Oh my, my brethren, the scientific researcher writing their research paper was the archetypal Scrivener user used in today’s Apple announcement:
I totally need to up my research game, test tubes and tweezers on the desk next to a shiny new M4 with Scrivener is the way all scientists should write going forwards…
Scrivener in the Apple imaginarium supports 4 column writing layout in Scrivenings mode too, maybe only with an M4 Pro processor? 
That caught me by surprise this morning! Had to actually rewind the video to make sure I heard right. 
I looked, and I’m running 3.3.6, which was released over a year ago; and that appears to be the most recent release of Scrivener. Is there a new impending release to be able and support all the Apple Intelligence abilities?
A few weeks ago, I think I read that an update is coming to address some minor adjustments to macOS Sequoia. I don’t really expect any new features, but presumably a few bug fixes, but I’m sure we’ll find out in due course.
More exciting for me at the moment is the newly announced Writing Tool, which is scheduled for release sometime in the spring of next year.
If that were the case that means all the Apple Intelligence stuff would’ve been baked into Scrivener for the last year, and just not publicized. I find that hard to believe.
I’ve been a bit out of the loop these days. What new Writing Tool do you speak of?
Take a look under “announcements”.
We do indeed plan a Scrivener release to support Apple’s new Writing Tools.
I don’t know what Keith might be up to behind the scenes, but the only way to produce the screenshot that I’m aware of would be to import a PDF or image file with that layout. It is not an available editor view in the current version of Scrivener.
(But thank you so much, Apple, for promoting it. 
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Shoutout to the Scrivener team for getting a mention in the new Apple Macbook Pro Announcement!
Well done folks!
They actual make a point of showing them manipulating the text and images in that view it in the video, so… did they just fake what a third party app can do for their announcement?!
Video here: https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/macbook-pro/2024/00a46e4c-adb6-4301-aa38-917d219bff07/films/announcement/macbook-pro-announcement-tpl-us-2024_16x9.m3u8
Scriv is at timestamp 5:42
Congratulations on becoming the face of AI in writing, guys. 
It looks like we just got a sneak preview of Scrivener 4, with full layout capabilities. 
Well, they show an AI-generated summary, and they show Image Playground as the source of the image dropped into “Scrivener.” They don’t show any Scrivener-specific operations.
In an active Scriv window with columns?
Check the menu bar. It’s Image Playground that is actually active.
You’d have to ask Apple how the video was created. I’m just confirming that it does not show current Scrivener functionality.
Actually you might be able to do it with tables, if you hid the gridlines. Text reflow would be a bear, though, if you were doing it for a real document rather than a demo.
Maybe Apple engaged in corporate espionage, accessed Scrivener code, and just ran with it. 
I’m a little confused that they didn’t just use Pages, which is capable of that layout. Maybe they wanted to show the AI stuff working in a third party app?
That seemed to be the theme of that particular segment of the video. They appeared to be quite proud of it.
That is most likely it …
Ha, they seem to have stuck a capture of Pages between the toolbar and footer bar of Scrivener for part of it! I guess it’s creative licence. Presumably they did it so that they could show off tools not yet available in Scrivener, but which I’ve told them will be coming. It’s very nice to be included like that in an Apple video, though. And we even have a screenshot on the MacBook Pro product page: MacBook Pro - Apple (That one looks more like Scrivener’s Two Pages Across view, but with the centre line removed.)
Honestly it’s very nice to get a mention in an Apple promotional video even if they had to mock up some of what is coming.
The next Scrivener update (3.4) does include some updates to make Writing Tools available (or more easily available), and I will be adding support to add images from Image Playground. However, Image Playground has only just gone into beta, and I’m still on the waitlist for access, so I have to wait for access until I can add the feature. Like I say, Apple knows about these plans which is why they were kind enough to include us in their promotion (although I had no idea we were going to be featured).
No Scrivener 4 in the works yet! We’ll start on that after our other writing app is released next year (since some of the work on that will almost certainly feed into Scrivener 4, especially the iCloud stuff). And no plans for a four column layout!
Oh, and since all of these tools involve AI, I should probably say a quick word about that (I intend to create a page with something about our AI policy soon).
In short, the only AI you’ll see in our apps is that provided by the operating system. We won’t be adding AI tools of our own (I share the concerns of many creatives about generative AI). But neither will we actively prevent the use of AI tools that the OS makes available across the system.
In the case of Writing Tools, it’s just a matter of us enabling the “Writing Tools” menu. And with Image Playground, it’s a matter of us adding a few lines of code to make Image Playground available from within the app for inserting images. (Users would be able to use Image Playground and import the images anyway, so we’ll just be providing a shortcut to that process.)
All the best,
Keith
Who’s going to be a busy boy?
No hols for you in the foreseeable future. 
