I’ve Written *1 MILLION* Words in Scrivener - Here’s My Review 

Thanks for your comment. I’m going to try your approach.

It's not the easiest when you just start, but I found that it scales with how complex you want it to be. It can behave much like an rtx file or it can scale to handle complex multipart novels + research.

NovelPads okay. It still lacks features many other writing SaaS online have. Though it is one of the cheaper ones.

When i graduate and get a job am going to revisit my novels with obsidian.

Obsidian is very smooth, but it doesn’t compare to Obsidian. The feature set is just very different. Scrivener is like a full office suite, whereas Obsidian is an extremely powerful organizational tool. Really they complement each other perfectly for that reason. But for just organization, plotting, and writing both are sufficient. Obsidian does shine with plugins, but Scrivener has more features built in Natively. Obsidian can grow to a totally different beast with plugins, and that’s definitely something unique that Obsidian does well.

@ghost-user559 Well said.

@@gnostie Yeah I find that I wander to many different apps and get hyper involved with each one for a while. It’s always good to expand your toolbox. Even tried Doom Emacs and Vim. But ironically most writing happens on pen and paper, and Apple Notes on my mobile devices. Obsidian and Scrivener are both very complex, sometimes intimidating and equally powerful. I feel that most ideas are better off starting simply in a notebook with no added tools. Getting Obsidian or Scrivener involved means serious business, and it can feel a bit like cutting bread with a chainsaw when I’m just trying to brainstorm a simple idea. Once you have a stack of notes, I think Obsidian and Scrivener suddenly become essential. But it’s definitely overwhelming for me initially to see an empty file in either program with the number of tools and functionality they offer.

@@ghost-user559 Same here. Different tools for different stages of the process. Body and first brain centred in the beginning, then software tools once the thinking gets beyond a certain point. Then back to the body and the notebook again for the next round.

Literature and Latte absolutely have a Windows version of Scrivener. They had it for the last 5 years

@@mauriceloggins5313 I'm sorry I wasn't more clear in my comment. I started by sayi9ng I "do use Scrivener," and then say I've been using PCs since 1987. I meant I've been using PCs EXCLUSIVELY since 1987. So of course I know there is a Windows version that's been available for five years now. HOWEVER, did YOU know that I had to wait NINE YEARS for that version, and that that version came out two years after the Apple store had VERSION THREE, which took FOUR MORE YEARS to appear for Windows? THAT is what I was complaining about.

That’s true in a way, but it is also not entirely accurate. The mobile version is definitely meant to be used with the desktop version, because you need to own the desktop version to create templates. And yes its mainly iOS. But that’s true for most Apps that cater to creative careers. Affinity has always had better support for Apple, and Scrivener is the same. Same with many creative apps. But it is portable, its just not complete without having the desktop version too.

@ghost-user559 Which means I'm still correct & you're just cherry-picking.

@@KevenPirritano No. Actually you said it was not fully portable? That’s ridiculous. Laptops have the full version and are “portable devices”. iOS and iPad *Also* have a mobile version. You can literally carry three versions with you at any point in time. Therefore it is “fully portable” and you are wrong.

@@ghost-user559 No again cherry picking. You're just twisting what I said to fit your narrative. The original comment was in regard to cells.

@@KevenPirritano How is it a software company’s problem that you don’t consider a laptop, which is a “portable computer” to be “portable”? How is that twisted when thats just reading what you said? Why do you want to talk down on a program just because you don’t consider a laptop “portable”, like I literally cannot comprehend what you are on about.

LaTeX is awesome for output. For input it's… fine. Ulysses + LaTeX output though is amazing. That said, I think Scrivener can be just as good and is a bit easier in terms of a learning curve, so it's more approachable to people.