Swore by Google Docs for writing prompts until a friend made me try Scrivener

I spent $60 on Scrivener after a buddy at my Chicago writers group swore it would organize my messy prompt ideas better. Honestly thought it was overpriced but the way it keeps all my drafts, notes, and character sheets in one place is a game changer for me. No more jumping between tabs and losing half my ideas lol. Has anyone else switched from free tools and felt it was worth the money?

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lewis.troy13d ago

Has anyone ever tried using Scrivener's corkboard view to map out prompts by theme? I started color-coding mine by genre and it showed me I had way too many horror prompts piling up compared to everything else... kinda shifted how I plan my writing sessions now. The way it lets you drag and rearrange scenes in that board view really saved me from my own mess of random ideas scattered everywhere.

charlie_ellis13d ago

Oh man, color coding themes? That's getting pretty deep into the weeds for me. I just throw everything into labeled folders and call it a day. Does it really make that much difference if your horror prompts are color coded red or whatever? Seems like one more thing to keep track of when you could just be writing.