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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Comparative Review of Writers' Tools (INITIAL DRAFT)
« Last post by wraith808 on May 20, 2018, 09:21 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)
Perhaps I should have expanded, but I think that the rest of that statement puts into perspective what I mean by 'editing tool'. Not like something like smartedit or prowritingaid, but a text editor, so I don't find it an unusual characterization, because that's what it is. But as I said... I think. And in my experience, I think that the project management is a task that for writing professionally, I've found that I need integrated. I have to do several self referential checks within the software, so when I'm not just writing a self-contained work, which I've never had the opportunity to do since I've started doing it professionally, being able to easily reference the other work within that project is something that I need. Not in an external tool, but right there. This might not be the same for all, but for me, that's what I think and I need. Which is the way that all of us reference these things, I think- even the creators in many cases. A plain text editor won't cut it for me in most cases.
on this one. Google also deprecates services (I thought they had deprecated bookmarks at one time), so not about to get burned by another company to go for a company that burns products.