#Scrivener for ios and windows portable#
It isn’t a professional, modern, digital, portable format. It isn’t a format for the twenty-first century. RTF has no future: it doesn’t sync well with mobile devices files don’t transfer well between different writing platforms and it was designed in an age when the focus was on supplying apps for office workers and producing work on paper. As MS says, no user should be trusting their work to it. No app should be using it as a native format. It has been deprecated by Microsoft, and the company has said that it shouldn’t be used.
RTF remains as an unreliable, basic interchange format. Yes, it has some functionality other apps don’t have, but nothing that can’t be replicated or improved upon in some way by using other tools. So glad to have found Obsidian, and feel that my work is now far more secure and far more capable of being augmented by being in plain text / markdown. It badly needs to be rethought and rewritten, but there is no sign of that happening. 
But it launched on tech that MS killed in 2008. Scrivener was a great product when it launched in 2007.Obsidian allows writers to be far more expansive and expressive. Obsidian allows thoughts and writing to develop along multiple paths and in multiple directions at the same time. Scrivener is designed for linear writing and ideas.
The development of Scrivener on a single platform and across multiple platforms has been ridiculously slow, with new versions being years late in their delivery. Syncing across platforms is terrible, and the iOS version has miserable functionality. Working between macOS and iOS is a nightmare with Scrivener. If the ageing developer retires tomorrow or contracts Coivd and dies, the company and the app risk being lost with him. There’s no community input (as there is with Obsidian) and the developer is only concerned with doing things that he likes. Scrivener is essentially a one-person company: one principal owner / developer. And RTF is a development cul-de-sac: there is no road ahead. No app should be using it natively these days. RTF was originally developed by Microsoft in 1987 and then abandoned by them in 2008. While it is possible to hack into Scrivener projects to retrieve the base RTF files or to export to different formats, the plain text of Obsidian and the universality of markdown are just so much more stable to work with, as well as being accessible to other apps without the need to export or compile. Obsidian is already a more powerful and flexible app, especially across platforms. After fourteen years, I’m moving on from Scrivener: I am in the process of moving all my work to Obsidian because of portability. I’m curious what other Scrivener users think. Ulysses seems like the next best option.īut I’m not sure Obsidian is a good solution for long writing (book length) as it lacks the ability to temporarily combine documents/sheets to get a good sense of the text flow and transitions. I had already started using Ulysses as a better long-term option due to my increasing concerns about getting stuff out of Scrivener and the lack of any development. She articulated what I’ve had a gut feeling about but had not yet articulated clearly to myself. I was reading several posts on the Obsidian forum when I ran across a post explaining why the poster was moving everything from Scrivener to Obsidian.
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