5/16/2023 0 Comments Dabble writer reviewIt seemed about time that there was a book writing app that lived up to the technology of 2020. In fact, the difficult user experience of Scrivener is one of the reasons that LivingWriter was developed. Unlike Scrivener, LivingWriter has no learning curve. At the very least you need to watch YouTube videos and read their tutorial which reads like a manuscript. There are trainings that cost thousands of dollars just to teach you how to use the features of Scrivener. LivingWriter Knows How Your Brain WorksĪnyone who’s ever used Scrivener or read a Scrivener review knows that it’s a big to-do. The first major difference between LivingWriter and Scrivener is the user experience. But there are some major differences between LivingWriter and Scrivener. We both have drag and drop chapters and subchapters, templates, virtual corkboards, dark mode, and chapter notes. Scrivener is similar to LivingWriter in terms of features. However, for those of you who can focus and do want a browser-based option, this may be exactly what you need.There are some major setbacks that you will find in any Scrivener review. It’s a great program, but other than the cloud-based, browser-based writing app, it doesn’t offer me much that Scrivener doesn’t already give me, and as I said, sometimes writing in an internet browser just doesn’t work for me and provides entirely too much opportunity for distraction. For myself, I doubt I will subscribe at the end of the month. I am not a huge fan of software-as-service, but as this app is cloud-based I will admit that the model makes sense for them. If you want something that has a cloud-based option with a desktop app, I definitely recommend it, with one caveat: It is subscription-based, at $9.99/month. It’s worked great on all three, and on different browsers, and the desktop app worked well too. Though Dabble isn’t fully tested for use with tablets, I have had no problems working with it either on my desktop, laptop, or tablet. This is, of course, a fault of the user and not the app itself. This last weekend, in order to meet my writing goals, I had to take myself completely offline just to concentrate and then copy and paste what I wrote into Dabble later. I loved being able to write on the go, but I also have occasional issues with focus and having the internet browser open to write in also meant having the internet browser open, which was, sometimes, counter-productive and no writing actually got done. It’s online (and therefore updatable anywhere) and this turned out to be both pro and con for me. The one part where Dabble didn’t work for me was, unfortunately, one of the reasons I wanted to try it out in the first place. I usually use metadata and color coding for plot threads in Scrivener, but I liked this means of sorting much better. It also has an interesting Plot Thread organizer that I like quite a bit. It is free for the month of November, so I thought I would try it out.įor anyone familiar with Scrivener, Dabble looks very similar, with separate sections for your manuscript and character/setting notes and research. I had tried out most of the apps on special offer through the NaNo website over the years except for one, Dabble, and its web app looked to be one of the easiest to use after using Scrivener for so long, PLUS, it auto-syncs your wordcount with NaNo, which I always forget to update (that, and my Goodreads read shelf). I just didn’t have an app (other than GoogleDocs) to write in and thought this would be a perfect opportunity to try a new writing app. Paired with a BlueTooth keyboard, it works well as a writing-on-the-go solution. Partially, this was because I wanted to be able to write on my tablet as it is significantly more portable than my big, heavy, elderly laptop. So, for this year’s NaNo, I decided to step out of my Scrivener comfort zone and try a new app.
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