New to most of this. Am interested in the Scrivener product capabilities.
Taking a stab at writing some articles as well as a non fiction book.
I currently use Word and OneNote to accumulate and organize my data, references and resources.
OneNote contains a fairly elaborate outline of all the storie attributes.
I also have ywriter but see no practicle value to me.
Questions:
Can I import the OneNote outline to Scrivener or should I want to?
What are the formats Scrivener will read, edit and save/export to?
If I move to Scrivener will it replace OneNote or will I need to utilize both?
Thank you
wickiup
RE: OneNote
1.As far as I know, Scrivener does not import OneNote Files (.one) because I don’t think it’s been programmed in as a recognized file type.
I personally still use both OneNote and Scrivener. I don’t think that it’s an either or situation. Ultimately, it’s going to come down to what works best for you and your writing process. You may still want to use OneNote alongside Scrivener, you may find that OneNote is no longer necessary if Scrivener has all of the functionality you need. That being said, I would strongly recommend you read the manual to look at what Scrivener can do. Then you can make an informed decision by judging how that works with your writing process. You’ll also find a lot of the information you’re asking for in the manual (specifically Question 2 and maybe 1 as far as outlining capabilities in Scrivener goes). If you still have any questions afterwards, leave a message and I’m sure someone will be happy to help.
You might find this blog to be useful:
takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2011/05/onenote.html
The easiest way to import/export via Scriv is to use RTF files.
That is, for materials you want in the Draft folder for text-editing.
The Research folder will accept many other file types.
Those you would be viewing, especially in split-windows.
Thanks for the info.
ON did a good job for me as I accumulated bits and pieces of data, etc…
It has the MS ailment of just not going far enough.
Have been playing with Scrivener but the concept is a bit new to me and it appears the Windows version has not been accorded the attention the Mac version is. Not certain I will bite on it. The price is totally right but it will consume a lot of time to get set up and get to speed. If I could be assured it will soon be enhanced with more of the functions of the Mac verion it would be more attractive.
Again thanks
wickiup
Scrivener was originally built for the Mac and only released for Windows last year, so it’s not a question of “not being accorded the attention” (with all those connotations of neglect), but simply of not being so far down the development line.
The Windows version has equivalent features to (indeed is slightly enhanced upon) the Mac Version 1.5, which was itself highly praised and was used by many writers (professional and otherwise) for organising data, references and resources. (NB: it’s not a general database though – the data / references etc are kept per project). It’s not so far advanced as the Mac version, but it is perfectly usable for this – although of course no software tool suits absolutely everybody’s workflow…
However, the developers have explicitly stated that the aim is feature parity with the current Mac version (2.2), and exactly as much effort is going into this as it did for the Mac. There’s one programmer working full-time on the Windows version – which is exactly the same as the Mac version (although it’s a different person… )
With those thoughts in mind I will hang in there and continue to get familiar with it.
Not able at the present to devote all of my time to it but the trial time peramiters are quie generous.
Thanks
wickiup
I have finally answered my question and will begin using Scrivener quite soon.
This decision is made after spending most of two and a half days reading reviews, opinions and this forum plus watching a couple of dozen videos.
The deciding factor was the 35 minute video presented by ScreenCastsOnline and the great descriptive short videos by davidj13.
It took a bit to get the hang of the terminology and sequence of actions but will serve my various projects very well.
Thanks for all the help and I will probably be back
wickiup