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#Writing with #bibisco

I've been playing around with #bibisco for project Deadly Pearls. My interest was piqued because it looks almost like an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for authors, with everything you (might) need to write a story.

I'll keep this post updated while I'm still figuring things out while writing my #cozyMystery

My likes

• Word count and tag tracking works well, and it gives me nice statistics for what it tracks.
• Built-in mind maps and timelines.
• The guided approach to writing
  • Clean sections for story preparation and general plot ideas.
  • Purposeful chapter creation aka "What is the reason this chapter exists in your story?

My dislikes

• The editor. Seriously. It's not fun to write in. For me, it's the lack of options to customise it. The fonts available are not the ones I would choose and (similar to #Plottr) I can't use the fonts I have installed on my system.
• UX...
  • The overall UX is good, but there are SO many things where you have to click a "more" button in the bottom right corner of the screen to change the name of a scene (which is in the top left corner).
    • (Update) *You can double click on the name and then edit the title. I would still prefer to have some sort of (visual) indication that this is possible.

Things I would like to see

• QoL additions to the word count tracking, like updated daily word count goals based on my actual pace. It's only updated manually when I go back to the writing goal settings and hit 'calculate' again to get an updated daily word count goal.