On the right side of the editor, you have your Synopsis file, where you can quickly define what this file is about (a help when you’re organizing your outline, or writing your novel “out-of-order”). Decide later that you want to salvage it? No problem just restore it - Trash is just another folder, not the system’s trashcan. The binder also holds a Research file, where you can store links to other files, web pages, or just notes to oneself (though you can also use Comments to include reminders).ĭecide something is completely not working, and want to cast it aside? Throw the file into the Trash folder in Scrivener. On the left side is the project binder, where you can collect multiple files: scenes, chapters, journal/diary items - pretty much anything you want to include in a writing project.When the time comes to publish your book, choose what files to include from your binder and export to any of a bunch of file formats: Where you discover Scrivener’s power is in each of those sidebars. Soon you find a Heading style and other word processing features. The main window is the editor, and by default looks just like a typical text editor, but with some basic word processing features that is you can bold, underline and italicize text if you’re so inclined. Here’s what Scrivener looks like on Windows. I do make room for a few exceptions, though. Now I’m not typically crazy about proprietary, closed-source software. I snapped this deal up, and now I’m a fan. Then a few months ago, the tech deal site, AppSumo, sweetened the pot for me they cut the price to $20. Frugal guy that I am, I wondered what Scrivener could give me that I didn’t get from the free LibreOffice suite. But there was still a small barrier: the $40 price tag. It also runs on Linux via Wine, but that’s for another post. That detail changed some years ago, as Scrivener for Windows joined the party. Only problem was the durn thing only ran on Macintosh - the only PC operating system I didn’t know! For years I’d heard of Scrivener, a piece of software touted as the “ultimate writer’s tool.” Not just a word processor, more than a plain text editor Scrivener helped you organize all the stuff you wrote, all your research and goodness knows what else.
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