I recently described Scrivener as a tool that helps me write everything but the book I’m working on. I have character and location sketches, piles of research, even pieces of narrative I thought good enough to jot down and keep there. I think it’s at around 3,000 words of just stuff that I need for the novel (reminder, short stories are frequently just 3-5k words).
I would very much like Scriv to be able to kick my butt, kind of like an iCal reminder. I’d like to be able to “set a timer based on time or progress” per individual files. Like a 7-day reminder on the character sketch I need for the talkshow host, a per-every-day-unless-i’ve-put-400-words-in reminder on my draft, and so on. I’m unfortunately not sure of the API one would use that.
thanks,
alex