What is a great ebook for learning WinScriv 3? I purchased “Scrivener 3 for Windows” by Robert Roughton but find it disorganized. He just gets down to certain modes or features and provides instructions on what to do. But there was very little “why do this” sort of thing. I still can’t see the big picture. Apparently, Scrivener has modes in which it can operate. What are those modes? What is the purpose of each mode? And how do they all fit together? I need that logic before I can get down to using the program.
Have you tried the official Interactive Tutorial, from the Help menu, yet?
I don’t know precisely what is meant by modes, but the features that do use that word refer to how one might view a collection of things in the main view. Say for example you shift-click on ten items in the left sidebar, would you want to view them on a corkboard, or as a list with columns of data, or all of the text combined together? These are view modes. I wouldn’t say they are modes that change Scrivener, they just different ways of viewing things—like icon vs list view in File Explorer / Finder.
I wrote the book pretty much the way the average user would use Scrivener (and customize it for their use case), and (hopefully) follow the process from install, setup, write, compile.
Yours is the first comment I’ve seen of this nature, feedback has been universally positive.
All that said, I do invite feedback in the book, and if you could be a little more detailed in your feedback in what you actually need, I’m happy to consider it for the next revision.