24 January 2026 - Current thoughts

[leoloveisme]

I guess I've been trying to re-create Scrievener, with ALL these branching, versioning, etc - without know that Scrievener exists.
Now I feel that I'm quite far from getting my idea made true; esp. if it s Crowdly platform, desktop, web (and mobile, which are yet to come) apps.
Scrievener is quite complex and what I'm trying to do is what Scrievener does, on a broader scale: Crowdly platform, web app (which Scrievener doesn't have) additionally to desktop and mobile apps (which Scrievener have)
At time it feels overwhelming and to be honest at times my motivation plummets, esp. in those moments when I clearly undertand who I got myself into.
If I consciously knew about Scrievener earlier*, prior to starting this project, I would've approached this project differently

• I've heard about it before, but unfortunately never bothered to take a closer look, untill I've repeatedly seen on Reddit, that Scrievener is by far the most often recommended writing software - and I absolutely understand why that it the case.

The desktop app we did is quite good by now**, however it is miles away / behind Scrievener.

** (take a look onto our) master document functionality !!!

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