Writer’s Café is not marketed as a fully featured writing platform, rather it strives to be a stimulant and nerve centre of creative thought a “playground for the imagination”. Writer’s Café is a software package on offer from Anthemion Software Inc – and yes, despite the single program, it is a package, targeted towards: creative story writers, screenwriters, biographers, directors – in effect, anyone who would benefit from an organizer to compile their ideas. Simon has been using Writer’s Café and has volunteered to review it for us. Simon is a new writer, dipping his toe in the waters of fiction and non-fiction and has a long-term goal of writing for a living. So that’s a good round up, but there are other tools that might fit the bill which we will look it in due courseįor this week’s post in Tools for Writing I have a guest contributor, Simon West. Mellel – Aimed at professional writers but with too much emphasis on formatting for me.Scrivener – Scriverner is the Boss, but there’s a learning curve.UV Outliner – A good free Windows Outliner, nice outlines but with check-list features.CarbonFin – Full featured, but I would need to check how to get notes out of it.OmniOutliner – A good Mac tool, somewhere between an outliner and a database.LittleOutliner – simple and easy to use, but requires a web connection.Workflowy – A clean interface with simepl nested text.OneNote – full featured, though complex to use.Some tools are aimed more at check-lists and task management, but I recommend you take a look at the following reviews: Rather than repeat what has been done well elsewhere let me refer you to a good overview of outlining software for a variety of platforms, both free software and paid, over at :

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