Speare | Thought organizing programs?

To be honest, it seems like one more aspect of micromanaging with an online app that you can do just as easily with an analog set-up (pen/paper) or create notes on your phone if you're away from the keyboard that can easily be transferred via email or Dropbox for later use. And keeping it entirely online doesn't sound like such a great idea because these things tend to disappear when you least expect it (hello, Facebook outage this week, anybody?) Hard pass from me but YMMV.

Here's the Speare Website. It's pricey, in my book; partly because it's subscription based, so you have to keep paying ($4.95/month paid annually).

It's not really unique. It does automatically sync on multiple devices (Web, iOS, Android, etc.).

You could do pretty much everything it does with cards/sticky notes/paper.

Other apps to look at:

Bear.app (iOS and macOS)

Ulysses

Scrivener

Any number of mindmapping and outlining apps.

The basic idea behind Speare is helping writings with prewriting, with the rhetorical stage known as invention (generating and organizing ideas).

Freewriting and brainstorming are techniques that Speare uses, but you could use any text editor or word processor or pencil and paper to accomplish the same thing, using the same techniques.

Seconding the suggestion that Scrivener will be a brilliant help: I've written lots of books and have tried lots of different softwares, and the only ones I regularly use now are Word and Scriv. Great, both of them.