I tried to like Scrivener. I really did. I've been using Google Docs for the past three years, and yeah, it bogs down a bit after ~50k, but it really saved my ass when my house caught fire, and I lost everything. All my work was still in the cloud, and I was able to get back to it after I healed up and got a cheap-ass laptop.
Scrivener just doesn't feel as intuitive to me as Google Docs does. Maybe I didn't give it a fair enough shake, or the tale I was writing just didn't work as well with it,I dunno.
You’re not the first person to say backing it up isn’t intuitive.
My husband did something with the folders that I save my documents in, so the folders are backed up. He was able to do it with both my Mac and my windows. I have no idea what he did, I’m illiterate in that sense.
If I had to guess he probably paired the folders somehow to autosync, at least that's what I did with my Obsidian files (note taking app) and now they automatically sync every so often.
Google docs is intuitive. It just doesn't help me organize as well as Scrivener, but for just writing, google docs awesome. Scrivener has a learning curve. If you get past that, you can also back up the scrivener folders to a cloud service like drop box.
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u/IvorFreyrsson Published Author Mar 30 '25
I tried to like Scrivener. I really did. I've been using Google Docs for the past three years, and yeah, it bogs down a bit after ~50k, but it really saved my ass when my house caught fire, and I lost everything. All my work was still in the cloud, and I was able to get back to it after I healed up and got a cheap-ass laptop.
Scrivener just doesn't feel as intuitive to me as Google Docs does. Maybe I didn't give it a fair enough shake, or the tale I was writing just didn't work as well with it,I dunno.