Comments on: DevonThink For Writing Your Next Book

By: minikperi

minikperi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:43:47 +0000

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By: Paul Tucker

Paul Tucker — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:56:27 +0000

Is there an integrated Mac authoring (as in writing a novel) tool?
Can Appleworks be modified into such a creature?
If not, what inexpensive softare do you recommend?

By: brett

brett — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:43:44 +0000

I use DevonNote to clip info from emails and webpages when I’m researching my journalistic stories. It’s a lower-power (and less expensive) version of DevonThink that has most of latter’s features and may be enough for many users.
I started using Scrivener a few months ago to write longer stories and it’s just a dream for journalists who have to manage a lot of info and also structure longer stories. You might be able to get by just using Scrivener and the Finder for individual projects but Devon is quite handy if you need to quickly find and correlate info accumulated over the years for various projects. Both are definitely worth a try for any writer.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:21:59 +0000

Devon allows you to create wikinotes as well (like VoodooPad). While VoodooPad is great notetaking software it doesn’t have the end power of something like Devon or Yojimbo. And as MiserCharlie suggests I throw all of my blog postings into Devon as well.

By: A few links at Pensieri di un lunatico minore

A few links at Pensieri di un lunatico minore — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:25:04 +0000

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By: tobias s buckell

tobias s buckell — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:49:52 +0000

I love DevonThink, so much so they even had an interview with me in one of their newsletters as I use to organize all sorts of stuff related to the books I write. It’s very versatile.

Scrivener, I think, is the best tool for a novelist I’ve seen yet. I’m writing my third novel in it (I used MacJournal to write my second, and TextEdit my first) and it’s very useful.

CopyWrite is another pretty good book writing/organizing tool, and WriteRoom as well. It’s a good time to be on the mac if you’re interested in that kind of stuff.

By: mistercharlie

mistercharlie — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:57:59 +0000

Well, this is interesting…
I’m just in the final phases of kicking off a new blog. It seems to me that DevonThink might be just the place to store all the entries. That way there will always be an easy method to find older but relevant stuff. Also a nice place to store any other info for the future.

By: Dan Moren

Dan Moren — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:05:51 +0000

I use separate applications for writing and note-taking on my novel. For writing I'm still using AppleWorks *winces*. But for note-taking, I use Gus Mueller's excellent VoodooPad; it's like having a wiki on your computer. Which is great when you can't remember what color hair a character has, or whether you explained something differently on page 7 and page 307.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:11:17 +0000

I use Devon nonstop. It is always running in the background, and if I am turning on my computer I launch it immediately. As a teacher it has become the most valuable application I own. While I use another program to write the final draft (Mellel), Devon hold all of my work and research. If I decide to cut or edit something out of the draft, I make sure Devon keeps a copy for later use. I use it to summarize articles others have written, or that I have written to get a fresh perspective. I hold all of the syllabuses in it (both mine and others) as well as potential assignments. . . .The uses are unlimited. I have done some longer write-ups of how I use the program at Academhack.