![]() ![]() The on demand sync feature, although an in-app purchase, is recommended.ĭEVONthink to Go 2 has a well designed interface. An iOS device usually has limited storage on board, so how do you manage large databases with often big chunks of content that users want to have access to instantly? The answer is a clever on demand system that uses Bonjour and/or a cloud service like box.com to synchronise databases between DEVONthink to Go 2 and DEVONthink on the Mac. While DEVONthink to Go 2 is a richly featured app itself, it really shines when used in sync with the Pro version on the Mac.ĭEVONtechnologies encountered a serious problem when they developed DEVONthink to Go 2. While DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office need a computer, DEVONtechnologies actually developed a complete eco-system with DEVONthink to Go 2 as the iOS app that synchronises with your computer-based DEVONthink Pro databases. You can use these apps to do anything you use a freeform database for - from desk research to the atcual structuring and writing of a book. Authors need this for iPadOS.DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office are powerful, flexible freeform database management applications. : A separate issue is that there is no good formatting tool for books like (). At this point, I’m going to continue to look for options while feeling held into an app I’d rather not use. Sure it’s been stable, but it’s time for Scrivener to take a big leap forward in terms of functionality. When it **finally** came out I was excited, but the truth is the pace of development is so slow that it may as well not happen. Second, it only exports ePub and PDF files and for sales off () I want to offer users the option of a Mobi file as well. That is certainly something I’m looking harder at. I know I could split the research storage out to an app like DEVONthink To Go or KeepIt organizing and tagging research there and then only doing the writing in Ulysses. So is there a good alternative for Scrivener that iPadOS users can use without issues? I know () but that doesn’t handle research well. ![]() # Is there an iPadOS Scrivener Alternative? pdf, or plain text, but those aren’t the formats you’ll want if you’re going to be sending your book off to Kindle. ![]() Yes you can send your document out to Word. Yes, Scrivener for macOS is pretty heavy if you’re going to get into styles but with some work you can get a manuscript that looks good across e-readers and will print well. Unlike macOS Scrivener, iPadOS doesn’t have much in the way of export/compile settings. This is a trivial thing to do on macOS, but iPadOS…nope. It’s really hard to set all your “body” text to a new setting, or tweak all the quotes in your project. I could live with this but the iPad version of Scrivener doesn’t really let you deal with the style sheets of your projects. Like proper “old school” bold and italics. With markdown, you’re just working with text, but Scrivener adds in styles to the mix. Unlike my preference, Scrivener is a styled writing tool. Yes there is the ability to see anything you’ve recently looked at, but maybe I want to look at something I haven’t recently looked at, like other research I know is there so I can check it against what I’m currently viewing.įor Scrivener on iPad to become more useful it needs to support the new multi-window features of iPadOS and get that research/writing dual pane view under control. I can view research, but if I want to dig into something else I’ve written, I can’t easily navigate to it without leaving the current research out in the cold. The biggest problem with this interface is that it’s almost impossible to navigate between both panes at the same time. ![]() When I’m writing it’s fairly common for me to need to reference research and while Scrivener for iPadOS allows you to view both the research it has stored and the writing you’re doing, it’s not a great interface. It’s time for Scrivener to simply save silently in the background all the time so you don’t have to do the sync dance. You have to either “force” sync or ensure you return to the main interface so that it does it’s sync routine and you don’t loose files. Going along with issues with Dropbox is the saving mentality of Scrivener. Scrivener needs to start supporting other save locations, especially iCloud. I use it daily with many apps and have no issues saving anything. At this point though, Dropbox is continuing to make moves into the business realm while iCloud has become vastly more stable. Yes when Scrivener first came out for iPad, iCloud was terrible and Dropbox was the best option. Unfortunately as I’ve moved mostly to iPadOS, Scrivener isn’t cutting it. I’ve used it heavily for every book I’ve written, and many of my longer pieces with a bunch of research and footnotes. Scrivener has been a great tool for so many years. ![]()
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