Love it!!! Love it!!! A couple of requests

Arrrggh!!! Yre a card arent y!! A Card!!! AHHHHH HA HA HAAAAA aahem ahem! So thats it then, eh? Sorted.

While you’re at it, can you add the ability to have Scrivener make my coffee for me? :stuck_out_tongue:

I hope our yowling did not cause you too much grief. I shall suffer in silence with my printer jams, trying hard not to “hear” you saying, “I told you so,” in the echoing void of my mind.

Thank you!

The funny thing is, with some X10 home automation equipment, you probably could make it so that Scrivener triggered your coffee maker when compiling with MMD. The only problem is, by that point what you would really want is to have your robot pour a glass of scotch.

Ha, next item on my development to-do list:

Yay for squeaky wheels…er, yowlers!

i wrote my last novel with scrivener (yes, published) and it was fun. however, there is one thing i would suggest: a sophisticated search tool, that allows you to find “double entries”.

when you work with a lot of text, you also copy and paste a lot. sometimes, you paste twice by mistake creating redundancies. spell-check won’t find that. you have to read and eliminate by hand.

1.) how about an alarm: “hey, there is a double passage/string of 18 identical words (phrase or more) in your text. did you mean to?” yes-no-find-replace

2.) what if scrivener was able to detect strings of words and count them and give stats like:
you have used the expression “he said sadly” 329 times in this document --> find-replace.
you could default how many words in a string make sense, you could find “favourite words” that appear too often.

So, there’s probably a market niché for a producer of USB-controlled scotch pouring machines. A nice name would be “Your Personal Highlander” (YPH). Or, if Apple jumps on this idea, “iBooze”.

Well, this at least you can already do: View>Statistics>Text Statistics will show word frequency in a document or (with Edit Scrivenings) selected documents.

Not sure what all the fuss is about; for years now, a number of cheap printers have easily printed single index cards. Merlin Mann even did a series of posts about them way back at the dawn of productivity porn. My current Canon mp560 does a sterling job. So I for one am grateful people yowled about this.
Thanks NotKevin.

I think the ‘no’ answer on this was a bit hasty. No Scrivener app for iPhone, no, but there a third-party ways to deal – and Scrivener has special facilities for working with some of them. I understand the the eminent 2.0 version has some extended import/export/sync abilities. Check out section 10 of the over IRS of new stuff in 2.0 on the following page:

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/?p=133

(The typing and aggressive word replacement errors in the above will make clear why I won’t be doing any serious writing on my iPhone – well, unless I have my bluetooth keyboard with me!)