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To avoid getting overwhelmed, Scrivener has a wide range of icons which you can assign to
individual files and folders. Think of a Collection like a filtered view that lets you highlight only the
documents or notes you want to see. The Binder Depending on whether or not you use a pre-existing
template, you’ll have at least three folders in your Binder to begin with: Draft, Research, and Trash.
It’s such a shame that there isn’t an appetite to give scrivener a proper citation solution. Create
storyboard folders in this mode specifically for the purpose of rearranging ideas and drafts
corkboard-style, or outline your main draft folder using this view mode. However, even if you are
not a student, you will likely want to request feedback from some readers to see how others take up
the material. It offers huge choices when it comes to the formatting of the export, but, and this is a
huge strength of Scrivener, it won’t ask you about it until you want to export your text. Microsoft
Word and Apple Pages both have pretty good page layout features and can make documents look
nice and standardized. Search for articles, save them in a folder with some kind of descriptive name,
likely print them out to read (before the days of tablets!), write the manuscript in Word, add in
references manually. I modified an existing template for my PhD thesis but have, and will continue
to, use 3rd party templates for drafting journal publications. The free Mendeley web account allows
me to access my papers across all of my devices seamlessly. I still use Word, but only for final
formatting, and I haven’t changed from that because it just works for me I guess. How to Write
Distraction-Free in Scrivener A writer loves nothing more than hitting their flow—that state where
you’re totally consumed with \ writing and everything just works. You can review the available
styles on their website, or even make your own. With Scrivener, you can open two parts of the
outline side-by-side (or top and bottom) in the main window. You may feel tempted to click through
each comment bubble in Word or Google Docs and fix the sentence highlighted by each comment.
She’s now pursuing an academic career as a Postdoc in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) as part
of an EU project. Because I keep my bibliography in a Circus Ponies Notebook file, I am used to
copy-pasting references into the article manually. Click once in the pane you want to navigate, then
click in the Binder to select a web page, note, or document. With Word or Google Docs, you just
share the exact file you’ve been working on. Writing in a team? You might want to write your own
copy in Scrivener, then bring it together with your team's work in one of the best collaborative
writing apps —including our team's favorite, Google Docs. Figure out the themes, moments, arcs, or
details that are most important for you to track, then create a keyword or metadata system that makes
it easy for you to find those later. While it’s essential to split novels or nonfiction book projects into
chapters and scenes, it’s also helpful for projects like longform articles. You can view each main
topic in the outline as an “index card” that can be moved around on a virtual table, you can view a
more complex outline with multiple columns tracking different bits of information about each topic,
and you can view the main text area solely with all the other parts of the interface blacked out. Or a
more complicated structure for a dissertation (see image). Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor and
many conferences provide templates for Overleaf, making it easy to format the text in the conference
format. Sometimes, readers will not be interested to see the feedback of others, or may find those
comments distracting as they read. You can even add an image background behind the text editor
that inspires or relaxes you. The next section describes the varying options for saving and managing
versions. With these applications, you need to do an extra step or two to produce a “doc” file or PDF
file.
Additionally, Scrivener comes with many customization options (that you can completely ignore if
you wish) for setting the fonts, styles, and other layout options for the exported file. Or a PDF for a
research article on one side and your draft on the other. I dedicated 2 days to learning about its
features, and then off I went. If you need to return to an earlier version, you can Roll Back a
document to a Snapshot version with just one click. Use a virus scanner, keep your firewall up, and
act sensible to protect your computer. Would appreciate some insight as to how you manage this.
You can also do this with folders, then select a Corkboard or Outline View Mode to view your
project outline while you write. Got an idea what you have to mention in the Discussion section for
Question 2. Under the View menu, in the dropdown Layout, you’ll find the option to split the
writing pane either horizontally or vertically. By default, the format is to say “CHAPTER
NUMBER” followed by a line break and then the title of the chapter. You can also adjust Corkboard
settings to display keyword color markers, status stamps, and card number. You may want to reject a
comment, even if you plan on addressing it, if you don’t need or want to see it while revising. You
can also open an older version in a new window, or compare two different versions. This allows me
to search through articles, find the paper, and see my notes with ease. Split each section into its own
document so you can more easily manage your editing process. If you end up rearranging the order
of these chunks significantly, you might benefit from writing in a different kind of application, one
that puts “chunks” at the forefront. The best part is that this metadata is completely customizable.
Scrivener also has a Typewriter Mode, which will make your text scroll up while you write, keeping
your focus always on the same line. Composition Mode One of Scrivener’s best features is its
composition mode. A comment on page 12 of the Word file your instructor read may appear in
section 3.4 in your outline in Scrivener. One method is to use page 1 of your document to create a
table documenting the key changes in any given version, then to use a consistent file naming
scheme. Now I use Mendeley to organise my references, and Scrivener for writing. To do this, you
need to use the “combine” feature in Word. After getting that section written up, it might be more
clear what has to come first, or where the paper has to develop from there. Now that you have the
basics down, you can explore all the other features Scrivener has to offer. Whether it’s just a matter
of rich text vs Markdown, or whether you are doing a project that requires complex
formatting—such as a novel or a thesis—Scrivener is here to help. As with Scrivener in general, this
feature doesn’t work with a complete document, but with each chunk. Someone recommended it
when you are using a lot of footnotes, but I haven’t tried it out yet. Click once in the pane you want
to navigate, then click in the Binder to select a web page, note, or document. With Snapshots, you
can instantly save the current version of the document working in (in its entirety), and refer back to it
later.
Often, we can’t really know whether a new take on a sentence or section will “work” until we’ve
written it out. However, I have also heard good things about Mellel. So whether you need to
reference notes, or add notes or comments as you write, you can quickly do so without leaving
Composition Mode. You can then search or review documents with these fields specifically. The
project keeps all your work in one place, meaning you can easily organise your thoughts and record
any research in the section they’re relevant to. Later, after the document structure is mostly set, you
could transition to making changes directly in Word and no longer work in Scrivener. It helps to
highlight cited literature in the Scrivener files — it does not offer a Multindex like Circus Ponies
Notebook does, but it is useful none-the-less. Therefore, this section will simply present several
common writing applications and detail how you can create and use versions with each one. With all
three of these applications, this process is fairly straightforward but does require a bit of thought. Or
a more complicated structure for a dissertation (see image). Use the title version, for example,
“changed the baseline of the results to the visitors who actually used the device”, and you know
what changed between the versions you have save. While Corkboard Mode is fantastic for
brainstorming and initially organizing or storyboarding a project, Outline Mode gives visibility to a
lot of important data for writers who are drafting or revising. You can setup custom compile
parameters regarding page breaks, fonts, styles. Keywords can be added to documents to group
themes, settings, and ideas. Check out our in-depth guide to Ulysses, a simpler, Markdown-focused
alternative to Scrivener, or check out the Zapier team's favorite writing apps especially for writing in
teams. Get productivity tips delivered straight to your inbox Subscribe We’ll email you 1-3 times per
week—and never share your information. Scrivener, as a typical Apple product, offers you the
necessary things — not more. Instead of creating a new version of the document (and wondering in
which version the golden sentence is days later), you can simply create a snapshot of the part you are
working on. I can search within Mendeley for literature, or drop a PDF in my watched folder. What
is the best template to set up a thesis import in Scrivener. As a default, the outline displays document
title, document synopsis, labels, and status. From novels to non-fiction to thesis projects to long-
form articles, Scrivener is an excellent tool for gathering a lot of thoughts and information into
something cohesive and usable. You can see that hierarchy in the Binder on the left, and on the right
the dashed line is how a break between documents looks in Scrivenings mode. If I have serious
writing with footnotes, I use Mellel. And that you can do anything with LaTeX if you want to. From
this manager, you can see any snapshots made of the selected chunk, along with their names. You
can adjust this window to reflect wordcount goals (total and per session), as well as deadlines. This
will allow you to document differences if “track changes” doesn’t work for some reason (or if you’re
not using it) and it will preserve comments if you need to review them later. The next section
describes the varying options for saving and managing versions. Create storyboard folders in this
mode specifically for the purpose of rearranging ideas and drafts corkboard-style, or outline your
main draft folder using this view mode. This is the main folder to export at the end of the project,
the place where you’ll keep the writing part of your writing.
If you select an older snapshot, you can “compare” it with the current version and the differences
will be shown in color in the manager. This window lets you know the total word count of your
document, as well as how many words you’ve written during this particular session. But did I
mention that Scrivener is extremely easy to use. Word offers “word count” — Scrivener offers
“Project Statistics”, “Text Statistics”, and “Project Targets”. “Project Statistics” gives you the
amount of words, characters, and the amount of pages the text takes (according to your specified
characteristics). “Text statistics” does the same with the part you are currently working on. “Project
Targets” lets you set the number of words (or characters) you want to write and shows you how far
you are from reaching that goal. This will show you all the snapshots you’ve taken for that document.
I think your method is the only really viable path forward at this point. You can then view them in
the Inspector. (More on snapshots later.) Comments and Footnotes. Before you revise the
introduction example to something different, you can choose “name current version” and give it a
meaningful name (e.g., “old intro example”) then when you’ve made the change, you can name the
version again (e.g., “new intro example”). It helps to highlight cited literature in the Scrivener files
— it does not offer a Multindex like Circus Ponies Notebook does, but it is useful none-the-less. By
choose “only show named versions” you remove these automatically saved versions from the list.
Great for rewriting — you can always seen and compare what you had written here previously.
Luckily, Scrivener makes it easy for you to write in Markdown and convert to other formats with just
a couple of clicks. The zoom level and width of your writing pane are adjustable, so play around and
find the size that works for you. Corkboard Mode Scrivener provides three ways to view your
documents: The default Document editor, along with Corkboard and Outline views. Here you’ll find
options for expanding certain features, as well as for adjusting your visuals. Other apps may display
outlines and chunks, but often in an interface that looks more like a data-entry program. Once I
export to MS Word, then I go through the document replacing all of these placeholders with the Cite
While You Write feature, ensuring it gets added to the reference list correctly. If you need to return to
an earlier version, you can Roll Back a document to a Snapshot version with just one click. Scrivener
also has a Typewriter Mode, which will make your text scroll up while you write, keeping your focus
always on the same line. That way you can try out a few different tools and get a feel for whether
you find this method useful without the pressure of needing to make progress on a more important
and complex project. And yes, I know there are some Shareware programs for Windows that aspire
to do the same. This works surprisingly well when you need to get words down on paper. The author
nor DiscoverPhDs are affiliated with Scrivener, nor any of its subsidiaries. However, you can also
see this meta information in the corkboard view. You can also add footnotes, which will later be
properly formatted and included when you Compile your project (more on that later, too). A
comment on page 12 of the Word file your instructor read may appear in section 3.4 in your outline
in Scrivener. There were days where I just couldn’t face looking at the literature review section
again, and so I focused on my methodology, or introduction. This will allow you to document
differences if “track changes” doesn’t work for some reason (or if you’re not using it) and it will
preserve comments if you need to review them later. If you’re not used to working this way, it can
feel odd at first. When the hard drive goes, it take everything with it, which includes different files
saved on different partitions if they are on the same physical medium (analogy: if Earth goes up in
smoke, it doesn’t matter whether you are in France or Spain).