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In particular, the full screen mode and the idea of being able to assign each document a label and status were lifted straight from Ulysses. Was Scrivener influenced by Ulysses? Most certainly. But those of us who don't work like that have to look elsewhere, and that is where Scrivener comes in. They have something that is beautiful and unique and a lot of users love it, and they shouldn't try to change it into something it's not for those of us who don't work like that. Good for them, because they have a very strong design philosophy and they're sticking to it. But Blue-Tec won't do it, and good for them. And I know I'm not alone, because the Blue-Tec forums get about a dozen requests a week for italics and hierarchical folders. I wanted a bit more control in that area. It's all written in bullet points and lists, but it is tremendously moving.) I like the way Salinger adds emphasis to certain syllables of dialogue, so I often do the same, and I didn't want to have to look at text that looks like this while editing: '//Per//fect,' he said, 'That's //just// what we need.' There was another killer for me, too: no hierarchical organisation in the list of documents. (For a really good example of a work that plays with formatting, incidentally, read The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done by Sandra Newman. I'm a Vonnegut fan, so I may well want to put sketches or pictures into my text. Now, I like being a little experimental in the appearance of my text. The killer for me was that Ulysses is plain text, though: no formatting whatsoever. The interface for me came to represent what I was beginning to love about OS X: simplicity and cool. When I came across Ulysses, I thought I'd found it. When I first bought my old iBook, I scoured the net for OS X writing applications, hoping to find the killer app that had eluded me on the PC.

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What would be the point? It's not like I'm ever going to make much money out of Scrivener my only motivation for creating it is that I want software that suits me (more on that later). Had Ulysses or any of the other writing software programs out there suited the way I write, you can be sure that I would never have created Scrivener. The thing about programs aimed at writers is that no one program is going to suit all writers, because all writers work in different ways. Oh, and you know what? You never hear anybody complain that Nisus Writer or Mellel are rip-offs of Microsoft Word.īut anyway. All of them have some form of list of contents next to a text view for editing a chapter or scene, and they all allow you to keep separate notes for each chunk of text. There is WriteWay Pro, WriteItNow!, NewNovelist, Liquid Story Binder and, by far the best in my opinion, RoughDraft, to name but a few.

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But I came to the Mac two years ago after being a long-time PC user, and the PC has been rife for some time with applications trying to do what Ulysses does so well: provide an organisational tool for writers. So in all fairness, if you are a long-time Mac user, you could be forgiven for thinking that Ulysses is the only software of its kind aimed specifically at writers.

It was around long before Ulysses, but it was nowhere near as sophisticated or beautiful. It had a list of documents on the left, and you clicked on one to select it and edit it in the text view on the right. If you've been on a Mac for a while, you might remember a program called Z-Write. Let me get this straight: Ulysses is a wonderful application, but it is an original implementation and not an original idea. You know what gets my goat? When people accuse Scrivener - which hasn't even reached version 1.0 yet - of being a rip-off of Ulysses.

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