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1. #STORYIST VS STORYMILL 2016 PRO#
2. #STORYIST VS STORYMILL 2016 SOFTWARE#
3. #STORYIST VS STORYMILL 2016 MAC#

One very important aspect of Storyist is that it can adapt to your process (unlike Scrivener). But I do remember liking Storyist better.

I don't feel competent to discuss the strengths and shortfalls of Storymill and Writer's Cafe since my experience was very limited and years ago. I used 'pusillanimous' as an adjective a gazillion times!"). I'd like to see a word and phrase frequency feature (as in "OMG. A formal timeline function is missing but can be simulated. Its outliner is good (but could be better) and its collage view (which allows you to collect story elements willy nilly) has a lot of potential depending on the user's imagination. It's templates make novel and screenplay formatting a snap.

Storyist organizes novel-related data (characters, settings, your own collections, etcetera) very well and has a place for general data (maps, PDFs, Web links, etcetera) in a freeform Notebook. If I were still in school I'd probably be using Scrivener for my term papers but not for a creative writing class. This is my main problem with Scrivener (by the way) it's great for collecting and organizing general information but I found it rather weak when it came down to actually writing novels or screenplays. I've also used other writing products (including Word and Nisus) but didn't care for their non-novel orientation. I've used Scrivener, Storymill (in 2006, back when it was called Avenir) and have played with Writer's Cafe (a little, because I was amused by the fact that I could run it from a borrowed USB drive). I too have been on that never-ending quest for the perfect writing software. Thanks in advance for any replies if it's ok to ask this here,

#STORYIST VS STORYMILL 2016 SOFTWARE#

If it's not considered good manners to mention other story writing software in this sort of comparative way on the storyist forums i apologize in advance and will just drop the topic! My initial thoughts about what these writing softwares _don't_ have in common, would be that scrivener seems very rigorously 'hierarchical structure' oriented, storymill has it's 'timeline' feature (which may not actually be as useful as it seems in a lot of cases), writer's cafe has its interesting 'storylines' method of laying out scenes in multiple threads and views, and, to my mind at least, on the initial look i've had, storyist seems the focused and 'integrated' from the point of view of producing novel manuscripts.

#STORYIST VS STORYMILL 2016 PRO#

Since it would take a considerable investment of time to evaluate all four softwares in great depth, i thought i'd start instead by asking here on the storyist forums whether anyone has comparative experience with any of the other three and storyist and could give me any honest pro and cons they might have encountered? Now, to my mind, this could be either: because storyist is the most 'obvious but shallow' in terms of its available features and methods while the other three offer different sets of 'deeper but less obvious' functions and methods that may become very useful with more commitment to learning their 'whys and wherefores', or, it could be that storyist is just more well designed in terms of being a more natural fit for my personal way of thinking and working.

I must say, having looked briefly in more detail at these four options, storyist is the one that seems the most immediately approachable from a 'just makes sense' point of view, for me at least.

so far i've settled on storyist and the other three mentioned in the title as the most interesting looking candidates.

#STORYIST VS STORYMILL 2016 MAC#

I'm currently evaluating novel writing software for the mac with the view to adopting a main new tool for current and future projects (series of novels).