I also created a few utility folders in the Binder to help manage my blogging during 2018. To give you some idea what this looks like in practice, here’s the outline view for this blogpost as I was writing it. The outline view menu I like includes title (without icon or synopsis, for simplicity’s sake), label, status, created date and modified date, number of words, and target number of words. For blogging I use only the document and outline views. Scrivener lets you view the Binder’s contents in any one of three views: document view, which is for writing and editing cork-board view, which lets you see outlines of each text note like cards on virtual cork-board or outline view. The Scrivener Outline ViewĪt this stage I also customised the outline view’s menu bar. This makes it quick to set up a whole month of blank text notes that have the same target word counts and idea (or first draft) status. Using the contextual menu (control+mouse click) or documents>duplicate, or ⌘+D, you can duplicate the text menu and the metadata copies to the new text note.
During 2017 I posted about 4-6 times a month but I’d like to bring that back up to 10-12 in 2018, which was my average up until a few years ago.Įach text note has its own metadata, such as target word count, label and status (more on these later). I started with 10 text notes inside each month’s folder. This means one folder for every month of the year, inside of which individual text notes are created for each blogpost. I laid out the Binder in a calendar format, like an editorial brought forward file. Or, if you decide the piece you are currently working on might be better tackled later, you can move it within the order of the drafts you are working on. If you want to look up something you blogged about earlier in the year, you can just jump to the text note you wrote for that blogpost. This lets you jump quickly from anywhere in your project to anywhere else, and also to move things around on the fly. The Binder is the folder structure Scrivener creates to manage all the documents, or text notes, in your project. This time I took the opportunity to explore the new version 3.0 at the same time.
#How to upgrade scrivener to scrivener 3 update
Scrivener 3.0 is probably the most exciting and substantial update so far, staying close to all the things that have made Scrivener successful, while adding a fresh look and streamlined layout.Įvery December I create a new Scrivener project to manage all my blog writing for the coming year. Scrivener solves the problems that made creating and managing writing projects in word processing programmes, especially the creation of books and other long form undertakings, almost untenable.
I’ve been using Scrivener since 2007 and have enjoyed watching it grow from an unknown new programme to one of the most popular applications for authors and writers. Last week the latest major update to Scrivener, version 3.0, came out.
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