From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
To: Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org Writer's room
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 21:21:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec84q9a5NHYk=Wyiw8s=s3x=itS3D9sS8ga-Z0jhNtSXdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> This sounds like an interesting project. My advice is to make a few
>>> screenshots that give people an idea what you are working towards.
>>> Of course, they could be completely fake, but it would be helpful to
>>> understand for people like me who haven't used Scrivener.
>>
>> I would also like to see this. It sounds nice when I read your
>> description, but I still don't fully appreciate the idea.
>>
>> –Rasmus
>>
> I'm also very interested. I haven't used Scrivener -- what features do you
> see as making org a *way* better writing environment?
>
> Cheers,
> Alan
>
> --
> Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
> Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172385@iptel.org
>
>
Hi Everyone,
Sorry, I sent that last email off too quickly as I was realizing that
I actually had /work/ to do while I was at work...
Scrivener is a really neat program, which is designed to help writers
organize and manage large writing problems while staying focused on
the actual task of writing. Like org-mode, it has pretty powerful
tools for manipulating the structure of a text; in general it is (from
what I can tell) way less powerful than org-mode (what isn't?) but for
a writer that may sometimes be an advantage -- it removes
distractions.
From what I can tell (and I am not a very experienced user) one of the
main attractions of Scrivener is the metaphors it uses to organize
your work. Each project is called a 'Binder'; it's where you keep
your drafts, your notes, and any supporting materials for your
project. When you work on a project, you can "open up" your binder
and look at the materials on a 2-dimensional canvas to sort through
them. So, it's like taking your papers out of your binder and
spreading them out on your desk.
Each element in a binder is also represented as an "index card". On
the front of hte index card is a title and a synopsis; on the back is
the actual text you've been writing.
In combination, these two metaphors are a really helpful way of
thinking about your project, I think.
In org-mode, it would be very difficult to replicate the
almost-tactile feel of dragging index cards around a canvas to
organize them. (the .org file structure is actually probably really
well-suited to this, but one would need to write a whole other
program,I imagine in Javascript/HTML5, to implement the dragging).
However, some of the cool things about the Scrivener interface *can*
be implemented in org.
Take a look at the attached screenshots. I admire the 3-column
layout, with an outline view in the left-hand column, metadata
displayed on the right-hand side, and a main panel in the center which
is used either to display index-card representations of the document
structure, or the actual text that one intends to edit.
To start with I would like to just replicate this window structure,
because it keeps you focused on writing, while having the larger
structure available if you feel the need to flit around a bit. The
third screenshot shows a semi-fake, still very primitive version of
what I'd like to have. (I haven't figured out a good way to do the
metadata yet).
Does this help clarify a bit? Anyone think it's interesting?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-06 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 16:01 Org Writer's room Matt Price
2012-12-05 23:08 ` Andrew Hyatt
2012-12-06 0:22 ` Rasmus
2012-12-06 0:44 ` Alan L Tyree
2012-12-06 2:21 ` Matt Price [this message]
2012-12-06 7:12 ` Scot Becker
2012-12-06 8:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-12-06 8:36 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 9:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 9:14 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 10:28 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 10:51 ` David Engster
2012-12-06 11:25 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:55 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 11:58 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:50 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 12:00 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 12:07 ` David Engster
2012-12-06 12:26 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:59 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 12:09 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 14:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-12-06 15:51 ` Matt Price
2012-12-07 8:39 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-07 12:57 ` Matt Price
2012-12-07 13:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 4:21 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2012-12-06 12:00 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 18:18 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
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