Causality is _fascinating_. It's effectively node-based flow programming for writers. Amazing stuff, truly brilliant. The price point is murder, though.
$279 as a one-shot without a built-in collaboration system? And the implication that it'll be an add-on for an upcharge later? My heart. A beautiful app -- but I'm a writer. Money is a kill-shot for any tools I use.
(Which is part of why so many treat tools like talent talismans. They cost too much to use to _not_ totally convince yourself they're magic. This leads to all kinds of unhealthy tool relationships.)
Though, to be fair, $72/yr isn't too terribly bad. The problem is that you have to assume you'll use it for over 3.8 years to be worth dropping the one-time tool cost. That's hard to justify.
$8/mo billed monthly is enough to get your feet wet if you really want to dig in, and I suppose that's a reasonable price point if I were going to be using it every day -- but I don't know if I'm going to, if doing so will help me with my actual work, nor do know of a community.
(Short version: Pricing is hard. It's harder if your audience is writers. Writers are, by and large and almost by definition, poor bastards. The ones who're rich already have tools they got rich with.)
Compare to Scrivener, which is in the same kind of notional space, and runs a flat one-time cost of $50. That includes the next version as well, though not all versions in perpetuity. It's a lot easier spike to take.
And a lot easier to excuse to your SO/partner/family in spending when your manuscript/spec script still isn't done two years later.
I'm _probably_ going to pop for a few months of Causality because there's no other tool really like it and, despite the pitch, the free trial only lets you write up 10 pages of content for a script with no shared access with others.
This is looking like a problem when @RoamResearch is talking about $15/mo for continuing access at some point in the near future.
Like I said, pricing is hard. Being a broke-ass writer who moves between freelance journalism, prose fiction, game design, and screenplays is also hard.
Yes, I love and am fascinated by tools. All kinds of tools. I love the process of making things and exploring ideas, and finding new things to do that with gives me joy. Sharing them with other folks pleases me, too.
Now if we can just all get together in the same fiscal space , I'll be pretty satisfied.
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