Scrivener 3 screenshots
Now I’m going to drag some sections inside it, I’ll do the same for my other sections, you can structure your writing however you want even nesting folders inside folders. The new folder will be created below whatever is selected in the binder, I’ll give it a name and drag it where I want. To create a new folder, I just click on the add folder button. For this, I’m going to arrange them into folders. I now think that for this book it would be better to have several sections in each chapter. My initial plan was that each of these sections would be a single short chapter, but I’ve changed my mind. Once I finish, I just hit escape to return to the main window. If I want to block out the rest of my screen while I write, I can click on the full-screen composition button. To move between the sections of my project what I need to do is select the section in the binder to open it in the editor. You can always recognize them from their special icons though. Incidentally, you can rename any of these three folders and the draft folder is titled manuscript in some of the project templates. They stay there until you delete them permanently by choosing to empty the trash. The Trash folder stores any documents that you have deleted from a project.
#SCRIVENER 3 SCREENSHOTS PDF#
Over in the finder, I have a PDF file containing some information about a town I’ll be writing about and a photo of one of the town’s landmarks, I’ll just drag those into my research folder like so. In fact, I have a couple of files that I know I’m going to need to refer to later, so I think I’ll bring those in now. You can put pretty much anything in here PDF files, images, notes, anything you need to reference while working on your project. Supporting material that’s not part of the manuscript, you can place in the research folder. All the different sections in this folder can be printed or exported as a single long document. The draft folder is the most important, this is where you create your actual manuscript or text. You can add as many folders as you want, and we’ll get to that in a moment, but these folders are special. Note that every Scrivener project contains three folders that are always there. Talking of the binder, let’s take a quick look at it. I just drag and drop it into place in the binder. Not only that, I’ve also realized what the section I split off would be more effective if it came first, that’s easy to fix too. I just put my cursor where I want to split it and go to documents, split at selection. Actually, you know what, I’ve realized that this section would work better as two separate sections, that’s easy to fix.
I can add a title and now I’m ready to start typing out my new section. To do so, I click on the Add button and I get another blank document beneath whatever was selected in the binder. Here I’ve written one short section and I now want to create another. It’s entirely up to you how large or small those chunks are, you could divide your work up into chapters, scenes, paragraphs, arguments, or anything else. One of the key ideas behind Scrivener is that it’s easier to work on a long text if you break it down into smaller more manageable chunks.
I like working with page view turned off though. If you prefer writing on virtual pages, you can switch to page view. You can format your text however you want using the familiar tools in the format bar above the editor or by using the menus or keyboard shortcuts. I can go ahead and start writing in the editor.
Not just the writing itself, but also research, notes, and anything else you want to refer to. On the left here there’s a list showing all the documents in the project, we call this the Binder because it acts like a ring binder, you throw into it everything you need to get your writing done. Once that’s done, Scrivener’s main project window appears and I’m ready to start writing. It’s up to you where you keep your Scrivener projects so be sure to pick somewhere you’ll remember. Here, I’m going to choose blank, which will create an empty project without any template information. There are templates for novels, scripts, academic writing, and more. To create a new project, go to file, new project, you’ll see I’m presented with a window that allows me to choose from different project templates. First, let’s fire up Scrivener and create a new project. In this video, I’m going to show you how easy it is to use Scrivener for your writing, and how it’s useful for working on long documents.
Transcript: Hello, I’m Keith Blount the creator of Scrivener. This training is provided by Literature & Latte, creators of Scrivener. This is everything you need to know to get up and running with Scrivener 3 in ten minutes.