The only thing I miss about the Mac – and yes, I do mean the <em>only</em> thing – is <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/index.html" target="_blank">Scrivener</a>. Well next month Scrivener 2 will finally be out. Just so you don’t think this is a Google-style upgrade, i.e. one of those things that gets rushed out every three months or so, let me reveal a little secret.

<a href="http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/general.png"><img title="General" alt="General" style="display:inline;margin:0 0 15px;" src="http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/general_thumb.png" width="240" height="200" align="right" /></a>I’ve been working with a beta of V2 of Scrivener for something like two years, perhaps even more. <em>The Blue Demon</em> was finished with it. <em>The Fallen Angel</em> was written in it entirely. <em>The Plague Doctor, </em>which you will get in 2012, was also a Scrivener 2 beta production.

Never crashed, never caused me any problems. Keith, Scrivener’s creator, has <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/?p=133" target="_blank">now given a preview of the features of the release version</a> when it comes out. Well worth a look – they go well beyond anything in the betas I used and will make this already great app even more useful.

Looking forward to the Windows version, Keith!