MadaboutDana
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Scapple
10/9/2013
Oh, and I've just discovered Scapple can also export OPML files (including a separate note field, which OmniOutliner among others can interpret accurately).
Other export options include: image, PDF, ...
Scapple
10/9/2013
Having played with Scapple a bit since buying it, I can confirm it's a truly gorgeous writing tool. It's intelligently written - it's got a bundle of little features that are optimised for fast drafti...
Scapple
10/9/2013
Yes, I've been playing with the beta for Windows for a while. It's lovely. Very simple, pretty quick. Like a kind of combination of outliner and mindmapping tool. It's rapidly becoming my favourite dr...
ConnectedText v6 is out
10/4/2013
Ah... if I may delicately insert another off-topic suggestion here: anybody thinking of using Excel for writing would be much better advised to use LibreOffice Calc or OpenOffice Sheet, which both hav...
I think I've understood the problem, and while I can't pretend to be able to offer "the ultimate" solution, I've found the following approach useful.
I use the Windows version of Notebooks (by Alfons...
Bad Wolf Software is holding an online prize draw (US readers: that's like a raffle) featuring 10 free copies of SmartEdit.
More details at: http://www.smart-edit.com/smartedit-competition.html
The ...
As does AM-Notebook (although it's not being as assiduously developed as InfoQube) ;-)
It bloody does, too! At least, it does in German. I shall now have to play with it in Russian, Japanese et al.
Fantastic! Thanks for posting that up!
Splendid fellow! It'll be great if it works. I'll let you know...
Writing Software for Writers
9/23/2013
Hm - the list is slightly irritating in that it only sporadically mentions which OS the various editors are designed for. Most of them are in fact iOS or OS/X apps (not an issue in itself, but followi...
Writing Software for Writers
9/23/2013
True, WriteMonkey has things that Texts doesn't (and vice versa, of course); depends on what you mean by "distraction-free". If you used Texts full-screen you'd have no distractions - it doesn't even ...
Writing Software for Writers
9/23/2013
The other nice thing about Texts is that it allows you to open multiple windows very easily (SDI, not MDI), so you can have multiple ideas for stuff open simultaneously (for example, I'm currently dra...
Writing Software for Writers
9/22/2013
I'd also add the very nice "Texts" (currently at 50% discount), which is a rich-text editor that actually produces Markdown files. There are desktop clients for Mac and Windows, as well as an iOS clie...
I do love OneNote, but have become somewhat chary of its OCR because of the linguistic limitations. Just try loading it up with lots of documents in "foreign" (in my case mainly French and German) and...
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
And I've just discovered Headspace on iOS - the very epitome of a three-dimensional outliner. Oh lord, I feel a CRIMP coming on!
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
It's also reminded me that Literature & Latte's 'Scapple' is available for Windows, albeit as a beta only. Okay, okay, so it's a kind of mindmapping tool. But for writers!
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
Mind you, I notice that Tree Outliner can actually swap between a horizontal and a single outline view (http://www.topoftree.jp/images/3_VersionsBrowser.png). That's really rather neat.
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
You're right, looking at it again I can see there are issues in terms of screen real-estate. In this sense, Gingko is actually using an even more exciting model; their columnar system is relatively ef...
Horizontal outlining
9/13/2013
Inspired by Gingko - which I think is a brilliant start (the nice bunnies have told me that since there's only one actual developer, it may take a while before a mobile app is available) - I've been l...
Text-based workflow
9/9/2013
Ah, a fellow hopeful. Yup, similar folders on my iPad. I'm just in the process of trying to get rid of dozens of apps I don't actually use, but can hardly bear to part from... Pitiful, really.
Looks interesting (grrrr - no, not a CRIMPer moment, please, really can't afford any more!). I use Snap2PDF for OCRing photos of docs, which also works pretty well.
Text-based workflow
9/8/2013
Yes, that's right - it's a bit old now, and in fact as I was writing about it I was reminded of another two-pane app that's actually almost identical, also supports PDF files (and indeed other file ty...
Text-based workflow
9/8/2013
And in reply to Alexander - yes, Editorial is amazing. What's especially impressive is that you can use it as a perfectly standard Markdown-capable text editor if you want to, but if you really want t...
Text-based workflow
9/8/2013
That, alas, is how Apple makes all that lovely money - the mayfly-like lifespan of their products nowadays! Actually, that's not fair to their notebooks and desktops, but iPads are notoriously short-l...
Fired by all this enthusiasm, I've finally shelled out for iThoughts - very nice, I must say. But I was even more intrigued to find that a nice workflow has been written for exporting formatted Markdo...