Wrike vs Scrivener: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Graham. I'm head of Media Operations at EssenceMediacom, and my rating out of five for Wrike is five. So we looked at all kinds of similar systems before choosing Wrike. Monday.com, Visor, Teamwork, Quickbase. None of them really came up to what we really wanted from a system that was going to integrate fully with our systems and support that management workflow from end to end. So the reasons that we chose Wrike is that it was going to help our business through our year of transformation. It was going to help us set tasks and manage tasks and manage that workflow all the way from top to bottom throughout our whole company. It was quite easy to onboard with Wrike. It took somewhere between three to six months. We went into a lot of detail with the Wrike team, they held our hand through the process, and they ended up integrating with the majority of our systems. The advice I would give people who are considering Wrike for their company is it the right fit, is it going to support your management, is it going to integrate with your systems, and is their company the right fit for you?

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.