Dr Andus
12/13/2010 4:58 pm
Mitchell Kastner wrote:
I also downloaded and took a quick look at the beta. The overall concept looks interesting but I also found the outlining process cumbersome. I needed to develop some quick notes and organise them hierarchically, and I found it difficult to move the topics around and up and down. Eventually I gave up and switched to Natara Bonsai, where outlining is a breeze. I'm also a Whizfolders Organizer user, and so I would be curious to know how the Mac version measures up to Whizfolders. I do like the various functions that enable you to have an easy overview of the overall project in Scrivener, however quick and easy hierarchical outlining is a must for me.
Oh, and I absolutely agree, some kind of an integration with EndNote or similar academic referencing software would be a must. That would be a huge market for this sort of software to tap into. I would venture to say that the vast majority of people writing out there on a daily basis are probably university students and academics.
Ditto.
I don't know how you can do academic writing in the Windows beta; there is no
tool for inserting citation references. Can't editing html web page. Barely can cut
and paste. Outlining very clumsy. Cannot insert child or sibling levels. Keyword UHD
does not work. Cool feature about creating parent, child, and sibling key words but
when I dropped group into keyword pane either nothing showed or only one showed and not
group as advertised. Yes I know it is a beta and I know that I have scratched only
surface, but you would figure that at a minimum a word processor that advertises
itself as being useable for academic writing does not make citations easy although I
think in the Mac version there is a bibliographic utility.
I also downloaded and took a quick look at the beta. The overall concept looks interesting but I also found the outlining process cumbersome. I needed to develop some quick notes and organise them hierarchically, and I found it difficult to move the topics around and up and down. Eventually I gave up and switched to Natara Bonsai, where outlining is a breeze. I'm also a Whizfolders Organizer user, and so I would be curious to know how the Mac version measures up to Whizfolders. I do like the various functions that enable you to have an easy overview of the overall project in Scrivener, however quick and easy hierarchical outlining is a must for me.
Oh, and I absolutely agree, some kind of an integration with EndNote or similar academic referencing software would be a must. That would be a huge market for this sort of software to tap into. I would venture to say that the vast majority of people writing out there on a daily basis are probably university students and academics.