Sorry, John, your post was stuck in the moderation queue; I was kayaking in the mountains and I think the developer is on vacation this week too. (to control spam, new members are moderated until after first post and sometimes it takes a while before we get around to changing it).
Glad you found Scrivener to be something that would work well. I'm curious what you found in it that yWriter didn't do well, perhaps you could write me off-list? lstroyan at gmail dot com. I haven't gotten to compilation yet so I might need those features though I really love yWriter. I think I did a trial version of Scrivener but don't remember what I didn't care for or if I just was being cheap since yWriter is free. Lisa On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM, John Hayes <[email protected]>wrote: > Not certain why my yesterday reply post was deleted. Nevertheless, > > WOW - Lisa and JD, I looked at both and while yWriter is okay, Scrivener > is excellent. > > As for organizing tasks, MLO is excellent, it is the inability to compile > and save as word doc essentially. > > The abilty to organize/outline in detail is critical for me as a writer, > then the wherewithal to compile all notes, research, citations, > bibiliographic references, photos, documents, text and pdfs and so on, is a > necessary organizing tool; especially for epic novels and series, as well > as scientific, journalist/columns, reference and other such technical > manuals and books. For Example, Michael Arbib's "Handbook of Brain Theory > and Neural Networks." > > Thanks again, > John > > > > On Thursday, August 9, 2012 1:43:59 AM UTC-7, Jonathan Davis wrote: > >> 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<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<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<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/nHmBWLfJmU4J> >>> . >>> To post to this group, send email to mylifeo...@googlegroups.**com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganiz...@** >>> googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >>> group/mylifeorganized?hl=en<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 mylifeo...@googlegroups.**com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganiz...@** >> googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/mylifeorganized?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en> >> . >> >> >> -- > 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/-/2JUNrHC9wOUJ. > > 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] <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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