Scrivener!yuvizalkow.com

Yuvi’s First Apology

Scrivener has an enormous number of features...Today we will only cover a small cross-section of features...

Vaguely Accurate Agenda

What isn’t Scrivener?What is Scrivener?Key conceptsLess obvious featuresWalkthroughs

Scrivener is not a word processor

What is Scrivener?

“Scrivener is aimed at writers of all kinds... who need to structure a long piece of text while referring to research documents.”

“Scrivener is a ring-binder, a scrapbook, a corkboard, an outliner and text editor all rolled into one.”

“Scrivener is intended to be a kind of ‘writer’s shed’ for those of us who don’t have a spare shed.”

What is Scrivener?

“One of the key philosophies behind Scrivener is that it shouldn’t try to force you into a particular workflow.”

“It is primarily intended to be a first draft tool... often you will want to take your draft to a dedicated word processor or layout program for final formatting.”

Scrivener is more important to me than my own family.[not really true but needed a third bullet...]

Scrivener Purchase Info

Available for both Mac and Windows(iPad coming soon!)

Available from the Literature and Latte website:http://literatureandlatte.com/

Available from the Mac app store

Free 30-day trial

$45 for a license

Student discount available

Tutorials!

Literature and Latte’s video tutorials: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/videos.php

Yuvi’s tedious one-hour video tutorial: http://yuvizalkow.com/videos/scrivener

Scrivener’s interactive tutorial:from the menu, select “Help > Interactive Tutorial...”

Scrivener’s manual:from the menu, select “Help > Scrivener Manual”

Scrivener Support:http://www.literatureandlatte.com/support.php

Key Concepts (1 of 2)

The BinderResearch The Four ViewsInspectorSearchCompiling

Key Concepts (2 of 2)

ToolbarsTitle, SynopsisLabel, StatusWriting TargetsSyncingPreferences

Less Obvious Features

Customizing Label & Status

Annotations, Comments, Highlights, FootnotesFormat menu

Document Notes, Project Notes

Snapshots, Change TrackingDocument menu

Collections

Split Screen

Other Notes

Learn the keyboard shortcuts!!!

• Scrivener Manual: Appendix A(also page 387 for creating your own shortcuts)

• http://scrivenerwriter.com/all-the/all-the-keyboard-shortcuts/

• Do a search for “Scrivener keyboard shortcuts”and you’ll find many other resources!

Walkthroughs

Creating a New Document

Importing into Scrivener

Outline or Mind MapImport into Scrivener

Using Label and Status

Compiling an Output

Q & A

the end

Import Hints

Format a temporary document as desired

Select Scrivener > Preferences > Formatting...

Click “Use Formatting in Current Editor”

Select File > Import... choose the document to import

Select Document > Convert > Formatting to Default Text Style

Use Document > Split to split the document into pieces

Label & Status Hints

Click a Label or Status in the Inspector and select Edit... This should open up a new window. Use this window to change the names and colors.

Use the View > Use Label Color In... menu to determine where you see the label colors.

Use View > Corkboard Options > Show Stamps to turn on the status stamp.