![]() ![]() You are able to save, load and create new documents which you can save locally or on Steam cloud. When you first start Nimble Writer, you'll go through fast tutorial explaining the main functions of the software. Writer, OmmWriter II and Nimble Writer all tend to do the same - create minimalistic, distraction free interface that will help you imprison yourself inside your own words. The third one is Nimble Writer and it costs 9.99 €/$ which makes it the most expensive amongst these three, but still cheaper than Microsoft Office, Scrivener or WriteItNow. If you've never used any of these, let's just say one is free with pro edition available for monthy, yearly and lifetime pricing, and the other one is being priced as name-your-price software with 5.11 $ minimum price tag. One of those is Dutch Nimble Writer which resembles Big Huge Lab's Writer and OmmWriter II. That's why people tend to buy software that's labeled as 'minimalistic' and 'creativity driven'. I'm writing a Nimble Writer's review using Nimble Writer.Ĭreative writing these days includes handling your bills, day job, frustrations, demanding family members, usual writer's blocks and thundering sounds of Facebook notifications drilling your ears. As a professional who writes hundreds of thousands of words a year, I gotta give it a hard pass. If you're a hobbyist writer, this might actually be right up your alley. It got frustrating within a few hours, but I still took too long and can't get a refund. And then there's the fact that it doesn't count my dictated words towards the achievements. I wanted a bare bones program, but I still need an editor with full Rich Text Formatting, or at least CSS I can edit like when I do my ebook formatting. I can get over every other issue this program has, like having no way to nest or put notes in organized folders, or the unique file format. But the Scrivener 3 Windows beta has a wonderful GUI that I can easily hide elements I don't want, a very similar darkmode like what Nimble Writer has, an improved fullscreen mode, and they still aren't charging for it. I really wanted to get away from Scrivener's complex file structure that makes de-syncs with cloud services a nightmare to deal with. The word tracker in the program doesn't count words pasted in as new words, so if I can't even have gamification, what is the point of using this program? I make part of my living from writing, and I do a copy pass at the end of everyday since I do the bulk of my writing via dictation. I can't enable double line spacing or indent paragraphs. It has a Notepad-grade editor with a darkmode. I kind of wish this thing had a trial, instead of forcing people to pay the full price when they don't know the full functions, which aren't listed. If someone's seriously considering writing a novel with notes, research, plotlines and character sheets, I'd advise them to dish out the $40 and buy Scrivener instead (or $35 at student discount, I believe). So if I'm recommending a quick writer with minimal distractions, I'd recommend the OmmWriter and Sigil (for compiling to epub) at a super-hefty price of about 5 dollars. As of now, there are seven, and two are for exporting to WordPress and FF.net, both of which Scrivener does without a hitch. oh, I don't know, about 40 add-ons, it'd provide a competitor for Scrivener. I can't imagine why I'd want to encrypt it, so I can't really say much on it. The only benefit of Nimble, possibly, is cloud sync, but you can just save on dropbox for Scrivener and that'd solve the problem. It even allows you to take snapshots so you can do massive re-write, then roll back to the original if you don't like it. plus it does all the things Nimble does, including word count, word target, full-screen, e.t.c. mobi (lets you add table of contents, cover, and everything else an ebook needs), adding images, adding pdfs, managing sources. Scrivener offers everything from dictionary to wikipedia to name generator, not to mention colour-coding documents, sticking them in hierarchial folders (no limit, I believe), highlighting, back-up, templates for settings and characters, exporting formats from manuscript with Courier font to. Organisation-wise, I've found Scrivener to be well worth the price, which is 4 times the price of Nimble. Nimble outdoes the Ommwriter in text-editing UI by a far margin, but when it comes to just distraction-free writing environment, this isn't a very able editor. This interface is a general simplified version of your average word editor OmmWriter takes up the entire screen, toolbars included, so that it offers minimal distraction when writing. I've used OmmWriter for concentrating and Scrivener for just regular novel-writing, and this thing doesn't measure up to either.Ĭoncentration-wise, OmmWriter trumps this thing. I am a rather frequent writer and I do write a lot (my novels average some 100,000 words).
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