10/2/2023 0 Comments Scapple and scrivener integration![]() My 642 color-coded index cards work just fine. That’s what Post-It Notes, folders, books and journals are for.ĭon’t you have so many post-it notes stuck to your monitor that your view of those lovely words you’re writing is infringed? Aren’t you distracted from your latest plot twist when the ones that have been stuck there the longest lose their stickiness and float onto your keyboard? Don’t you waste a lot of time paging through all those journals and file folders, looking for the one nugget you wrote down on some napkin that will fully sketch out your antagonist? 5. I’ve got everything organized in folders and bookmarked in my browser.Īnd you can put your cursor on the proper folder every time, right? No hunting around, trying to recall which folder it’s in and where you filed it? No futile searches that won’t cough up the third chapter you discarded but now realize is better? And you never burrow down into the internet rabbit hole when you’re reviewing your bookmarks, right? Your research before Scrivener: Folders, notes and books galore © 2016Ĥ. I’ve been using Word forever.Īnd it never crashes on you, does it? Never announces you need a critical security update the instant you launch it, though your head is ablaze with the fervor of a new plot line, and your fingers are poised to pound out the words that are flowing like raging floodwaters? 3. You’re afraid of learning something new? You’re a writer! You eavesdrop on conversations every chance you get, right? You dive into research like a pelican plunging into the ocean, don’t you? Aren’t you capable of losing yourself for days online just because you Googled one tiny stat for your blog? 2. While most photographers in our universe use Lightroom, I’ve found far fewer writers using Scrivener. Scrivener is equally impressive in its far-less-costly and much-less-resource-intensive way. I’m a believer in specific items suited to specific tasks-I’ve written much HERE about using Adobe Lightroom to tame the beast that is my image collection of 24,688 photographs, and I’m passionate about its merits. Better Than an iRobot Roomba: Everything in its place under the Scrivener roof © 2016 Scriv helps me store it all under one roof, and find it at a glance. No longer must I hunt for what I’ve gathered. ![]() Now that I’m researching my historical fiction novel as I write, I can’t imagine keeping it together without Scriv (my affectionate nickname for my beloved writing parter). We’ve been through some tough times together, and have always grown stronger for it. But this writing program has been my one love ever since. I came late to the Scrivener party, when I’d written half of my novel, A Habit of Hiding. Here’s why Scrivener can easily become your one love for organizing your research and writing.
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