A Scrivener story

Scrivener Scrivener for macOS
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Hi,

I would like to add my feedback.
I am not a writer but a Storyteller and player for pen & paper role-playing games. In the past 15 years I did this always with minimal writing and preparation. But I had always the preparation problem.
I was mostly unprepared and I had hard time to make my notes with word or other tools.

I tried various tools, but I had the biggest success with scrivener. It is fun to use and I write today a lot more then I did wrote in the 15 years before. This is the biggest success an application can achieve from my point of view.

I especially like the easy way to print the Data I need. I can pick the stuff for printing based on the demand I have. This gives me tha ability to manage the story in one document but deliver the story as requested / needed by the play.

The only bad thing about scrivener I found so far is the usability of the tables. I do not need more functionality scrivener offers. However the handling does need a lots of love. Sadly I need a way to structure some data on a page, and the classic approach is a table. If someone has an alternate Idea that works within scrivener I am happy to try.

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Tables are one of those things that we get for “free” by programming on a Mac, you just flip the right switches and all of those palettes and the basic UI in the editor are magically available. The unfortunate side-effect of this is that Apple isn’t a big fan of making their stuff easily extensible. In short, the best way to improve tables is to start all over, from scratch. And that’s a lot of work just getting back to the spot where they are right now, let alone going beyond. What specifically are you looking for, though? Maybe it’s already there and I can help you spot it.

Glad to hear the software is helping you out, otherwise!

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For tables, I’d suggest just setting up tab stops. You have to manually tab over from one column to the next, but the result is pretty neat. I believe you can set up tabs that align the columns along the left, right, or even center. It’s not as flexible as a Word or HTML table, but if you keep your editor width wider than the tabbed data, then it’ll stay aligned nicely.