So, why such high price? - smolka

DevonThink's full screen does not work half as elegantly as Ulysses's, and the price is not so outlandish once you realise that

1. You start writing a lot more focussed
2. The target audience will always remain relatively small, and
3. a rolls royce requires a bit more handiwork than your average run-of-the-mill software. God is in the details!

Ever tried DEVONthink for writing? Really? It's a great app, I'm a registered fan, but I use if for storage and retrieval, not for composition, not even for organizing.

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Tuesday, December 06 2005 @ 03:32 PM PST

So, why such high price? - sasha_efi_dotmac

"God is in the details... Rolls Royce..." cool language! I'd appreciate actual details though :) You answered none of my questions, throwing some sand into my eyes.

Any full-screen editor allows the famous focus...

Indeed I couldn't compose in Devonthink, now that I've used it more. It's great for databasing and clean version storage. I'm using a combination of Tinderbox and Jer's Novel Writer instead for the actual outlining and writing of long projects.

I honestly laboured to get used to Ulysses. I wanted to like it, as I like the developers attitude and their professional approach. Probably it's only useful for short stories, rather than novels, given its lack of any meaningful nested organisation. But then again: Copywrite offers version tracking, a feature critical for short stories. So I bought it instead of Ulysses for my short stories (even though the full screen there isn't implemented as well as in Ulysses and Jer's: it always jumps to the bottom of the text).

Now my 60-day trial run out, and I didn't buy Ulysses yet. Maybe with the next version — why not, if it's good?

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Tuesday, December 20 2005 @ 01:56 PM PST