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I'm thinking of looking at yWriter, WriteItNow, RightNote and Ginkgo in my next little run.-Dormouse (May 27, 2018, 04:51 AM)
Tech tip: When crafting (html) tables, getting empty cells to show properly, the standard way of 'filling' them is to use (non-breaking space) as the content, instead of the, imho rather ugly and disruptive, dot/period.I'm using the BBCode here and it doesn't seem to work in that-Ath (May 27, 2018, 04:18 AM)
I agree that it's ugly and disruptive.
They'll all go when I finish because the cells will be filled.-Dormouse (May 27, 2018, 04:27 AM)
Voice activated TV's and "electronic assistants" (like Alexa etc.) have been caught recording everything and uploading "telemetry".-Stoic Joker (May 10, 2018, 03:56 PM)
It's not even decent as a law.It has been the law for 2 years already, it's just that it is to be enforced as per today, but most countries don't have enough government workforce available to check, let alone enforce, it properly...-wraith808 (May 24, 2018, 10:05 PM)-Ath (May 25, 2018, 02:52 PM)
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)
