I've been using this software a long, long time.

Likes:

1. it allows me to track projects and invoice my clients.
2. Server syncing.
3. Templates for invoices.

Dislikes:

1. the UI. It's Difficult to understand. Rubbish.
2. Overcomplicated. Too many features all on screen at the same time.
3. Expensive.
4. Hard to use. UI not withstanding, some things, like template design, are difficult to work with.
5. No copy-paste of items, such as work items. When you have a lot to create, right-clicking -> move mouse -> Duplicate is tedious.

In short, buy only if, after an EXHAUSTIVE search, nothing else suits your needs. This could have been brilliant, this program, but it does too much, and none of it really well.

Have been using it for quite some time and it's wonderful. I've tried GitX, Gity, Gitbox and an extended beta test of Tower (which was excellent, but bloody expensive) and SmartGit wins. The default layouts are sensible, the speed of working with it is excellent, and it's solid and stable.

Anyone who overlooks this because it's a non-cocoa client should give it another chance, you're only losing out yourself.

Modern games leave very little to your imagination: there's usually a set goal, one or few set ways to reaching it, and heavily detailed graphics that show you exactly what the game developers want you to see.

Angband and all the rogue-like variants are not about this. The graphics are non-existent or limited to tiles, the gameplay is entirely open, and your goals may be different: you might want to collect magical weapons, or learn all the spells, or whatever, but it's a rich, rich world down there, and we're all the richer for it. It may take a little getting used to if you're coming from Doom III or Half-Life 2, but if you love gaming, love fantasy, then you may find something new and brilliant here.

There's nothing like a little frustration and disappointment (carting unknown weapons and armour; finding out they're rubbish) to make the triumphs (finding a Holy Avenger; killing a Multi-Hued Dragon) even sweeter.

Try it, you'll like it :D

This is a swiss army knife for serious writing. But, this isn't an application to try out for an afternoon and then discard. You'll be doing both the app and yourself a disservice.

I use Scrivener for two things: contributing write-ups for a online magazine, and writing academic papers for my MA.

The write-ups are short, but require lots of info and shuffling around, while the academic essays are obviously longer, require references and the like. All these papers are output through LaTEX, anyhow, so I require a program that works well with LaTEX.

Scrivener does compile the draft out to LaTEX, but I've not found it particularly good, and as I keep my references in Scrivener as actual BibTEX/LaTEX markup, the compile tends to mess these up. Scrivener does open BibDesk up so I copy references straight in, so that's fantastic.

If I had any time to spend with the LaTEX templates in Scrivener, I could probably figure out how to make it all work. I'll bet it can be done.

The whole process of writing is different to what one might expect from Microsoft Word or the like, and one should follow the tutorial videos to understand how the folder/editor/notes system works, and then how best to make it all work for you.

The developer and the community are excellent, the app has never once crashed on me and it's a veritable bargain.