When creating a new major document at work, I usually start in Scrivener before moving to the official system, once I have figured out how the document needs to work.
We heard from academics, screenplay writers, and authors. Although it has many standard word processing features, Scrivener focuses on helping writers organize notes, characters, and sources. It is, however, not as good as Pages when it comes to page layout features, embedding images etc. Love the interface, the configurability, styles, find and replace, doc comparison, macros etc. Nisus has a much more powerful and versatile Find-and-Replace than Microsoft Word or any other word processor. Users generally agreed that it offers the power and functionality of Microsoft Word without the complexity. So lamentations that Pages 6.Īlthough they received far fewer votes than Microsoft Word and Pages, Nisus Writer Pro and Scrivener earned the top ratings from TidBITS readers, likely due to their focus on niche audiences with serious word processing needs. However, less anticipated was the fact that the current Pages 6.
