![]() ![]() Thankfully we are very close now, so I wanted to personally give some insight into the hurdles and challenges we have had to overcome. Scrivener for Mac has never stopped moving - ever! Keith once compared my role akin to Sisyphusįirst and foremost, we are all determined to get it right. We just don't release half-baked software, but strive for the best it can reasonably be with a high utility yield. We do this because we genuinely care about our audience, and our software. Often, that last 5%-10% of development tweaking and fixing is hard to justify as it takes an inordinate amount of extra time especially when many organisations just push it out and fix it later, but we don't see the need to frustrate our audience that way. SCRIVENER FOR MAC AND WINDOWS DOWNLOADIntrepid users can always download the beta of Scrivener 3 after all and the beta has been robust and stable for at least six months or so now. I believe Scrivener for Windows history speaks for itself. ![]() For version 1 we spent around a year in beta I still have the nightmares - don't ever try and build your own rich text engine from scratch debugging that thing is like opening Pandora's box. SCRIVENER FOR MAC AND WINDOWS UPGRADEScrivener 1 for Windows was only ever supposed to match Mac Scrivener 1.5.4, but soon incorporated many Scrivener 2 Mac features (that Mac users paid an upgrade fee for). ![]() mobi), Meta data, Inspector Comments and Footnotes, Collections, Multimarkdown, Multiple Project Notes, Final Draft import and export, Composition mode background image, Custom Binder icons, Syncing with iOS and cloud, etc. Scrivener for Mac has never stopped moving - ever! Keith once compared my role akin to Sisyphus - you know the Greek who was punished to push a large rock up on a steep hill, only to find it rolling back when nearing the top. Whilst this does frustrate me at times no end, I would not have it any other way as Scrivener is constantly getting better, more refined and useful. So, as much as pushing another dozen rocks up a hill pains me and spits expletives at my computer screen at times, Scrivener and our audience is all the better for it - and that floats my boat to some extent the satisfaction that comes from extreme effort. Scrivener for Windows, for the first time ever looks just as beautiful and useful as the macOS version! We want as much parity between Scrivener Mac and Windows as possible. The meeting point was version 3, but since then Mac Scrivener has already had six releases! So, my role as Sisyphus continues with the only constant being change itself and the never ending cycle of steep hills. We keep running, but the gap feels like it shrinks minimally. ![]()
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