Scrivener - a program for writers
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Scrivener - is a word processor and project management tool designed for people who have to work with large amounts of text. First of all, the app will interest the authors of books, writers, researchers, teachers, journalists. In some program competes c Journler (see. our review), The main difference is that Scrivener allows you to work only with text and you can not record audio and videozametki.
Scrivener is of interest to a greater extent, it is as a data organizer. You can make any number of projects (eg, the project - a book). Within each project, create a folder in which data is grouped. For example, a folder can be part of the book, which includes separate chapters already.
Any work on the book requires research, study additional material. Create a new project in the Scrivener, you automatically get the Research folder where you can store additional data. It can be not only text notes, but also PDF, audio, images.
If we compare with Scrivener Journler, we can distinguish the following benefits and features:
- The program can not only keep statistics on the document. You can specify the desired amount of text, and Scrivener will show your progress (how much is left to complete). Writers should motivate to work; :)
- The program is best thought-out work with typography. Instead of "quotes-feet," you can use the "Christmas trees";
- Sitting comfortably work with links to sources. You can see Documents References to prescribe links to local papers and the URL of the web;
- For each document can prescribe a synopsis - a summary. Then these pieces of text are placed on a special board in the form of leaflets. All this is reminiscent of the real work on the book, not the virtual one.
Scrivener has automatically storing the text, so that the data will not be lost in case of power failure. But what is even more important - is the availability of system snapshots (snapshot). With their help, you can have multiple versions of a document and, if necessary, to do a "rollback" to an older edition. Snepshoty can be done for all notes, as well as for individual tracks. The only thing that confuses - the need to make snepshoty (ie not automatically).
It is like the full-screen mode. Turning to him, the writer can concentrate on the essentials, writing a novel. And all other windows just is not visible. Conveniently.
In general, I liked the Scrivener. More logical and comfortable interface, nothing more (such as built-in blog client, being able to do videozametki etc.), focusing on the main - working with text.
The program costs $ 39.95But online free early beta version is available - Scrivener Gold.