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Isaac Lyman

Wow, this is awesome feedback! Thanks Aurel. If you'd like to be an advisor to the project over the long term, consider this your invitation.

  • I don't know how writers prefer to organize in-chapter outlines. I went with my gut on that one, but I appreciate you pointing out that I should do some specific user testing on that one.
  • Exporting outlines is definitely something I've thought about. I'll add it to the Trello board.
  • "Word over time" is meant to track your usage of a specific word (say, "beeswax") in each of your chapters. If you use it a ton in Chapter 1 and not at all in Chapter 2, you'll see a \ graph.
  • I definitely need to fix the "Most Common Words" to not track dashes. Haha. Thanks.
  • I think centering the writing section is a good idea. I'll put that on the roadmap.
  • Full mode = distraction-free, right? Definitely something I'd like to add in the future.
  • Two things I'd appreciate more explanation about: typography (I don't know the first thing about it, other than what I see in printed books), and your second to last para ("I want to add outlines on..."). I'm not sure what you mean.

Thanks again for chiming in.

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aurel kurtula • Edited

Thanks for the invitation, count me in.

The two things are both nit-picking really!

Typography

I would not be able to work on that editor for too long. The text doesn't have enough line hight and and I don't like the type - it hurts my eyes. The font style in this editor (here at dev.to) is easier to read then the fond style in your editor (screenshot bellow).

However, I could be wrong because, if I remember correctly, both evernote and scivener (definitely scivener) use similar font to your editor. I think is crappy - that's the only reason I don't use evernote. But, considering so many people use those apps, I must be wrong - even though, honestly if I was a writer, at some point I would stop using you otherwise great app.

Basically, if your code editor use that font-family, would you be able to code all day?

As for "I want to add outlines on..."

I can't see it being a big "must have" but if I my memory is correct, this is the only feature I loved in scrivner. Basically, topics within topics.

My chapter has three topics (as you called them) "Events, Scenes, Conversations". I have 5 scenes in my head. At the moment I can write them just as I wrote this comment, and have headings "scene a", "scene b" ... . What if I have the ability to create each scene as a sub topic? The end result is 5 seperate scenes in the scenes topic.

This is exactly what I had in mind:

(Incase you're wondering, the book is called "The amazing Bob" - ha)

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Isaac Lyman

Aurel - can we continue this conversation by Twitter or other media? I have some questions.

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aurel kurtula

Sure, twitter I guess.