I think having only one workspace that has the binder, two pages, and also maybe the metadata column crammed into it is about as crap as can be. If people think I am being rude, I am being restrained!!! We live in an age of WINDOWS and TABS and Scrivener would infinitely be improved by allowing unlimited openings of each. I want to open HUNDREDS of pages at a time, and not have them all squished into ONE STUPID WORKSPACE.
I have split them into smaller books, that is what is causing the problem!!! I need to keep them all as one document because they are interrelated, interconnected, are not drawing from any extant style or form, and share the same huge dictionary.
But thanks all the same. At least L&L have a forum to come vent spleen on!!! I use supposedly people-friendly Firefox and used to use Firefox Notes for all my notes, and then one day Firefox auto updated to Quantum and ALL MY NOTES VANISHED!!! No warning, no help, no care. Just change and fxxx you, loyal user! Luckily they were stored as plain text files⊠Donât get me started on Google EarthâŠ!!!
But if you have a forum like this, it is sad when it becomes filled with fanboys like RuffPub. L&L should take heed of people like me, and shoo off the fanboys.
I do not follow the software markets deliberately because they change with the wind and the business strategies of its huge megacorporations are frankly disturbing at times. Tools should be reliable and practical and masterable, and not prone to changing arbitrarily to maximise profits and market dominance. It is lucky the IT industry does not make building tools and logistics equipment otherwise weâd all be living in caves eating the cockroaches!
Software distinctions exist until they donât, much the same as once upon a time there were iPods and iPhones, then hey-presto! We have smart phones that do everything and even more yet to come!
I spend my days getting my head around medieval political organisations, ancient philosophical concepts, nuances of ancient languages, the craziness of dynastic power and state-building, the disputes of churchmen, and the madness of alchemists and gnostics, and plotting out petty lordships and great empires. Oh, and being a good husband to my dear wife. There is little time left for much else! I want a tool that works, not a botch job limited by someone elseâs lack of foresight. The IT industry is the worst in the world for giving a crap about its users, I laugh when I try to imagine a hammer or forklift truck being made by them!
There is only Google Earth that ticks all required boxes. There are other programs, but they have all sorts of limitations. Google Earth is possibly the worst piece of software engineering I use / have ever experienced. It has two âSaveâ processes, neither of which work properly or reliably. It dumped its greatest resource, all the Panoramio users, and replaced them with an awful attempt at commercial exploitation. It moves around like a drunk driver on ice now, and is almost impossible now to use for the aerial archaeology I in part use it for. It is, in short, a simple idea gone horribly wrong!
Sadly it is also, for me at least, one of the most entertaining things ever invented!
True, it doesnât have a âwizardâ for someone to do this (it doesnât have a wizard for anything, though, not its style) yet we have several posters in the forums who do use Scrivener to manage one or more series of connected works. There are a couple of different strategies for doing so, and thereâs no âproperâ way to do it â both have pros and cons, and expect the users to balance those for themselves. Thatâs more of the Scrivener mindset â give you the tools, not the kit.
KB has a vision on the kind of program he wants to write. Why should he take feedback from people who arenât on board with that vision? Thatâs exactly HOW you get software like Office, etc. â trying to be everything to everyone.
Thereâs no shame in trying Scrivener and deciding, âThis isnât the program for me.â
To get the most important thing out of the way. This is a user forum, the purpose of which is to discuss Scrivener and Scapple, therefore ANY discussion of either does concern every member, therefore ME. If you donât like being responded to, donât come here complaining and demanding Keith & co turn it into something that is not Scrivener.
I hope you felt good, listing your supposed skills and achievements, such as they are. ⊠the fragility of ego. I could list my achievements, which make yours look a bit underwhelming, but wonât subject the other members to a p.ssing contest.
L&L should take heed of the thousands who use it daily to achieve when they make suggestions that fit with the ownerâs vision. They are the ones who will continue to use it and recommend it, as opposed to âŠ
Edited to take out a few things probably not best to pout on this forum
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I remember when I had several thousand hand-written pages to type up. Before I did so, I wrote very well without software. Words can even go on rocks, if it suits. I chose Scrivener. I whined. Itâs not this, not that, entirely missing how useful it is. No program meets every need, nor are they even necessary at all. Yet, they sure are handy when put to use. I learned not to be so difficult with others, here and elsewhere, when I grasped (I grasped) that a hammer is a hammer and not a scalpel, and that I shouldnât speak to people as if they are my servants because they made a thing I use.
I muse about these things about myself to myself, as I sometimes do in places like these.
I defy you to name a single modern logistics organization that doesnât have an extensive library of software tools. Or a single commercially manufactured product that doesnât use software at some point in its supply chain.
you have thousands of new words already. how are you keeping track of them at them moment. presumably they,re not just in your head. my advice â to anyone â is to focus on writing the best work that you can within the constraints of what the universe can provide you at the moment. my specific advice to you would be to remember that readers won,t have whatever tool you have to keep track of all these words.
Stop pretending that comment smarted because you are some sort of programming wizard. For a man who likes to write - I mean copy and paste from Google Translate - in many different languages, your grasp of English is rather lacking. Stick to playing the lyre and forlornly wandering the Underworld.
Clearly you didnât take a moment to digest the words from @kewms - a member of the L&L staff, about forum etiquette.
Sorry, but your replies are descending to childish and beyond.
Understand, L&L are not going to burn the house down and re-write 3 versions of the program on the back of your endless insults on the program and their capabilities.
I am in no way connected with L&L so have no sway, but would love it if youâd just wander off and find some mythical program that meets your needs.
