Scrivener has been on my mind since Greg van Eekhout mentioned it. And even before that Tricia Sullivan had piqued my interest in such software, Story View in her case.

I downloaded Scrivener last night, and then wrote the following on Tricia Sullivan's blog:

I ran through the tutorial last night.

My fiction output hasn't ventured much beyond short stories yet, so it might be a while before it's larger organizational tools, but the simple things excite me. I absolutely love being able to "tag/keyword" various segments. I love it's simple "snapshot" versioning system. I love the ability to place images side by side with writing segments. I love how slick it's full screen mode is (custom paper width, "typewriter" functionality that keeps current text in the center of the screen, and custom alpha for the part of the screen not covered by the page.) Also you can set a word count target for each segment.

I'm a software developer, and I've toyed for years with the idea of using various development environments for prose generation, and Scrivener offers pretty much all the tools I'd want. This may be the tool that'll convince me to write something a little bit more ambitious.