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Author - an interesting app for composing scholarly work
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Posted by Paul Korm
Jun 1, 2019 at 12:57 PM
Interesting. I’ve tried this out. It requires shifting back and forth from keyboard to mouse / trackpad, which is a drag on rapid entry or brainstorming. Dynamic view cannot be used to build an outline—one has to do mouse clicks to add text from dynamic view to the end of a document, which in itself is a bit meh. Of course there is no hierarchy. I’ve used Author from time to time and feel it is about 90% very good but always a bit off target.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Author has added a “dynamic view” feature, which is similar to Scapple,
>but which is bound to your document. I haven’t really tried this out
>yet, but if it works like is presented in the video (second video down
>on the website below) it could be astonishingly useful… I haven’t seen
>any other app do this.
>
>http://www.liquid.info/author.html
>
>Steve Z.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 1, 2019 at 01:22 PM
From my experience with Author, your assessment is right on target. The developer has fantastic ideas and ambition for this app, but there is always something that doesn’t quite work right or in an intuitive way. I hold out hope.
Paul Korm wrote:
Interesting. I’ve tried this out. It requires shifting back and forth
>from keyboard to mouse / trackpad, which is a drag on rapid entry or
>brainstorming. Dynamic view cannot be used to build an outline—one
>has to do mouse clicks to add text from dynamic view to the end of a
>document, which in itself is a bit meh. Of course there is no
>hierarchy. I’ve used Author from time to time and feel it is about 90%
>very good but always a bit off target.
>
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Author has added a “dynamic view” feature, which is similar to Scapple,
>>but which is bound to your document. I haven’t really tried this out
>>yet, but if it works like is presented in the video (second video down
>>on the website below) it could be astonishingly useful… I haven’t
>seen
>>any other app do this.
>>
>>http://www.liquid.info/author.html
>>
>>Steve Z.
Posted by jsamlarose
Jun 2, 2021 at 10:34 AM
Found this today: https://www.augmentedtext.info/ …which appears to be an update on the original Author app posted in this thread? Haven’t tested it myself yet, but it seems to have developed since the liquid.info days, and the concept map looks really interesting… No updated iOS app however, far as I can see…
Posted by Amontillado
Jun 3, 2021 at 11:49 AM
It seems in general there are a lot of things word processors could do, but don’t. It’s like word processor developers see the horror of Word’s original outline mode and stick with formatted text editing.
Scrivener and similar apps are notable exceptions.
Posted by bigspud
Jan 18, 2024 at 07:06 AM
You know, all those years ago, I had super high hopes for foldingtext, from Jesse G… He somehow divind into the rabbit-warren of node-syntax and callbacks and never came up for air on the experience..
I think I just got the experience I always dreamed would happen with Author..
Just a few days in and seriously enjoying the finer choices with some superb working tools in there.. My ‘overly’ linked writing exported to PDF outputs are just beautiful.
Just writing a vote of respect to Mr hegland.
Very nice work.