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Lazer, thanks for you comment. From my limited time with the software so far, Scrivener seems to handle the metadata aspect of writing much more clearly than the others - many have similar capabilities, but few worked it in as smoothly (at least to the eye of my limited experience).
VydorScope, I saw your mention of trying to use a wiki on another thread, it was one of the things that inspired me to start this thread. I would like to hear how you get on with that.
I hadn't thought about using the outline feature inside *Office, that would make it easier to move things around when you need to as well (moving row content around inside my table gets annoying) ... I must try that out.
After looking at all the other software I realised that one thing I didn't want to leave behind was OpenOffice (or LibreOffice if I decide to move to that one day) - all the templates, styles, and extensive dictionary I've built up for my story. In the last few days I've spent some of my writing time writing code instead of story; trying to work out if I can achieve something like what I've seen in that other software, but put together the way I want it, and controlling OpenOffice from my own program (which I've finally worked out how to do) so that all my scenes and notes and text snippets could still be maintained there. It may all come to nothing yet, not sure I have the time it would take to make it work well, and I still want some of my time left for writing, but I do have proof of concept now.
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