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Gotta love GDPR eh.
-Stephen66515 (May 24, 2018, 05:30 PM)
No. Not at all.-wraith808 (May 24, 2018, 05:40 PM)
As a law, it's pretty decent - applying it to a business....pain in the ass-Stephen66515 (May 24, 2018, 09:55 PM)
I took it from The Atomic Scribbler BlogThere are two key folders inside the project folder: Documents and .atomic. The Documents folder contains a series of documents in Word and RTF formats, each with a number for a name (12.docx, 87.rtf, etc.). When you create a new scene or note, a document is created in this folder to store the contents of that scene. And the best part is, as the formats Atomic uses (Word and RTF) are so common, you can open any of these small documents with Word or any other word processor. Your work is never stored in a proprietary format and can always be recovered — even if Atomic Scribbler is not on the scene.If it's not that, I have no idea why it feels a little slower than I see with other similar programs. If that's something you don't see, then it must presumably be a system variable.-Dormouse (May 22, 2018, 04:01 AM)
Idle offtopic wish: That the at-sign did actually signal you in some way on this forum... it would definitely be a help to bring people into a conversation or signal the person.-wraith808 (May 21, 2018, 04:09 PM)
It's become somewhat of a habit for me to do that, due to using a Discourse forum at work. (but I still hate Discourse and prefer SMF)
Maybe mouser can add a plugin for mentions?-app103 (May 21, 2018, 04:40 PM)
I have now done the table for Atomic Scribbler. I found it attractive, but it felt like a light program, and I'm not sure how it would stand up to a lengthy or heavy piece of work; this impression may be false. Some irritations, and felt a little slow.
I'm not sure about future development. It has just been made free with only the SmartEdit add-on providing an income for the developer. He'd said that 92% of his SmartEdit sales came from the Word version and has just released SmartEdit Pro just for Word. There has to be a question of how much future development the income from Atomic Scribbler and its add-on will justify. The add-on for Atomic Scribbler is fairly basic, but a lot of self published books would have benefited from it.-Dormouse (May 21, 2018, 02:30 PM)
I submit the different sections and get redlining separate.I think that you've found that this is a structure that works best for you. There may be other ways, but this suits your thinking the best and makes you more productive.
Having them as one document with sections would not be tenable. At least for me.
And submitting the one doc for redlines and keeping the comments relevant- not sure he would have appreciated that. He seemed to appreciate having them segregated a lot more.-wraith808 (May 21, 2018, 10:43 AM)
That gives you a very specific set of needs; other people may find other ways of achieving the same result.-Dormouse (May 21, 2018, 11:19 AM)
I did a 1500 word submission for one project, and still broke it up into multiple files- one for each scene in the document. Having to have one long document is very hard to work with in my experience.I understand the allure of a single program. But can be done separately.
I'd rather have one interface where I can go from document to document in the same session.
And then there's the problem of formats... my client decided to have us submit over google docs, and google docs added in extra spaces, and completely messed up Word formatting, when it states that it imports Word documents.
But yeah, having something that has references to all of the documents that make up a larger document that can be opened and edited independently has become key to me, since I started writing semi-professionally.-wraith808 (May 20, 2018, 09:39 PM)
You can do outlining separately. Even in a sticky or a mindmap, depending on your need. In a small, always on top, window.
Then you can write in anything. Even WriteMonkey will allow easy switching between sections.
What you lose is the automatic re-ordering when you change your outline.
I would always separate formatting from writing even if I intend to use the same program for both. The formatting stage is when I will stick all the files together as one document.
The issue of references and research is a little more complex.The first is much simpler.
- Have they all be garnered for this particular piece of work?
- Will you use them later?
- Have they been selected from a much larger repository?
But for any, you could just use OneNote (or other equivalent) and have a section or page for you project and have them available on that. And then do your writing on whatever you fancy.
You will note that I am separating the concept of a chunk of the work, from external references. I regard them differently, you may not need to.-Dormouse (May 21, 2018, 03:18 AM)
OneNote
Available in nearly all corporates that use Word.-Dormouse (May 21, 2018, 02:59 AM)
I don't know that I can comment on the advantages of a separate project manager without knowing the precise use you have in mind. If there is an integrated program that does it well for you, then it seems unlikely that a separate program will have any advantages.-Dormouse (May 20, 2018, 06:30 PM)
There are many advantages of integrated.
And many advantages of separate.-Dormouse (May 20, 2018, 11:34 AM)
I think of writemonkey more as a strict editing tool rather than a writer's tool. I use it alongside my writing tools- I love the distraction free writing, and the ability to play music while you're there. But managing projects and such, I find that it falls flat.-wraith808 (May 18, 2018, 11:26 AM)
Calling WriteMonkey an "editing tool" rather than a "writer's tool" is an unusual characterisation. You seem to be using the term "editing" in an idiosyncratic way.
To me WriteMonkey is very much a "writer's tool", as it focuses on one of the most important aspects of writing: the act of writing itself.
Once I'd written my text in WriteMonkey, then I might take it to MS Word or some other word processor to edit it, format it, and typeset it.
But even you say that you use WM for writing primarily, so maybe by "editing" you mean 'writing'.
As for lack of project management capability (presumably of writing projects), I don't see that as an absolute requirement for a writing software. I also have Scrivener, which has all the bells and whistles, but I find it too distracting and much prefer to do my writing in WriteMonkey.
P.S. What I'm trying to say is that there are myriad other task and project management tools out there that can be used to manage a writing project, so they don't necessarily need to be built into specialist writing software.-dr_andus (May 20, 2018, 06:18 AM)
What I had noticed was that the ability to unlock and use some newly-updated/developed nifty MS Office functionality had sometimes been predicated on the user migrating from earlier versions of Windows to Windows 10 and/or OneDrive.
In other words, there was (apparently deliberately) no backwards compatibility, but it did not threaten to invalidate existing licences. I had thought that this was probably nothing more than an incentive to urge users to the newer OS, but still, it did seem to smack of coercion and making existing/old licences seem to be obsolete.-IainB (May 19, 2018, 11:55 AM)
But managing projects and such, I find that it falls flat.Project management is coming in the next release of the v3 beta-wraith808 (May 18, 2018, 11:26 AM)-Dormouse (May 18, 2018, 02:57 PM)
I don't think that you lose access to documents or files.
I also don't think that the Office365 price is excessive.
In the UK I can buy a 5 computer licence for between £50 and £60 from Amazon which can last 13 months (by switching to automatic renewal which you then turn off to enter your new annual code). And that also gives you 1TB storage. I can remember the prices that Bill Gates charged.-Dormouse (May 18, 2018, 08:03 AM)
