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This kind of instant-alert RSS reader would be annoying for regular news feeds, if you're like me and you subscribe to 200-odd feeds. However, for things you really want to stay on top of, it's fantastic.

Loving the beta. This is everything I had hoped CopyWrite would be.

Screenshot is just a cluttered version of the full screen mode and you really need to try this app to believe it. It's amazing, give beta 5 a download!

This is an absolutely marvelous application. I spend hours every day in it and love it.

It combines the (for me) best features of Ulysses, DevonThink and OmniOutliner. Nice tool if you need to have your research materials close by while writing and compiling your texts. Very cool!

A very good idea that has been implemented in a simple, functional and well-rounded text editor. No match with MS Word for essay writing.

A few minor bugs and 'idiosyncrasies' are sometime annoying but don't spoil the overall quality of the app.

Scrivener, to me, is one of those apps. that are worth buying a Mac just to be able to use (right up there with TextMate, Quicksilver, and NetNewsWire). Simply brilliant and it keeps getting better with every new release. The current Beta is pure gold.

Fantastic tool, clearly designed by and for writers. Start to finish, notes to final draft, Scrivener falls right in with the Mac mantra: it just works.

This update raises the bar even higher for how fantastic a writing application can be. I'll reiterate that this is one of those apps. that it's worth buying a Mac just to use. Simply superb.

Scrivener is just the most fantastic writing app. The right balance of research management and writing structuring, with a UI that is always helpful, never in the way. It appears Zen-like simple, but one can dig deep. 1.1 is a fantastic update, with hundreds of tweaks and features to hone the writing experience. I just wish there was a Windows version I could give as presents to my writing friends (I'd get them Macbooks+Scrivener, but that may sting my pockets ;-)

Ahhh, this is writing bliss. No worrying about formatting or page breaks, or keeping up with hundreds of toolbar buttons you'll never use. Just a nice, slick fullscreen writing mode with no interruptions, an intuitive organizational structure, and a nice looking UI on top. Definitely the first choice in any writing I do, and one of the few apps I was more than happy to pay for!

For the longest time I was using StoryMill and DevonThink Pro to manage both the research and the production aspect of writing fiction... until Scrivener fell into my lap. Everything gets loaded into one document, and I love the fact that I can write scene by scene without having to think about things linearly. Can't live without this app anymore. I love it.

Oh this is gaining so much ground on me... nothing else I've tried comes near this writing tool.

Surely, there is quite a saturated competition, with a bunch of similar tools, with similar concepts. But I find Scrivener to have the best vibe going on.

I like how you can tailor it to your specific writing style; i.e. it isn't particularly geared for screenwriting only, and it has a certain refreshing, 'generic' and universal feel to it.

If you're a, say, journalist, you can easily customize it for those needs. Likewise, for just about any field of application.

Farewell OmniOutlinerPro. Scrivener's great strength is that it lets you take an existing manuscript, break it apart into chunks--into an outline form, more or less--and then put it back together. Without the hideously clutterful interface of some other programs...

I've wandered over here from Avenir and Ulysses and CopyWrite. I'm evaluating it with Sente to handle footnotes, and the only thing I'm wishing for is integration with WriteRoom, my familiar full-screen editor.

The greatest thing ever created. Breaks with the single document word processor paradigm & lets you work easily with a non-linear writing process. Better than everything else in the known universe.

Best newsreader on any platform.

The best thing I could say about this app is that it never gets in my way. It does what I need it to, syncs across many computers, and looks clean.

NetNewsWire Lite may be "free" (gratis) for the moment, but Vienna is Free Software and does the same job + gives you the souce to change it.

http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php

I use NetNewsWire lite - It's simple but effective and syncs with the NewsGator service, which suits my purposes.