However, I do think that plugins (and maybe exposing some functions to AppleScript and Automator) could open up whole new vistas of possibility for us Scrivener users, whole new avenues of creativity with our binders and our documents and our formatting choices. I can almost see why it would be a sucky endeavor. The dev would have to add “reviewing another batch of ^%#! plugins!” to his daily list of things to do, as well as would have to keep track of which plugin broke what and why, and whenever someone needed support, the dev would have to ensure that all their plugins were copacetic and behaving properly, as well as “authorized” by the dev team. Then it would have to work right and behave itself all over again, as though it were only version 1 again. First off, the whole app would probably have to be rethought and recoded (don’t know for sure, just guessing). Of course, thinking it through a bit more, I’m sure that from the developer’s perspective, this would probably be a living nightmare. what if I could take it upon myself to learn to code in Objective-C (or whatever language Scrivener is written in), and I could implement these features all on my lonesome? If Scrivener accepted “plug-ins”, I bet I could knock a Citation Manager out of the park! And, the developer could do what Apple does with Apps – he could review each plugin, or at least some of them, and then feature them on the website! How awesome would THAT be? So it then occurred to me, after my latest post full of wishful-thinking. I keep on posting all these various wish-lists for future features on here, and the one thing I keep having to remind myself of is that Scrivener is the work of one (very talented!) developer, and though talented the dev might be, he cannot make Scrivener all things to all people, or he would never actually get any real work done doing all the usual under-the-hood stuff that developers gotta do: making core improvements, squishing bugs dead, communicating with users, and all that jazz. This has probably been asked before, BUT:
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