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anyone else moving over from Google Docs?

JJordan Ellery3 wk ago3 replies1

okay so i've drafted everything in google docs since i was 15. four nanos, two finished drafts, one folder literally called FINAL final 2

brought reflection thief over tonight (downloaded it as a .docx and imported it) and it found my chapters properly which i did not expect?? 88k words and nothing on fire

what i'll miss: typing on my phone on the bus. what i won't miss: scrolling 300 pages to find chapter 19

anyone else making the jump? what did you lose?

3 replies

  1. PPriya Natarajan2 wk ago

    Not from Docs, but I'm folding two tools into one: Scrivener for the draft and World Anvil for the world, with years of habits in each.

    What I'll miss so far
    - My World Anvil pages go back years, and I'm not rebuilding 140 characters in a weekend.
    - Scrivener's binder is pure muscle memory by now.

    What's already better
    - Once a character is in the Story World, their name is highlighted in the prose, and hovering it shows you who they are. With 140 characters, that's the thing I didn't know I needed.

    Moving over in batches. Main cast first.

  2. JJordan Ellery2 wk ago

    140 characters in a weekend would end me. main cast first is smart

    also 'the thing i didn't know i needed' is exactly how i feel about not scrolling

  3. CColm Reddan2 wk ago

    Word, for twenty-odd years. A 100,000-word manuscript in one file. Page 212 used to take its time arriving.

    I don't miss that. I do miss knowing where everything is. Give me a fortnight.

  4. SSamir Haddad2 wk ago

    i was writing in my phone notes and emailing it to myself lol so anything is an upgrade

    still write on my phone on breaks and paste it in when i get home. it splits it into paragraphs for you which has saved me a lot of enter key

  5. JJordan Ellery2 wk ago

    emailing yourself is so real. my drafts folder in 2019 was just subject lines like 'ch6 bus'

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