CopyWrite - 2.296

I liked Copywrite, I really did. However, after reported bugs went unfixed and suggestions were not implemented... not to speak of no update since May 2006, I started looking around... and found Scrivener! It has everything and more that is missing in Copywrite, starting with footnotes, outlines, structures, tables, and image support. Yet it is very simple. Sorry Bartas Technologies, but I've moved on.

Nice idea but very limited. It is not a good tool for scientific writing. There is no support for equations, tables, or figures.

This software could benefit a lot from linkback technology. Could it be possible for example to type a equation in CopyWrite in LaTeX and then convert it, with LaTeXit? I can do that in TextEdit for example. Not in CopyWrite.

After purchasing CopyWrite I ended up writing in CopyWrite, copying to TextEdit and writing Equations in TextEdit. This is very inefficient.

This is a great application, whether you're outlining a college paper or writing the next great american novel. The one major missing feature: hierarchical outlining support. This is crucial for creative projects, and since I wanted to use this software to organize a novel, I can't use it until this is added.

Also, documentation could be better.

I purchased CopyWrite and began adding pieces of a book I'm writing. Working in Microsoft Word was very cumbersome, and this program got my attention right away because of the potential for organizing and moving pieces around. The program has some wonderful features that make it much nicer than Word to work in, like the full screen mode. However, it is critically flawed due to the fact that you cannot change the order of the elements of the project. For example, if you want to move things around and set up your own heirarchy of order, forget it; once something is created, that's the order that you are stuck with until you export it. That makes the program more frustrating that Word, and unusable until this is fixed. I have contacted them to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong, and was told that this is a long overdue feature that was planned, but alas it is still missing in this update.

I rarely buy software for my Mac these days as I find it comes bundled with most of the useful software and if it's missing something I probably already own it.

When it comes to writing, however, this software has no parallel or competition. It alone gives me the flexibility of paper coupled with the grace of spellcheck. I can keep all my notes, my pages, my random musings, and my concepts in one tidy and frequently backed up place without fear of losing anything.

I could go on but I have a writing assignment that I must attend... in Copywrite.