So I think apps should do what they do best and stick with that. AT3 would also struggle as I don’t believe it is a macOS native app, so the devs would have to write their own text generation system and Windows’ text systems are a poor cousin of the mac’s systems. Something the devs for Scrivener Windows had to laboriously emulate in Windows. The windows version of Scrivener took much longer than expected to get anywhere near the macOS version, because Scrivener for Mac and Ulysses both utilise macOS’ text generation systems. Software like Scrivener and Ulysses have been developed for twenty years (in Ulysses’ case) and are best in class at what they do. I have to disagree with Adding a text generation system to AT3 is far from a minor addition. So, Aeon Timeline 3 is a story telling powerhouse and needs, I think, to be marketed as such if it wants to steal the market from other, inferior apps.īut, being able to tell stories doesn’t mean that AT3 should be developed as a replacement for either Scrivener or Ulysses. Project managers are mapping out the future of projects, which is effectively the story of what needs to happen to achieve successful targets. Historians are collecting the elements of stories that have occurred in the past, and using those elements to portray and present those stories to present and future generations. Lawyers tell stories (what happened to whom, when and why, and what is likely to happen next as a result of that pieced together story). Or, perhaps, as I mentioned to the dev team, the focus should be on story. So, back to and his question: who is the app primarily intended for? I also think the marketing for the app should focus on writers, with the other uses as an addendum to the main market. Historians do, researchers do, lawyers probably don’t. But writers don’t think of stories in terms of data. Sure, stories are effectively a mix of characters, places, plot lines, beats, themes all of which could be viewed as story data. ![]() A quick glance at the AT3 website shows data, data, data, data. This is something that I have discussed with the development team. Aeon is, in my opinion, the best story planning software out there, but it struggles to tell its own story. Everyone knows that Plottr is for plotting stories and therefore is exclusively for writers. ![]() So why are these writers not using AT3? Plottr’s defined and narrow marketing focus. If you go on the public roadmap for Plottr and head to the Ideas section, request after request asks for features that AT3 already does, and does extremely well. Apps like Plottr are merely pretenders to AT3’s crown. I also agree with Aeon 3 should appeal to many more writers than it appears to. I am in agreement that Aeon Timeline is software that is particularly useful to writers. ![]() I agree with the sentiment of this thread.
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