Hi! I’m new to Scrivener – using Scrivener 3 for Mac OS
Can’t find an intro video that helps. Can you recommend one?
Question - I have a manuscript written in text edit and Pages and I want to break it down into corkboard cards, how do I do that with Scrivener? Can’t seem to figure out the basic notion steps for making a storyboard (called a Corkboard in Scrivener). Would appreciate your help.
Welcome to the forums @greenlily and to Scrivener!
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support/video-tutorials?os=macOS
Scrivener has a built-in interactive tutorial project that you can work through. This is highly recommended for learning many things about how Scrivnener works and thinks about things, and learning it’s nomenclature.
To get your stuff from textEdit: the textEdit document is either plain text or is in RTF file format, so you can just drag and drop such a file into the Draft/Manuscript folder in the Binder area of an open Scrivener project. This will produce a new doc inside the Scrivener project with your text in it.
For the Pages document, first use Save As… to save it in [docx] format, then drag and drop that [docx] file into the Binder area of your Scriv project.
Then you will want to split those resulting scriv docs in the project up into beats or scenes or whatever. There is a command to split a doc at the current insertion point in the text. Each document in Scriv automatically has an associated index card. Voila!
If you haven’t already, I’d recommend taking a look at our Interactive Tutorial, available from the Help menu. It’s usually the best place to start.
After that, our video tutorial library is here:
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support/video-tutorials?os=macOS
For your specific question, we recommend exporting from Pages to Word, then importing the result to Scrivener. The Pages DOCX converter is better than its RTF converter. Once you have the material in Scrivener, the Documents → Split command is your friend.
