TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Big thanks to the guys at Literature and Latte for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Scrivener is one of those Mac applications that feels very Mac-like to me—the geeky, made precisely for this kind of user because we are that user, kind of application. When I first became a Mac user in 2005, that’s what struck me most about it: the people making software for it did so because they really love the Mac, have some functionality they want to build for themselves in particular, and they want to do so in a way that honors what the Mac is all about. That’s still what I love about the Mac, and it’s something completely unique to it.

Scrivener is exactly that kind of application. If you’re a writer, or write decently long papers for school, take a look at Scrivener. They’ve built an application that’s for writers.

Writing a book or research paper is about more than hammering away at the keys until it’s done. Research, shuffling index cards to find that elusive structure – most software is only fired up after much of the hard work is completed.

Enter Scrivener, a content-generation tool that lets you compose and structure long and difficult documents based on material from multiple sources. Adopted by novelists, screenwriters, journalists, lawyers and academics alike, the program allows users to split the editor and view documents, PDF files, multimedia and other research materials next to each other. A virtual corkboard and outliner help with structuring or providing an overview of the draft. Collate, read and edit related text without affecting its place in the whole using Scrivener’s Collections feature. Close out the world in Full Screen mode. And when you’re finished, export to e-readers or the most popular word processing programs for submission.

Available for Mac OS X and Windows at Literature and Latte.