I found Scrivener a steep climb at first, because I didn’t know what I didn’t know. The software was clearly far more advanced than an outline in Word. From this start, I learned that the document in a folder metaphor was the core design. Over the years when I’d get stuck in programs, if I asked myself, “What did the designer think I’d be doing at this moment? What is the next process I can reach from here?” The software always bailed me out.
I would use Scrivener for a bit, go back to the Tutorial, bookmarking chapters as the “aha!” moments came, and then gone back and rearranged as I learned.
One of my favorite Scrivener features is building and saving several saved Workspaces that I switch between as needed. It’s made Scrivener feel customized to me and helped order my workflow progression.
I found Scrivener a steep climb at first, because I didn’t know what I didn’t know. From this start, I learned that the document in a folder metaphor was the core design. Over the years when I’d get stuck in programs, if I asked myself, “What did the designer think I’d be doing at this moment? What is the next process I can reach from here?” The software always bailed me out.
I would use Scrivener for a bit, go back to the Tutorial, bookmarking chapters as the “aha!” moments came, and then gone back and rearranged as I learned.
One of my favorite Scrivener features is building and saving several saved Workspaces that I switch between as needed. It’s made Scrivener feel customized to me and helped order my workflow progression.
Thank you PE
Thank you PE
I suggest you use V2 for Windows and limit yourself to the blank template to start with. This gives you draft, research and trash folders.
Play around with that, until you are familiar with the functions. You can then start to add on more bells and whistles as you need.
ta Ta - and where does V2 exist?
There is no Version 2 for Windows, and will not be. Windows Scrivener will be skipping directly to Version 3.
The current Windows release version uses the Mac Scrivener 2 project format, which is the most convenient way to work cross-platform.
Other than that, I think talktidy has good advice.
Katherine
I understand the next release of beta v3 is due before Sept 30. Anybody know anything about this and how one gets it?
This post will be updated when the new beta is released: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-3-0-beta-release-candidate-10-download-links-change-list/38228/1
Katherine
And at this point b9 is released.