Scrivener also ships with a friendly tutorial packaged as a Scrivener writing project that walks you step-by-step through the most important features.

First, the good news: Scrivener, the beloved Mac word processor, has been released for Windows as a beta. Now the bad news: The Windows version is frustrating enough to make you want to cry.

Scrivener is famous in the Macintosh world, and has a free open beta for its Windows version.