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Originally Posted by marovada
Use ywSynch for ywriter: http://babbacom.com/ywSynch/
On Android you can also use Dropsync to sync folders between cloud and device using Dropbox |
THANKS!!
BTW, I broke down yesterday and installed Scrivener. I hate to move away from YWriter, I really do, but at some point in this whole, "it's time for me to take a few minutes a day and do something for myself, instead of just working 60-80 hours/week" thing, and this discussion, I realized that I'd just become entirely too disorganized. Having three (plus a very complete outline in Word) different programs--LSBXE, YW, and Snowflake Pro (plus Word for outlining), here and there and everywhere....it's just not adding to my productivity.
I thought about it a long while, and decided that worst case, I can slap my scenes into YW, and use the timelining feature there. (I have one story in particular that has flashbacks, etc., to a much earlier time period, and I need to make sure that I track everybody hither and yon.) Or, I'll look into Aeon, but what I like about YW is that I can drag-drop the scenes, if needed, and update the scene times, and kablammo, it does the heavy lifting for me. I also like some of Simon's other features that are hardly ever mentioned--ability to annotate a scene action/reaction, track objects used in scenes, etc. (Yes: I've taken the entire Scriv. tutorial, I know I can tag things, but...Simon's program
is very thorough and complete. People simply don't "get" it because it's not FLASHY or "pretty" in the way that Scrivener or LSB are.)
I'm going to give Scrivener a go, but I'll miss the simple elegance of YW, if I end up sticking with Scrivener. (I admit, it does look like I can easily emulate the SP character-development process by using Scrivener "templates" for that.) I admit that one of the things that I have struggled with, as a "power-user" in Word, is that in YW, I missed the ability, in creating scenes for outlining, to use multi-tiered visual mechanisms (effectively, HTML headers, for all intents and purposes), to indicate things like Acts, Parts, Scenes, etc. If you're an OCD outliner like I am, having things organized in a way in which you can indicate "this is the disaster in Act II," visibly, is very helpful.
{shrug}, offered FWIW, for any others that come along and are thinking about all of this.
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