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Introducing Scrivener 3

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Re: Introducing Scrivener 3

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Post by kendallpark »

abtinf wrote: post #31

Anyone used scrivener and found it a useful tool for general note taking, a personal wiki, or getting things done? From the website, it looks like many of their features would be useful as a general work support tool, despite the emphasis on writing.

During college I wrote many essays and half a novella in Scrivener. It fit my style of writing, which is horribly non-linear. My novella required a lot of world-building and I appreciated Scrivener's dedicated section for notes and images relating to each story.

I think my best use of Scrivener was to take notes on taxonomy in biology class, making good use of nested documents. By the end of that class I had a huge chunk of the tree of life filled out. I think something like workflowy would be more apt at this task right now, but it was fantastic at the time. That said, workflowy has terrible support for images.

Re: Introducing Scrivener 3

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Post by ako »

rayalez wrote: post #33

For screenwriting I highly recommend checking out emacs fountain mode [1] (plus imenu-list and Olivetti minor modes). In combination with org-mode it is the most powerful writing/outlining tool you can imagine. Also, if you haven't tried them, I highly recommend checking out WorkFlowy [2], Gingko [3], or Nulis [4] (disclaimer - nulis is my own project). Outlining and organizing projects as a tree structure is insanel…

If you need to edit text in a tree structure, ms-word outline mode is a really good option. Info here: http://www.dummies.com/software/microsoft-office/word/how-to...

Re: Introducing Scrivener 3

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Post by ako »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #32
hitekker wrote: post #20

It's a terrible shame that Scrivener 3 drops support for El Capitan. I want to try but upgrading my entire OS would be quite a hassle.

Might as well start thinking about upgrading anyway. If the past is an indicator, Apple will likely stop releasing security updates for El Capitan in a bit less than a year.

Still happily running an iMac 24" from 2008 (harddrive replaced with an SSd). Apple considers this hardware too old for macOs Sierra.

Probably will need to upgrade it to Windows 10 to keep it up to date.

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Post by bewe42 »

Even more amazing is a little tool called Scapple from the same author. I use it to brainstorm and collect thoughts. Absolutely love it and I read that they plan to update it as well. Can't wait.

Re: Introducing Scrivener 3

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Post by unixhero »

zhubert wrote: post #38
jimnotgym wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry to be that guy ...could there be a Linux version one day? I feel unclean if I have to start Windows

There definitely could be, it might not even be that hard. I'll add it to my Trello for investigation.

+1

My mum uses Linux and is a writer and wants Scrivener (yes, Linux is mainstream).

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Post by pseingatl »

unixhero wrote: post #76
zhubert wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There definitely could be, it might not even be that hard. I'll add it to my Trello for investigation.

+1 My mum uses Linux and is a writer and wants Scrivener (yes, Linux is mainstream).

There used to be a Linux version. You can still find it, it's v.1.6 or so (predating v.2), needs 32-bit libraries and is unsupported. But you can get it running. The problem is if you bring the project file into a new version it will convert the file format and there's no going back.

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Post by innocentoldguy »

abtinf wrote: post #31

Anyone used scrivener and found it a useful tool for general note taking, a personal wiki, or getting things done? From the website, it looks like many of their features would be useful as a general work support tool, despite the emphasis on writing.

I highly recommend Scrivener for any project that has words. It is a great project management tool for taking and organizing notes, research projects, wiki writing, blog writing, journals, college papers, novels, GTD lists, etc. Personally, I think the most useful features cork board, the research folder, tags, and the formatter, but there are many other tools in Scrivener that make managing projects easy, regardless of size.

Scrivener also supports plugins, so 3rd-party companies can make templates and other tools for it. For example, if you like Randy Ingermanson's Snowflake Method of writing, you can get a Scrivener template that uses the Snowflake Method to help structure/outline your writing.

Finally, Literature & Latte is a great company to work with. They are responsive to questions and issues, and seem to really care about their customers.

Re: Introducing Scrivener 3

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Post by innocentoldguy »

crooked-v wrote: post #14

I'm sad they still don't have any real support for plain text or Markdown editing.

Scrivener isn't a word processor or editor as much as it is a project management tool for writing. The point is that you just focus on your writing as you use the tool and then compile it to whatever format you want, including plain text and MultiMarkdown. While Scrivener does support some level of formatting in the editor, that's mostly for convenience as you work with it, as far as I can tell. The final format of the output of the project occurs when you compile it.

I hope that helps.

Re: Introducing Scrivener 3

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Post by tragic »

technofiend wrote: post #69

Before anyone says wouldn't it be great if there was a Linux version, Literature and Latte had one for more than a year. They discontinued it after less than 10 licenses sold. Perhaps that was because of the separate code base for each platform which meant in the previous versions the UI and feature set varied. L & L claim the Windows and MacOS versions will have the same UI but the fact version 3.x wasn't released f…

The windows version has worked fine with Wine up to now anyway, so hopefully that won't change in V3.
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