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Mellel auto titles not updating3/20/2023 ![]() it would be as easy as falling off a log." I think the biggest issue that I have read with Scrivener - though I will agree that it too won't suit everyone - is for academics in the humanities who need to use long footnotes as well as endnotes for bibliographic references.īut this is a Nisus forum and I am chary of going on about Scrivener here. docs written in Chinese, and that was the deal-breaker for me.īut I must admit, that often when I read a post like Timotheus' I think to myself, "But if you were doing the writing in Scrivener, moving that stuff around, doing whatever it is you're wanting to do, needing to have two documents open side by side. I also appreciate the fact that Mellel use their own text engine means that, in programming terms, some things can apparently be done more easily than when based on a souped-up version of the Apple text engine - floating text-boxes come to mind … On the other hand, that proprietary text engine means that it can't (couldn't?) import. As I've said on this or other threads, I did use Mellel for a long time and tried hard to convince myself that I liked and got on well with the interface, but the truth is I was never totally at ease in it. I would say I'm as evangelical over Scrivener as Scott is over Nisus. I had to learn a whole new, but ultimately smarter and more intuitive and much more productive, workflow, and ultimately it is my workflow and no one elses - so your mileage, it should go without saying, may vary.Īnd if I get evangelical over Nisus sometimes, well.that's just puppy love. That was the hardest part of moving from Word for me, which does a lot of things and none of them are actually implemented in a meaningful and well-thought out way (2008 has only made this more clear). They all do their things and they do them well and they all play their parts at specific times of the writing process - Scrivener when I want to make a mess, Nisus when I want to clean it up and get it into its final format. 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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