I also like some of Simon's other features that are hardly ever mentioned-ability to annotate a scene action/reaction, track objects used in scenes, etc. (I have one story in particular that has flashbacks, etc., to a much earlier time period, and I need to make sure that I track everybody hither and yon.) Or, I'll look into Aeon, but what I like about YW is that I can drag-drop the scenes, if needed, and update the scene times, and kablammo, it does the heavy lifting for me. I thought about it a long while, and decided that worst case, I can slap my scenes into YW, and use the timelining feature there. Having three (plus a very complete outline in Word) different programs-LSBXE, YW, and Snowflake Pro (plus Word for outlining), here and there and 's just not adding to my productivity. I hate to move away from YWriter, I really do, but at some point in this whole, "it's time for me to take a few minutes a day and do something for myself, instead of just working 60-80 hours/week" thing, and this discussion, I realized that I'd just become entirely too disorganized. On Android you can also use Dropsync to sync folders between cloud and device using DropboxīTW, I broke down yesterday and installed Scrivener. In Dropbox on the server, rather than synched on the actual device, it's not saved in the way that YW "needs" to see them, in order to work. The way that YW "works" is by launching the program, which then "views" or sees the scene files in a given relative position from the databases that store them.
The relative dir structure isn't the same. That means that the files are actually still in the cloud, on the server, and not really on the laptop. The Thinkpad Yoga tablet is "seen" as a tablet/phone, rather than a laptop, so I am forced to use the Dropbox "mobile" app. I mean-if someone is OCD (ahem, like someone typing this post) and needs to outline everything to death, using a (somewhat-more) visual method is helpful, in seeing things at a glance than YWriter's scene-structure didn't explain my problem clearly. And you *can* use it as an outlining tool, although I'm a bit spoiled with using either Word or (for this limited purpose) LSBXE, both of which of course use indentation for outlining, which to me is more helpful than YWriter's lack (for that).
I know that this is one of the reasons that many folks love LSBXE/Scrivener, because they have "everything" in one place-research, outlining tools, writing "part" (for lack of a better word), images, blabbety-blab, but honestly, for writing scenes, I find YWriter to be pretty damn good. When I work on my laptop, trying to flip back and forth between LSBXE/Word/YWriter is like.fuhgeddaboudit. I do find that now that I've gotten deeper into my outlining (think more Ludlum-esque outlining than pantsing), I'm a bit frustrated with everything I have. If you have a PC, there are some timeline software programs available that are not available for the Mac, but I haven't tested them.ĭoes WIN5 do the timelining automatically, based on the scenes and characters in each? That's what YW does, and why I like it so much. StoryMill has a very, very limited timeline, which is not very functional or diverse, in my opinion. It's available for both PCs and Mac.Īeon Timeline is only available for the Mac.
You might want to look at WriteItNow 5, which does have a timeline.
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