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Bibliotech Episode 11: Keith Blount of Scrivener

Bibliotech Episode 11: Keith Blount of Scrivener

When I explain Mahalo, the search service that I am CTO of during my day job, I usually describe the search space as unfinished. There is still room for massive improvement. I then typically contrast this with a software domain that IS finished — Microsoft Word, for example. Word Processing is solved. You can maybe make it 3% or 4% better, but the massive innovation is over, done, finit. And then comes along some bloke Cornwall England who proves me wrong. Scrivener utterly reinvents what word processing should be for novelists everywhere. After hearing 4 previous Bibliotech guests rave about how this product has changed the way they write, I gave it shot — and I’m hooked as well, I’ll never go back to Word. Please join me in welcoming Keith Blount.

We do a full demo of Scrivener and show you how to use it — and why you want to — besides talking with Keith about why he created it, who’s using it, how he’s marketing it, etc.

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  • http://independentstitch.typepad.com Deborah Robson

    Yes, I’m a novelist–and also a nonfiction writer. Scrivener is HEAVEN for major nonfiction research projects as well. If I’d known about it, I’d have bought a Mac as soon as I discovered it. I only found it after I’d bailed on the PCs due to technical problems. It’s super for organizing massive, extremely complex, long-term projects.

  • Robert Luke

    I admire Scrivener as a software product but also find Keith’s academic and work background interesting. While I’m an engineer, I am the son of two English teachers and Keith’s story of the origin and development of Scrivener is appealing. Personally, I’ve been using Scrivener to help me transcribe audio/video interviews, organize, and develop my family genealogy research. Scrivener is one of the compelling software products that have made me happy I switched to Mac in 2006.

  • Terry S

    Nice interview! And yes, Scrivener IS awesome!

    I was mystified by the font the two of you mentioned, which you were both pronouncing so it sounded to me like a cross between “Korea-r” and “cow rear”. Then it dawned on me: you must have meant “Courier” (same as the word meaning “messenger”), which is pronounced like the first word in “Currier & Ives”… But maybe you come from the part of the country that pronounces “Houston” as “house-ton” rather than “hews-ton”?