Alexander Deliyannis
3/2/2014 8:41 am
Dr Andus wrote:
I think that Scrivener excels at the overview level, whereas Word is better for the detail (including formatting). SENSE is a sort of rare beast which facilitates continues switching between the two--but without the strong formatting / object embedding features. I can only compare it with Brainstorm. In this context, SENSE has much more powerful overview/navigation but not clones.
I don't think that it is easy to integrate SENSE in an existing workflow like yours. Building a workflow around SENSE from scratch would probably make more sense (pun not intended)--and this is not a suggestion to yourself Dr Andus. I believe that SENSE could be brilliant in an academic setting, provided it added support for footnotes/endnotes and possibly LaTex and similar stuff. However I don't do academic writing anymore so am not in the best position to judge.
Thanks for that, Alexander. The above features do sound interesting. Who
would you say the main competitors are here? MS Word? Scrivener? I'm
intrigued by Sense, but somehow I haven't managed to figure out where
I'd fit it in within my various writing processes.
I think that Scrivener excels at the overview level, whereas Word is better for the detail (including formatting). SENSE is a sort of rare beast which facilitates continues switching between the two--but without the strong formatting / object embedding features. I can only compare it with Brainstorm. In this context, SENSE has much more powerful overview/navigation but not clones.
I don't think that it is easy to integrate SENSE in an existing workflow like yours. Building a workflow around SENSE from scratch would probably make more sense (pun not intended)--and this is not a suggestion to yourself Dr Andus. I believe that SENSE could be brilliant in an academic setting, provided it added support for footnotes/endnotes and possibly LaTex and similar stuff. However I don't do academic writing anymore so am not in the best position to judge.