Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener

Re:Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener by themadturk on Sunday November 27, 2022 @12:46AM (#33760728)

Scrivener is great...I've used it on Mac, iOS and PC. But the proprietary file format and requirement to use Dropbox for syncing killed it for me. I could live with the proprietary format since it works on every platform I use, but I use Dropbox for literally nothing else anymore.

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Re:Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener by messe on Sunday November 27, 2022 @06:18AM (#33762169)

To be fair, the proprietary format is very transparent. It's a folder with a bunch of (IMO very readable and self-explanatory) XML with your writing stored as a RTF files further down the folder hierarchy.

If I ever wanted to abandon scrivener, I think I could whip up a python script to convert it to a folder of markdown or LaTeX files per section pretty quickly. I have no concerns about losing my data to bit rot or the software no longer functioning on future computers.

As for DropBox, yeah... that sucks; it's the only thing I use DropBox for nowadays too.

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Re:Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener by themadturk on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:21PM (#33765779)

Ah, I'd actually forgotten the RTF files at the bottom of the folder hierarchy.

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