[GlenBarrington]

I tried Quoll Writer based on the contents of this thread, and I like it very much. It's quite intuitive and based on the same basic hierarchical database model that practically all the Authoring Software titles, and most note taking software use. I also downloaded the equally free "WriteWay" and the free trial of Scrivener. I tried a couple of others too, but these three seemed the most useful to me.

Write Way and Scrivener both do more than Quoll Writer (but not by much), and I DO like how Scrivener's typewriter mode keeps the line on which I am working in the middle of the screen. Write Way seems to be a more direct work alike of Scrivener than Quoll Writer, but that is more of a similar skin issue since all three use essentially the same sort of engine, and the user 'skin', aside, do things pretty much the same way.

I think I'm going to settle on Quoll Writer. It's free, and appears to be currently and actively supported. I find it a tad bit more intuitive than Scrivener in spite of the interactive tutorial Scrivener offers.

The Scrivener binder area is packed with info, perhaps more info than I want or need. The Quoll Writer area that is equivalent to the Binder, is simpler, and offers less info as to the hierarchy of the data. But I realize that I don't care about that level of hierarchy so long as the data I want is offered up when I want it.

Writeway seems to be. . . Not abandonware, exactly, since the author seems proud of his creation and dedicated to keeping the promotional website functional. But he makes it very clear that Writeway is a dead project as far as he is concerned. I don't like the fact that there isn't an easy way to deal with locations. Which is important in my mind. (don't recall about Scrivener)

I'm pretty pleased with Quoll Writer overall, my 'authoring' efforts are far better organized and easier to deal with than when using just Microsoft Office; and am grateful to the OP for letting us know about it.