Post by jan on Jan 29, 2006 1:09:49 GMT
One great feature of Mori (the program formerly known as Hog Bay Notebook) is the Trash folder. By default, every project has a Trash can at the bottom of the outline, and every file or folder you delete from the outline automatically goes there. It works exactly like the Finder trash can. You can rummage through the trash and retrieve deleted files in case you change your mind, or you can empty it with a shortcut.
I think this feature would be particularly useful in a writer's program. Discarding ideas is as important a part of the creative process as writing them up. Writers should never hesitate to delete stuff. But it would give some ease of mind - and thereby encourage the use of the delete key - to know that deleted files are not completely destroyed.
(It's probably the same with writing a program: you have to part with some features at a certain stage - 0.2b, for instance - to make it better, but you'd probably hesitate to delete all the code you have written without the safety net of a backup.)
In Scrivener, the Trash folder would function as the Draft folder's antithesis, so to speak. If we a assume for a moment that a future version of Scrivener implements custom folders (this is the Wish List forum, ok? :)) - the project outline would look like this:
- Draft < fixed folder
- Custom folder
- Custom folder
- - Custom sub-folder
- Custom folder
- - Custom sub-folder
- - - Custom sub-sub-folder
- etc ..
- Trash < fixed folder
The final chapters go up to the Draft folder, the ideas that turned out to be wrong or inapplicable go down to the Trash, and between these antipodal points of the project, we have a playground of free-form creativity where preliminary ideas, plot outlines, fragments, media files and research materials can be collected and structured.
What do you think?
I think this feature would be particularly useful in a writer's program. Discarding ideas is as important a part of the creative process as writing them up. Writers should never hesitate to delete stuff. But it would give some ease of mind - and thereby encourage the use of the delete key - to know that deleted files are not completely destroyed.
(It's probably the same with writing a program: you have to part with some features at a certain stage - 0.2b, for instance - to make it better, but you'd probably hesitate to delete all the code you have written without the safety net of a backup.)
In Scrivener, the Trash folder would function as the Draft folder's antithesis, so to speak. If we a assume for a moment that a future version of Scrivener implements custom folders (this is the Wish List forum, ok? :)) - the project outline would look like this:
- Draft < fixed folder
- Custom folder
- Custom folder
- - Custom sub-folder
- Custom folder
- - Custom sub-folder
- - - Custom sub-sub-folder
- etc ..
- Trash < fixed folder
The final chapters go up to the Draft folder, the ideas that turned out to be wrong or inapplicable go down to the Trash, and between these antipodal points of the project, we have a playground of free-form creativity where preliminary ideas, plot outlines, fragments, media files and research materials can be collected and structured.
What do you think?
