![]() ![]() ![]() These provide options for punctuation, text navigation and formatting, and the keys shown here are fully customisable-tap and hold a button to bring up the customisation palette. You can swipe left and right between three different sets of eight buttons, giving 24 in total. Scrivener has an extended keyboard row, that comes with a number of quick access keys along the top of the on screen keyboard. In this mode, the line of text you are typing remains centred on the screen, so that your eyes aren’t always staring at the bottom of your iPad as you write. You can turn it on by tapping the “T” icon in the navigation bar while editing, or via the Project Settings (the gear icon in the toolbar below the binder). There is a special typing mode available on the iPad, it is called Typewriter Mode. You can zoom in on the editor to make it as big as you wish. The bottom gives you some shortcut keys and the some functions for adding comments and hyperlinks. The magnifying glass brings up Find and Replace. You can see the word count at the top and you can undo or redo your actions as well. It looks decent, but not as beautiful as Ulysses’ editor. Quick Reference in Scrivener for iPadĮditor is where you do all the writing. It’s also possible to sub-divide your writing into multiple documents in a single project, making it easy to find and work on a particular draft or text and rearrange things with drag and drop. On the iPhone, you have to switch between files in the folder view. It makes it possible to view your research and what you’re writing side-by-side. This can be a huge time saver because you’ll have all these things available right inside the app and you don’t have to leave the app to find them.Īll these files can be accessed on the iPad using a mode called quick reference. Corkboard ViewĪnother great feature in Scrivener is the “Research” tab, which is a place where you can store files (images, text, etc.) that relate to your project. Corkboard is one of the application’s most innovative feature, and is only available on iPad. This allows you to look at your project and makes it very easy to rearrange the structure as needed. Binder in ScrivenerĪnother unique feature in Scrivener is the Corkboard view, which shows all your content sections on a virtual corkboard as notecards that you can drag around and reorganize, just like on a physical corkboard. When you compile the document, all of the sections under Draft will be combined in the order as shown in the outline and exported to your desired format – PDF, MS Word, RTF etc. When you create new material, it will be added to the Drafts section and be displayed in outline form. This is a collection of your writings – contained under “Draft”, a research folder for background material and a “trash” folder. Front Screen of ScrivenerĪfter creating a new project, you can get in the project view by tapping your project title. On iPhone it will open on a screen that provides a simple list of your writing projects. To start a new writing project, then simply hit the plus sign which will create a project. When you open scrivener it launches on a screen that all of your writing projects at a glance on iPad. To get started with Scrivener for iOS, you’ll be asked to create a new project. Moreover, you will see the terms such as “Binders”, and “Corkboards”, and to see your complete creation, you will have to “compile”, it. This is because it is not like your conventional word processor that have one file which contains all your writing, but rather a “Project”, which may contain rafts of files. If you are coming from minimalist word processors like iA Writer and Ulysses, Scrivener will seem a little complicated at first. You will have a steep learning curve with Scrivener. Scrivener includes a built-in text-based tutorial that will walk you through all the features. Scrivener is a great writing tool and can certainly be used for smaller writing projects as well, but its UI is not quite as nice Ulysses. Scrivener is a tool built for writers working on large projects such as novels. Scrivener has been one of the top applications for writers on the macOS desktop platform for years, its iOS editing is relatively new as compared to its Desktop and macOS counterparts. ![]()
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