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Scrivener for iOS : Thoughts

I have been using scrivener for a while now on my iPhone and iPad.

And I like it. It is a lot less over whelming then its desktop counterpart.  I sat with my phone and wrote over five hundred words when while my other half was watching Deep Space Nine on Netflix.

I have used Scrivener for mac for going on five years now. Even I can find it difficult to get my head around. It is undoubtedly powerful but sometime feel like that power is trapped behind it’s convoluted interface. Now to be honest that most of it power is connected to that interface. I have always liked that there is more than one way to do most things and it adapts to how you want to work.

More so than say Microsoft Word. 1

The simplicity of the iOS version is staggering. It has all the powerful features I like to use but contains them in a much more simple form. It is such a joy to use.

I can see why Keith has had to take such a long time to develop it. Aside from the loss of two iOS developers it is more than worth the wait since it was first announced.

I for one cannot wait to see what Keith and the fine people at Literature and Latte do with Scrivener for mac next. It should be good.

Might to have to buy the iPad Pro 9.7” with Smart Keyboard now they finally have international layouts. Either that or the iPad Pro 12.9” with the Razer Mechanical Keyboard as it even has Backlight Keys!

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The lesser spotted Lurgy

I write this I am recovering from a spot of Lurgy. Or is it The Lurgy. I am always unsure, should you call it The Flu or it just Flu. Or it a illness scale “Last year I had flu but this year I had The Flu”. That is without going into where Man Flu sit, which my Fiancée assures me is a real thing.

Started to come down with a cold last Tuesday. Wednesday it got on to my chest and roughed me up a bit. I have what you might call a weak chest. I had a chest infection when I was 27 and ever since then when some cold gets on to my chest it f**ks me up. I spent a lot of time sweating and being completely out of it.

Now me being ill is not new but it hampers my writing as it happened at the start of two days off straight. Normally I will get the odd day here and there as I work in retail. So I think it is what I get for planning two full days after working five days. I work with the public a lot and it means I am front and centre when comes to illnesses.

Anyhow I did was realise how cool Alto’s Adventure is. It was only game I could play in my fevered state. I played on my Apple TV and all took was a pressing single button. It became quite zen and calming after while. Broken up with small spells of my freaking out because I had got to the furthest distance marker.

I also played a lot of SteamWorld Heist by Image & Form. It is set in the same universe of SteamWorld Dig (my favourite mining game) and full of cute steam bots called Cowboys. It is a cute and fun game. I was made aware of it by Jam_Sponge of the excellent DaftSouls podcast. He said it was like Xcom and I see what means. Xcom Two always feels like when things go wrong, it is you who made the mistake. SteamWorld Heist is very similar in that regard. It came out on the Nintendo DS store awhile ago but as I don’t have a DS I had to bide my time. Music to the game is supplied by Steam Powered Giraffe.

I also listened to a lot of Bukle’s Podcast(Aka Adam Buxton) which is very good.

And the Literature and latte are finally releasing Scrivener for iOS. Which I thought would never happen. I knew they had gone to beta testing the program but I had expected that it would take the amount time it took them to get that point ie six months to a year. Well that is what I get for not trusting Keith. When it comes out I will put my thoughts on using it here.

TLDR I’ve been of work for just under a week and I was so out all I could do was play Altos Adventure as it was the only thing I could get my head around.