, Lisa Stroyan <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not clear to me what you are looking for. You say it's perfect, but then > you say it can't cover writing tasks. If you are talking about organizing the > written material, no, I would say that is not a good fit for MLO. > > For organizing my writing itself, I really like yWriter ( > http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html ). It has limited support for building > the book though, if I recall. It may have been added; I've not looked in a > while. Some people use Evernote, but I love the "object oriented" nature of > yWriter. Each scene can have attached notes, characters, description, and > various other attributes (I believe it's similar to Scrivener on Mac but > free). It has various basic reports. > > If you are talking about organizing the tasks related to writing, I'd be > interested to hear what MLO features you find missing. I really could use to > think about my writing process more as I haven't actually been doing it. > > MLO is powerful enough that a lot of things can be done with the existing > features, but as a writer I'd be happy to help lobby for features that could > extend it in this direction, and the features don't have to be specific to > writing. > > Lisa > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:08 AM, John Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > As a writer, MLO is perfect. And sadly, I can see the MLO features are not > covering writing tasks, building a book, and so on, so I don't want to waste > my 10 votes or other users on something which not up for discussion. Had I > the money to buy the company or at least a division to develop MLO for > writers, not only would it be a money-maker, it would make writing > organization and time saved a whole lot easier. Oh well, such is life, any > ideas I am open to work-arounds, as long it isn't longer to do than the tasks > itself. > > Thanks for reading. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/nHmBWLfJmU4J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > > > > -- > Lisa > > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
