No dependency on the operating systemĪpps like Storyist and Ulysses are MacOS exclusive, even scrivener had the limitation of where certain features would only work depending on the operating system you are on. on top of that, I won’t exactly be able to access my projects from “anywhere”, and this leads me to my second point.
What will very likely happen is annoying conflicts with uploading/downloading the files with dropbox. This means that whatever I write will be stored on my hard drive (unless they have a cloud sync feature), and I will have to probably set up dropbox or google drive to sync my project across multiple machines.
Technical problems I want to solve Access your writing from anywhereĪ good amount of the popular creative writing-oriented apps seem to have been developed to be installable. Besides workflows and tools, I am actually attempting to solve technical problems at the same time. I will be discussing them one by one in the near future. There are multiple problems that I am trying to solve with what I believe to be very interesting features for writers. So am I making an entire app just to support a single workflow? What eventually happened is that I moved to web app development, and eventually decided to develop my own creative writing app. However, I quickly realized that it’s a massive undertaking and would require a lot of hacking around to get a simple thing working.īetween that and the next part, there was me trying to tackle game development, but we will skip that part of the story for another time. I actually attempted to create a chrome extension that could override a lot of Google Docs’ functionalities to serve the workflows that I want to achieve. When I write a story down, I would write the “key points” first, just to get the ideas out of my head. I have tried Scrivener, Aeon Timeline, Writing Duet, and good ol’ google docs.īefore I even considered developing an app, at first, I wanted a very simple workflow to be achieved. The idea of the app came about because of the limitations that I have faced when using other writing apps. Project anchor is a placeholder name for the creative writing app that I am developing. The best I could do at the time was create web forms through jQuery, and a few incomplete chrome extensions.Įarlier, I talked about t he hard learned lessons of trying to build my first web app, and now, I will be diving into more details of how this idea was conceptualized. I didn’t have any prior knowledge in APIs, databases, ORM, React, ES6 Javascript, Typescript, and the list keeps going. When I set out to develop my own creative writing app, I really didn’t know what I signed myself up for.