Oh no, did I inadvertently lead L&L to divulge more juicy details? Oops. 
Okay, no yaml. Just yummy. 
For those who are eager to try this public beta. What is the timeframe for it to be dropped? Is there any expected rollout timeframe?
Thank you.
I think it was mentioned somewhere a couple of weeks to get things sorted.
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Thank you. I read it would be next year for Windows users. I missed the rest. Thank you for clarifying.
Got to hope that L&L have not shot themselves in the foot over this as they did with the announcement of Scrivener for iOS which took years to be released as a product. And the unguarded mention in some blog post on updated features to Scrivener to accommodate the Windows version 3 of the program of an Android version; something that Andoird users have been clamouring for but has never seen the light of day beyond that comment.
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Time will tell.
In regards to Scrivener for iOS I personally think it is such a difficult task to combine the visual and functionality complexity with the limiting factor intrinsic to smaller screens, that I would have simply let uses modify each document -much like a custom text editor would.
I admit I rarely use the iOS app, but the option is there.
I expect big improvements going forward.
Probably some of the feeling behind the new app is exactly to bridge the gap between functionality and complexity (for people that find Scrivener 3 a burden to learn).
Having said that, all companies learn from their endeavours and challenges.
L&L products have not disappointed.
I am quite hopeful for this one too.
Vince
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That said when KB took it upon himself to create the iOS version it was done in a few months.
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I mean the only main two issues are the UI and the sync with the iCloud, where I am forced to use Dropbox -and even so it is quite slow.
I think this will be fixed in the next big upgrade if scrivener for macOS. Nothing that can be done about how the complex files are synced across devices.
I don’t know how Ulysses does this so well but they are superior on that front.
Using TextBundle. I wouldn’t call it “cheating”, but it’s basically more like working with a single file / archive as far as the cloud is concerned.
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That’s true, but unfair to the coders who had worked on it before. He wasn’t starting with a blank sheet of paper.
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That’s what the Sync with External Folder feature does, FWIW.
We have a small but significant number of iOS-only users who are very happy that we have been able to implement features like the Corkboard on that platform.
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(I removed a post here which seemed more argumentative than I’d intended. Wasn’t how I wanted to come across, my apologies, and I blame typing quickly on a phone in a parking lot for my lack of forethought. I mean, that’s probably not the reason, but a man needs his excuses, so allow me the self-soothing )
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TL;DR: Please don’t argue with other forum members on our behalf.
We appreciate the support, but it really isn’t necessary. We (and @reepicheep) do have a long and not entirely positive history of overly ambitious timelines. A fair amount of skepticism is indeed warranted.
For exactly that reason, we’re handling things a bit differently this time, but of course no one outside of L&L has any way of knowing that until the product actually drops.
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Whoops, ok, sorry. That wasn’t exactly my intent but that’s certainly on me.
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Well no he wasn’t because KB has intimate knowledge of how Scrivener for macOS works. After first contractor had to drop out for health reasons I suggested that with the similarities of the Apple products and the MVC paradigm which Objective-C promotes that KB would be the best person to create the iOS version. It was two years later, IIRC, after another contractor failed to produce the goods that he finally took up the challenge.
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Vim is the bestest!
I’ve been in IT since 1994, professionally since 1997. I used vim for everything. Honestly, still do as far as programming … who needs a full blown IDE? 
I used vim and LaTex and pdflatex for all my tech documentation. I had started it in Word, but it couldn’t handle all the embedded images. So I switched over to LaTeX. The cool thing was that the documentation source was written and maintained directly on the Sun server.
Oh the nostalgia!
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I just tried to sign up for beta on the new app and got the message that you already have enough. Please keep my name in consideration should you need more (I’ve had some experiencing beta-testing email apps, so not unfamiliar territory). And even though I’ve been a Scrivener user since yonks, the new app may be more my speed.
My proposal for the new app’s name: Scrivvle.