Thanks all for the thoughtful comments and for the kind words about Scrivener’s relative advantages (and for the insights into where you think Ulysses has the advantage).
Some random comments:
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Apps such as Ulysses have done a lot, I think, to show the advantages of a simple writing environment. It’s much easier to keep the writing UI clean when you don’t have to have all of the many formatting tools of rich text readily available. But I’ve never liked working with Markdown, and prefer to see formatting in the editor over asterisks. I think there is a way of getting the best of both worlds, though, with a mostly styles-driven text system…
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I do understand that syncing is one of the major issues for Scrivener. Fixing that would require a ground-up rewrite of Scrivener, which of course would also be an opportunity to rethink a lot of things.
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Just because we’ve been a little quiet on the update front over the past year or so, doesn’t mean that there’s not a lot of investment and work going on behind the scenes. But with Scrivener 3 not yet out on Windows, it’s difficult for us to talk about future plans beyond that.
Thanks!
All the best,
Keith