Help!
I am using a version of Scrivener I purchased for the first time in 2012. I have never used it. Where/How do I begin??
The interactive tutorial under the help menu.
Hi.
It would be a good idea to specify that you are running Scrivener V1 in your user profile for next time you post a question. Most users here now run Scrivener-3, which will most certainly otherwise bring confusion and wrong answers.
Thank you. I’ll make it a point to include V1. If they are up to three, I’m wondering it it is worth it to even start. No doubt I’ll have to pay for a basic upgrade and more. I’ve been hearing good things about Plottr. If I have to start at square one, I might as well pick one I’ll use.
I guess it depends what you want to do writing-wise.
From my understanding and the little I know of it (I don’t use it), Plottr is an outlining app, not a writing app per se. (They even advertise that once you are ready to write, you can export your outline to Scrivener…)
What it does you don’t need a dedicated app for (for outlining) once you are comfortable with the way Scrivener works. (My humble opinion.)
I just checked, there is also that Plottr is a subscription. The basic version would cost you more or less per year the equivalent of Scrivener’s single payment license.
(I am not affiliated with Literature & Latte.)
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As @Vincent_Vincent wrote, Plottr is an outlining app, so not directly comparable to Scrivener.
Plottr is a little nicer to use if you’re in the phase where you have to move things around a lot but haven’t really written anything yet. But then again, you can move things around easily in Scrivener once you have. I tend to use Plottr for some projects but start in Scrivener for others. I even wrote a script to export things back from Scrivener into Plottr for cases where I needed to redo things a lot. Plottr has a Scrivener import built in now, I see, but I haven’t tested it yet.
Give it a try. It may or may not be a good companion app, depening on how you work. Oh, and it also has a lifetime license if (like me) you don’t like subscriptions. They also do the occasional discount, e.g. during that time of the year with the turkeys 