This app offers a really quality set of tools for the writer, and in my case as a rank amateur what it offers is pretty much exactly the help I need and nothing more--I can make notes, keep centralized info about characters and other story parts, organize the piece by section, and the margin notes are flat-out awesome.

It also doesn't go overboard with the "CONTENT ONLY! NO FORMATTING!" model of some other writing apps; sometimes, you just want to put in some bold or italic text, and I'd rather not have my app tell me that's not an option because it's not "pure" or something.

There's basically only one defficiency that I can see, and it's an acceptable one: The database is awesome, but there's no way to directly cross-reference it to the body text. So you can make notes to your heart's content about a character, but you can't link that note to, say, a section that character shows up in.

I really only have one potential complaint: It uses (necessarily) a proprietary file format, and if I'm working on something important and time consuming, that makes me nervous. Obviously I want to back up like crazy, especially with beta software, but there's something to be said for, say, .rtf, which is very simple structurally and can be read by a lot of apps. Text could be extracted from a .jrwr file in the case of a total disaster--I checked--but the margin notes and database are not in a format that is at all transparent. Being a monolithic file with a fair amount of sectioned info, it makes me a bit uncomfortable, since relatively minor corruption could eat the whole mess for breakfast.

Still, awesome app, and I'm going to give it a shot in "production". Here's looking forward to a universal, and final, version.