At the time I was using Mellel, it just wasn’t portable. Mellel also has (in my experience) extremely simple integration with several popular MacOS reference managers, Bookends and Sente. If you decide to resubmit that journal article to another publisher and they have a different format for headings? No problem, just modify the style for headings. and then Mellel does its best to apply consistent formatting to your text based on those styles. title, paragraph, blockquote, citations, etc. You set-up a series of basic styles, i.e. Perhaps most importantly, it never crashed on me once in three years of intensive use.
#MELLEL SOFTWARE PROFESSIONAL#
I wrote my masters thesis in Mellel, a product which advertises itself as “The Word Processor for Professional Writers” and it is pretty good. So, I went shopping for a new tool a few years ago. I’m not a typesetter – I don’t need to set weird margins, add tab stops, adjust page width, change line spacing, or use a bunch of different fonts. Also, I can’t lug a laptop around everywhere with me, sometimes I think of the perfect sentence to add to my last paragraph while I’m on the bus home and only have a smartphone. When I’m writing, I’m already really susceptible to distractions and it takes a lot of willpower to stay the course and put words down on paper. However, for a professional writer, Word just has way too much going on. No, I’m not one of those default Microsoft haters – one of the original developers of MS Word is a close friend of mine – it’s a decent product that was a superior option in the early days. I wrote my undergraduate thesis (back when 30k words seemed like a big deal!) in Microsoft Word.
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