Talk about cultural affinities. Consider this POV in the NY Times where a writer declares her farewell to Microsoft Word. Kudos to those who think ahead of what someone just might need. Used to be that choice meant reverting to a typewriter or pen and Moleskine. Not true anymore.
"Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its
self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations
(ComicSansMS?)...Our redeemer is Scrivener."
Scrivener is the independently produced word-processing program
of the aspiring novelist Keith Blount, a Londoner who taught himself code and
graphic design and marketing, just to create a software that jibes with the
way writers think--encouraging note-taking
and outlining and restructuring.
To create art, you need peace and quiet. Not only does Scrivener save
like a maniac so you needn’t bother, you also get to drop the curtain
on life’s prosaic demands with a feature that makes its users swoon:
full screen.
Our personal favorite feature: Mac OS X only (not compatible with Windows). Now how do you like how that feels?
Then, there's also the WriteRoom, the ultimate spartan writing utopia. With WriteRoom, you don’t compose on anything so
confining as paper or its facsimile. Instead, you rocket out into the
unknown, into profound solitude, and every word of yours becomes the
kind of outer-space skywriting that opens “Star Wars.” Black screen. Green letters. (Beautiful!)
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