Write lots? Buy this.

I don’t like paying for software.

I don’t like using other people’s methods for doing stuff.

I don’t like storing files offline.

But I’ve made an exception. I’ve just bought Scrivener after using it for less than 24 hours. And that’s despite it having a 30 (non-consecutive) day trial. It’s going to revolutionise my writing of longer texts – like that Ed.D. thesis I’m almost half-way through…

So give it a try. But make sure you watch the introductory video first so you can do it some justice. :-)



Posted: 08.07.2010

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  • Islam Mohamed

    Thanks for the post Doug. I’m starting my EdD this summer and I was looking for a tool and guess i will go for
    scrivener. They’ve already produced one for windows but I may even buy a Mac Laptop and get the Mac version as the windows one still have some bugs that they are working on right now. It woud be great if you can share some of the other tools that may be useful for me to use from the beginning. Wish you all the best.

    • http://dougbelshaw.com Doug Belshaw

      Hi Islam,

      If you get a Mac, I’d definitely recommend the combination of Scrivener and
      Papers (http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/) – they work well together. :-)

      • Anonymous

        I really like Sente as a bibliographic manager, even has a really usable
        iPad client where you can read through the papers and annotate them and
        extract quotes etc to use when you are back at the computer…

        http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/

        • http://dougbelshaw.com Doug Belshaw

          Thanks Andy – Miles Berry likes Sente as well. :-)