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This looks interesting. #Neo

https://youtu.be/_K-ExOiEv40

It would probably really resonate with people looking for less distraction while writing, and pantsers.

Over #Scrivener and #YWriter

https://hughhowey.com/neo/

Okay, finally, something marginally helpful with #Apple Intelligence writing tools in #iPadOS 27. Formerly, I turned Apple Intelligence off in 26 because it would often and distractingly complete (in shadow type) next words, finish sentences, and sometimes paragraphs with crazy crap it hallucinated. I don't want AI to replace me as a #writer. It's not writing for me even though Apple Intelligence gets automatically enabled in the update process (but maybe auto-complete remained turned off?). The blue underlines that do show up flagging realistic grammar oddities over 50% of the time, catching my typical typos without distracting me. I'm happy it catches in / if / is mistypings. So long as you don't mind the blue underlines, it's all totally optional. You don't need to take suggestions.

I like the interface, all touch driven or mouse driven on my iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard trackpad. See the little video.

BTW, I was writing a treatment in #Scrivener. The tool I'm demonstrating is thanks to the OS, not the editor.

#BoostingIsSharing

#AppleIntelligence #WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #writing

#Scrivener Good News re #iOS 27.

The new iOS update fixes the iPhone app bug preventing the display of the formatting palette. See image for verification. Find works properly, too. Found a minor transparency issue in the toolbar that does not affect its functionality. Phew.

#BoostingIsSharing

#apple #iOS27 #literatureAndLatte

@nickrauchen @cstross @j2bryson @newtontalk btw, I am a #scrivener addict. Have written at leat half my novels on my iPad then transferred the output to my #linux desktop for final inclusion. (&yes, scrivener for windows mostly works on linux. There are a couple essoteric shortcut things that are broken but the devs seem in firm denial that writers use linux…)

I've just been informed that #Microsoft is discontinuing support for the Office 2021 student plan I bought a one-time purchase of that just contains Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Even though I graduated nearly a decade ago, it's all I need really.

I have zero interest in purchasing an individual subscription for the latest version of Office. I hate subscriptions and avoid them as much as possible. Plus why bother when I only use Word & Excel?

Now I'm using #Scrivener more for my writing lately and other personal writing projects on Word I think I can just easily convert them to #Proton docs and save #Google for docs I share with family. I haven't been successful at convincing my family to use Proton yet.

Windows and Microsoft are convenient but they're also greedy, typical Big Tech.

Hint: It's not Scrivener & you can disable it.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scrivener-and-ai-why-do-i-see-ai-prompts-in-my-scrivener-projects-on-mac

#writing #scrivener

#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 11 - What's a part of your process you'd give free advertising to?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I LOVE #Scrivener and fuck MS Word very much. In an era where Microsoft will hold your documents hostage to blackmail you into extending your cloud storage subscription, buy Scrivener once and own it forever. You know, like the good old days.

Great program too, much more useful for a long-form writer especially than Word.

#scrivener users: Has anyone revisited a project and found that random updated files are empty?

I've discovered I have three such files in that state in one project synced between Mac, iPad, and iPhone—but I have auto backups and mobile syncs, so content is recoverable, though maybe not the last edit.

In my case, each empty file has a last mobile sync of Aug 22, 2026 at 12:40 PM. That they all have the same snapshot time is significant, not the specific timestamp.

The first file I found empty, after the initial panic because these are chapters in a novel, I thought maybe I accidentally did a select all backspace. It could happen. I searched the backups, but could find nothing after the date stated above, so did a rollback to the mobile sync snapshot.

Last night around midnight, I found a second file. Today, suspicious, I checked every single file in the project, and found a third empty file.

Wondering if this ever happened to other writers. No doubt Scrivener devs at support will blame Dropbox. I am asking for feedback to find out if it happened to anybody else before I report it.

#writing #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #dropbox

Enhance your writing with Scrivener! Daily use sparks limitless creativity and streamlines productivity. Discover how: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9k5m5 #WritingTools #Scrivener

Today, I started the process of introducing #Proton in my life. Perhaps this for the best as I moved my email and calendar over there already. If I could convince my family to use it too then wouldn't have to do a hybrid approach with my calendars.

Then, I changed my email address to the Proton one in my Wealthsimple account. This will be a marathon, not a sprint. I will have to certainly make new accounts for ProWritingAid and Calm

Now I won't lie but I think the only Big Tech company I won't ditch completely is #Microsoft especially since having one is the only way I can play one of my favorite game series: #Halo as I used to be an Xbox gamer before I turned to PC and Halo is on PC now but still. Plus I have a license to write on #Scrivener that I don't want to lose either. There's other reasons too but I'm not going to list them all.

I like Proton so far. Sure Google is convenient but if governments keep pushing for our data and Google doesn't stand up to them, it won't be safe to use.

How to Use Scrivener (Without Anxiety)
https://zurl.co/4mKnO

#amwriting #amediting #writetip #writetips #writingtools #scrivener

⬆️ @vij

>> Multiculti married names send me, in a good way.

#Scrivener has a neat name generator. Great for generating fake names for influencing or otherwise 😀

Listening to Write Now with Scrivener (Episode 64: Tahmima Anam, Author of Uprising): https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com/64

Tahmima Anam's fifth novel, Uprising, is a finalist for the 2026 Orwell Prize.

#Podcast #Writing #Scrivener

There are various types of writing sessions.
Sometimes you write the words.
Sometimes you stare at the wall.
Sometimes you spend 1,5h hours shuffling virtual cards on the Scrivener's cork board.

#WritingProcess
#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting
#CreativeProcess
#Scrivener

Jag var idag år gammal när jag lärde mig att det finns en #openSource #Scrivener-klon till #Linux som heter #Manuskript. Fortfarande i beta men ändå. Jag blir lite sugen på att bidra till projektet, det hade gett mig möjligheten att fördjupa mig i #python

https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/

Getting some early morning writing done in the little park around the corner, before the heat hits again.

#amwriting #Scrivener #TomBihn

I #write #shortstories #novels and #research #textbooks

I can't use OneNote effectively anymore for technical reasons

Should I buy #scrivener ?

#writingcommunity #writerslife

@robin_wren #scrivener is like Word in that it has so very many features that you will never use them all.

@ianRobinson It is too bad that L&L has decided not to actively suppurt #linux but you can install it on linux too. Since the files travel pretty seamlessly among MacOS, iPasOS, windoze, and linux I find it easier to write with #scrivener whenever the muse or an idea hits. My biggest gripe now (which isn’t much of a gripe) is the lack of definitive file level version control.

@lazysupper I am using #scrivener fairly reliably among my iPad version, a win10 version, and #linux. There are a few annoying things like the iPabd version wanting to default to all text being bold italic but that isn’t bad.

Listening to Write Now with Scrivener (Episode 63: Lili Taylor, Actor and Birder): https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com/63

Actor Lili Taylor is an avid birder, and she has written a book about her passion, Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing.

#Podcast #Writing #Scrivener

#worldbuilding tip: Build and internal Wiki.
In my #scrivener project, I have a Wiki folder where I list out all the pertinent articles to my story complete with links. This helps to organize my sprawling #fantasy novel

While I don't use in anymore (in favor of #Scrivener), for people looking for a simple free and lightweight writing tool, I recommend checking FocusWriter out.

It has just enough customization to bring joy, but not overwhelm.
It helps you count words and meet your writing goals.
And if you like that, it can make tiny typewriter sounds at each keystroke.

https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

#WritingTools #FocusWriter #WritingSoftware #Productivity

Finally installed Scrivener on my Linux drive as i can't be bothered to reboot into Windows every time I use it. Some more annoying configurations still to be done but it works.

I also just realized that if I avoid the compiler, Scrivener is not pure evil.

#scrivener #linux

Setting up a new Mac, the former MacBook I was defrauded into buying having finally definitively crashed after years of giving trouble. To my dismay, my favourite and most-used apps don’t work on it because it doesn’t use an Intel chip - Brave, VLC… I haven’t dared to open Scrivener yet - if that doesn’t work I’m fucked; everything I’m writing & all my research is on Scrivener projects
#Mac #Scrivener #VLC

A quick bit of work this morning. Half an hour and I hit my minimum wordcount for the day. Also, a rather satisfying total number of words for this novella.

#writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #numbers #scrivener

I’ve said before that everything I’ve ever thought it would be nice to do in Scrivener has already been a feature in the app.

That record remains intact today. I was wondering if it had a feature like iA Writer that could identify adjectives so I could access whether they could be deleted without making the text being edited harder to understand.

Yes! It’s called Linguistic Focus. See https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scrivener-3-linguistic-focus

I LOVE Scrivener. It’s my favourite app ever. It’s not even close.

#Scrivener

Die populäre Erweiterung #NotebookNavigator für #Obisidian ist seit heute in der dritten Version verfügbar und bringt in Anlehnung an Apss wie #Ulysses und #Scrivener viele praktische Funktionen für das Schreiben mit.

https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/notebook-navigator

#ObsidianMD

Die Struktur beweglich halten writresscorner13.de/die-struktur... #autorinnenleben #writerslife #Scrivener #selfpublishing

Die Struktur beweglich halten

Listening to Write Now with Scrivener (Episode 62: Erica Wagner, Novelist and Literary Editor): https://podcast.scrivenerapp.com/62

Erica Wagner has written Wash, a historical novel about Washington Roebling, the man who build the Brooklyn Bridge.

#Podcast #Writing #Scrivener

3/ It took me a while to learn some of the fancier Scrivener features but now I am rocking them.

#Writing #WritingSoftware #Scrivener

If you write family stories with multiple characters whose lives interveave, this post has some useful tips whether you are a Scrivener user or not. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/compile-multiple-timelines-or-point-of-view-character-arcs-in-your-scrivener-projects #genealogy @genealogy @histodons #Scrivener @projectkin.bsky.social

Back on #MavericksForever. 😅 I just missed it. Getting #MacJournal and #Scrivener for free is a huge advantage of #retroComputing. 😊

OK. my writing app now generates an ePub. I fixed some minor formatting issues and cleaned up the code.

Next up, generating a Scivener .scrivx file. Why? Just in case I need it.

#auteureist #programming #swift #scrivener

Working on a Novella I started back in 2009-“The Clock Maker”-part parable, part children’s story. Using Scrivener to get it out of MS Word. Had about 10 chapters-(short)-but getting back into it. Has nothing to do directly with my blog. But hope to maybe someday release a chapter a week, for my “late week” post. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
#Scrivener

Introduction to Scrivener for iPad.

5-minute video: https://youtu.be/w4LdK8Cffgk

#Writing #Scrivener

Durch meinen novelWriter-Artikel haben sich einige gemeldet, die - wie ich auch - gerne das Win/Mac/iOS-Programm "Scrivener" nutzen.

Über Lutris/Wine lässt sich Scrivener ganz gut unter Linux betreiben. Auch die aktuelle Win-Version 3.1, die lt. Foren-Beiträgen stabil läuft.

Habe es mal kurz bei meinem Linux-Mint probiert - scheint gut zu funktionieren.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

@Linkshaender @steinstory

#scrivener #linux #wine #markdown