Scrivener
by eatonhamilton
Who uses this program? Who values it?
I use it and I value it, though even after years, I don’t understand it completely nor use it efficiently. I do love it, though, for the ease of bringing up alternate versions of the ms I’m working on, or other chapters, or research notes. Toggling through is intuitive in a way that Word just isn’t.
I’ve never used it to organize a poetry collection, but I think it would be useful. What do you think? Have you ever tried it for poetry?
What do you use it for?
Eaton Hamilton 
Yes, yes, yes!!! Could not make my poetry collections without Scrivener. It’s so perfect for multiple drafts, edits and not least, trying out different ordering. I keep all my poetry writing in one project (drafts galore, final copies, what is published, what is sent out, what is raw, what is getting close to ready, what was written this year, last year, in 1995….). I then make separate projects to work with each book. Now I am using Scrivener for a memoir; which is so massive that I have made a new project for each major rewrite… I am not trained and could probably use Scrivener better, but even at my level it is so useful and beats having a bunch of documents in folders on my desktop, virtual or otherwise. I think Scrivener is particularly good for poetry collections. Scrivener does not curtail my packrat tendencies to hoard every scrap I’ve written, but it keeps them organized and searchable, and even with hundreds of documents and folders and subfolders, it runs well and doesn’t crash. Wouldn’t write poetry without it for storage and backup!
Rasma Haidri