Scrivener-like outliner for Windows?

Posted by Edwin Yip
Sep 24, 2009 at 03:06 PM

Hi John,

Your reply and the Hugh’s reply above about the instability of Word has affected the development of Writing Outliner :) Saving each revision of the document was a feature that’s being considered, but now it’s a planned feature :) Thank you all for the comments.

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Edwin Yip
All-in-one writing software for writers
http://WritingOutliner.com

JohnK wrote:
>Yes, I had the same experience myself using Word for (very) long documents. I came
>close to disaster once when I was up against a short deadline. Bizarrely, I saved the
>day by copying the file from Word for Windows to Word on the Mac, which proved much more
>stable with long documents. That was many years ago (Word 2000, I think). But I never
>use Word for long documents now.
> >But agents/publishers do often request Word
>files, so add-ins can help. The program I mentioned above, Chapter by Chapter, just
>makes it very easy to manage “projects”—effectively a set of short Word
>documents.
> >So typically, if writing a novel, you would have a file for each chapter,
>and they would be collected into a project in Chapter by Chapter, perhaps split into
>sections/acts/however you work.
> >Chapter by Chapter just makes it easy to manage,
>switch between, organise and merge the Word files, keep running word counts
>etc.
> >For those not tied to Word, programs like PageFour
>(http://www.softwareforwriting.com/) achieve the same thing in a single
>interface.