![]() ![]() None of these tools is a swiss army knife. and Keynote for stunning presentations and lectures, and Numbers for gradebooks and any low-level numerical analysis, which luckily as a qualitative researcher I rarely deal with). Together, along with Endnote, they are my toolbox (along with Pages for syllabi and anything involving complex images, media, etc. Scrivener is not for final document creation, but what it does it does so well. Scrivener takes about 15 minutes to learn and is as intuitive as NWP. This is one thing that no word processor (or even an outliner to some extent) has allowed me to do successfully, and one that I don't think they're really set up for - inevitably they force structured and linear writing on you, although to be honest, I've never used Melell's outlining features because I was one of those people who couldn't crack the interface to even get there in the first place. In addition, it has a split pane writing interface where you can work on two different parts of any fragment at once. Because of this, I have found it more agile in the beginning (and even middle) processes of writing scholarly articles than anything on the market. It also does a damned good job at managing references and other media, as I can have a full PDF of an article, its citation information from Endnote, its abstract and my own personal notes on it, and on top of this, I can import full sound recordings of interviews that I have transferred into digital format, images that I plan on using but don't know where just yet, and everything else right in the document that I'm working on and all of them are ultimately usable in a productive way. I've been using it for some complex papers I've been writing, and have found it to work nicely at just what you described - the sort of unstructured writing that requires all parts of a work to be movable. ![]() I am interested in knowing what you think of Scrivener. But, for as much critical distance as I can muster, that is why I was also sure to say that NWP is by no means perfect, which as you've seen its users can also be very vocal about in these forums. Yeah, sometimes we get a little adamant about Nisus, just as Melell users sometimes do the same for their product. ![]()
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