Anyone out there trying #elipsus #writing as an #author resource? I love #Scrivener, #Plottr and #Obsidian, especially the crazy mapping capabilities of Obsidian, but I saw a video by Kate Cavanaugh reviewing it and it looks pretty amazing so far.
#urbanfantasy #mystery #writer
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Open a document in another window by clicking on the Quick Reference icon in the toolbar (the box with the pencil).
Three great #Scrivener tricks for revision. You can mark every scene's status on every revision. Make a snapshot of a version before rewriting and compare it with other versions. And see the time and date you last worked on the individual document (not just the whole MS).
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Use ‘Project > Show Project Targets’ to set word and character count goals for your entire manuscript and for the current session.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: The Quick Search field in the toolbar shows progress bars if you have any Project Targets (‘Project > (Show) Project Targets’).
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: The Quick Search field in the toolbar shows progress bars if you have any Project Targets (‘Project > (Show) Project Targets’).
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Set up custom meta-data (‘Project > Project Settings…’) to add custom checkboxes, list boxes and text fields to the Inspector and outliner.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Set up custom meta-data (‘Project > Project Settings…’) to add custom checkboxes, list boxes and text fields to the Inspector and outliner.
#Scrivener 3 on Mac & Windows Tip of the Day: Holding down the Option/Alt key while clicking a triangle in the binder or outliner will expand everything inside the folder.
#Scrivener 3 on macOS & Windows Tip of the Day: Holding down the Option/Alt key while clicking a triangle in the binder or outliner will expand everything inside the folder.
#Scrivener 3 on macOS Tip of the Day: Holding down the Option/Alt key while dragging in the binder or outliner will disallow drop-ons, making dropping between items easier.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Open multiple documents in Quick Reference panels by dragging them onto the Quick Reference icon in the toolbar (the box with the pencil).
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: ‘Navigate > Reveal in Binder’ shows where the current document is located in the binder.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: You can set up full screen Composition Mode to look like an old-fashioned computer by playing with ‘Colors’ choices within ‘Appearance’ for ‘Composition Mode’ in Options… (on Windows) or Settings… (on Mac).
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Sort items in the outliner by clicking on a column header. Click again to reverse the sort, and once more to return to normal.
#Scrivener 3 on Mac & Windows Tip of the Day: To enter line breaks into synopses when editing in the corkboard or outliner, use Opt-return on macOS and Ctrl-return on Windows.
#Scrivener 3 on macOS & Windows Tip of the Day: To enter line breaks into synopses when editing in the corkboard or outliner, use Opt-return on macOS and Ctrl-return on Windows.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Assign custom icons to your folders and sections to make them easy to pick out using ‘Documents > Change Icon’.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Assign custom icons to your folders and sections to make them easy to pick out using ‘Documents > Change Icon’.
Now I don’t trust just hitting save in Scrivener and I’m going to go into paranoid backup mode every time I get up to get a glass of water FFS.
If anyone knows why this happened or how to recover lost work should this ever happen again (explain it to me like I'm 5), I'm all ears. #Scrivener
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Add footnotes and comments to your text using the Inspector.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: ‘Navigate > Clear All Navigation Options’ returns UI navigation to the default state, removing all locks and project navigation settings.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Create a custom project template by setting up a bare bones project as you wish and using ‘File > Save As Template…’.
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Create a custom project template by setting up a bare bones project as you wish and using ‘File > Save As Template…’.
Attention anyone running #Scrivener on #Linux via #Wine.
The YouTuber "Linux Author" has put together an (unauthorized) flatpak that automates the process so that you don't have to touch the Terminal or go through Lutris. And he's looking for beta testers!
You can find the project on GitHub […]
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Experiment with section order using the corkboard’s freeform mode (‘View > Corkboard Options > Freeform’).
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Experiment with section order using the corkboard’s freeform mode (‘View > Corkboard Options > Freeform’).
#Scrivener 3 on Mac Tip of the Day: You can customise all keyboard shortcuts in Scrivener and other Cocoa programs via ‘System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts…’.
The only thing Scrivener needs is better UI option for tables. I like to have my characters in one neat looking table instead of several parts.
The tables kinda look ugly...
#WritingCommunity #scrivener
#Scrivener 3 on macOS Tip of the Day: You can customise all keyboard shortcuts in Scrivener and other Cocoa programs via ‘System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts…’.
