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Originally Posted by Hitch
[...]WRT Scrivener...{shrug}. To me, much of what people seem to like (like card view), I guess I just don't "get." I can do what's done in card view, pretty much, in YWriter, or in OneNote or Evernote, etc. [...]
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I am fairly ambivalent about the card view, but Scrivener offers other, much more useful, views as well.
There were two things I liked about Scrivener:
* The ability to have the whole project (research, notes, story) all presented in a useful, easy to see and access form.
* The ability to write in scenes/snippets and have it all brought together as a single view.
It's not that you cannot do these things using other tools, but Scrivener presents it all together in a cohesive, easy to use and visually appealing package. Added to that, it comes with probably the best tutorial system I've ever seen (including the various software that I've written
). It shows you not only what the product can do, but how the product is meant to be used.
(The latter makes a big difference in how effectively software can be used.)
I chose not to use it for a few reasons. High on the list was lack of support for styles. I believe this is largely the result of it using RTF rather HTML, although I have seen another product that implemented a styles mechanism using RTF (I don't now how effective it was). So I continue to use my old bits-and-pieces approach - it works for me until I can get around to writing my own solution. But I can certainly see the appeal of Scrivener; it's an impressive product.