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   Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) (suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 14:18:37 JST Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)

   Any #writers here? Are you fans of Scrivener, or Ulysses, or perhaps Obsidian Notes? Looking around for a writing system that will be future-proof. Also love the idea of using Markdown because that’s what my blogs all use now. #writing #writersofmastodon

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     Laura Lis Scott (lls@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 14:18:34 JST Laura Lis Scott

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     • Clive Thompson

     @clive @suzannealdrich A Scrivener file is actually a file bundle of text files, plus other files containing the organizing metadata (binders, tags, styles, etc). The individual “documents” are saved as rtf files.

     If you lose the app or whatever, you can rename the project file’s .scriv suffix to .zip and unzip that file, and within the resulting folders all your documents are there in rtf format.

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 14:18:36 JST Clive Thompson

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     @suzannealdrich

     I use scrivener!

     I’m not sure it’s future proof though. You can (and I do) export projects to rtf files to save in case the software and/or the firm goes poof … but it’s arguably not as portable as markdown with Obsdian

     But! The reason I stick with Scrivener is I’m a non fiction writer — while researching a book I might take 2 million words of notes, in thousands of note-files. While writing, speedy search is crucial …

     … and Scrivener’s search is LIGHTNING fast

     Nitin Pai repeated this.