Moving from Scrivener to Org-mode

Posted on 2014-08-11 by jcs

The estimable Org-mode maintainer Bastien Guerry tweeted a link to an interesting thread on the Org-mode mailing list.

The thread concerned advice for a writer wishing to try Emacs and Org-mode. What I found interesting is that the writer was currently using Scrivener. I’ve written before about my belief that Emacs can do everything Scrivener can. The thread doesn’t address that but it is interesting that some of the commenters moved from Scrivener to Emacs/Org1.

Writers, and everyone else for that matter, should use whatever tools they’re comfortable and productive with but the thread is another piece of evidence that there’s no reason that tool can’t be Emacs.

Footnotes:

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Not everyone agrees. In this post, Charlie Stross discusses his use of Scrivener and his belief that it’s much better than Org mode. There’s additional discussion of this point in the comments so when you get to the post, search for Scrivener to see everything.

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