Airtable vs Scrivener: Which is a better fit?

Onome D.: Hello, my name is Onome. I am an artist and facilitator. I am a solopreneur and I give Airtable four out of five stars. Prior to Airtable, I was using Google Drive as my content library, and I find Airtable to be better suited to the job. Well, it just so happened that I was able to receive a template for doing my content management system that made it easier for me to figure out how to organize my content in a fairly straightforward way. It was a bit of a learning curve, even with the template because I mean, there's so many options and so many customizations. So I'd say overall it's a pretty steep learning curve. In my case, having a template made a bit of an easier entry point for me. But even with that entry point, it was a little difficult to understand how to add new columns and customize the database. So I'd say it's a little bit of challenge. I would say that though Airtable has worked just fine for my purposes as a solopreneur, it's better suited to a team of people just because it has so many potential moving parts. And the way in which it is customizable, I think it would be better suited to a team of people, like a group of archivists or a group of social media content managers, that kind of thing. Those teams would be the ones that would best be served by a software like Airtable.

John P.: Hi, my name is John. I'm an author and publisher and I give Scrivener a five out of five stars. For more reviews, click the link below. Before using Scrivener, I was using index cards and notebooks to write out my books and my plots and that wasn't working all that great. There were a number of reasons why I chose Scrivener. It helped me plot out my books before I wrote them and it put it in a much more organized way than I was used to doing, just because I could see it. I could go back. I could break down chapters and break those chapters down into scenes. And because I write series, I'm able to put those series now together and reference back to different characters and different scenes and different settings. Scrivener was one of those programs that is kind of standard now in the writing community. So there was lots of people saying that it was something to try out, something that was great to use. It took a little bit for me to figure it out just because there are so many features and I think each writer that uses Scrivener is probably going to pick the features that are best for them. But after some video tutorials and some hit-and-miss, I don't even start a book without using Scrivener now. When I started out Scrivener was a little bit intimidating just because there were so many features and so I started to try to do it myself at first. But they offered lots of different tutorials that I was able to go through step by step. And there were a lot of things that I learned how to use, but I didn't need to use. But that was still helpful because I might still use them in the future. But I would say it took an hour or two to really figure out how to set up a book and even how to import a book that I was working on from a different program. But overall, I think that with a little bit of patience, I think most writers will be able to figure it out pretty quickly. When I started out writing books, I kind of did it by the seat of my pants and those are called pantsers. I'm a planner now, so my advice is that if you really want to figure out your book and really have a solid plot line and solid characters, there really isn't any other program out there that will provide all of what you need in order to really write a great novel.