Strive for perfection but be content with success. Unknown Almost nine years ago I wrote a posting titled: “Scrivener — A perfect program for dissertation writing” (it still covers accurately what makes Scrivener perfect, BTW). I was in the middle of my dissertation writing and Scrivener just made it … well, not suck that much. It’s an app written by an author for authors, and it shows. The good way. Nine years later I still use Scrivener as often as I can (damn you, collaborators!), especially when I want to write something serious. The ease of use is just … incredible. It lets you focus on your writing, keeping the focus on the content, not the formatting (actually, I hide the format bar and write in Courier Regular 16, with bold and italics if something really must stand out). But as good as Scrivener is, there is always something you might want to change. The nice thing about Scrivener is the amount of options you have. Go through the Preferences (Scrivener > Preferences on the Mac), there is a wealth of things to configure. One thing that did bug me was the composition mode. It’s a kind of full-screen writing [...]
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