A Scrivener project template is a framework on which to base a new project. Whether you’re penning a book, article, screenplay, or research paper, there’s a template for you. (For more on how to choose the best template for your project, check out Choosing a Scrivener Project Template.) For example, the Novel template comes prepopulated with certain folders, such as
You may know that you can modify the Label and Status fields to meet your needs, but what if you want to track even more items? With Custom Meta-Data, you can make your own. Want to know more? Here’s how to get started. Adding a Custom Meta-Data Field to Your Project 1. Make sure the Inspector is
You probably know that you can highlight text in Scrivener using your choice of colors. Big deal, right? Any decent word processor offers that. But did you know that you can also search by color, and rename the colors to something more meaningful for how you use them? If not, then read on. Just in
[Aug 10, 2012 UPDATE: A reader pointed out that this entire post was out of date because the Text menu made like the dinosaurs sometime in the two years since I wrote this. Most Text menu features are now available under the Format menu on both Mac and PC. I’ve changed the instructions below accordingly.]
Last week’s Tech Tuesday post on Templates was the most popular ever. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! That’s a hard act to follow, but I’ll give it my best. Did you know that in addition to saving your project settings into a template, you can also save your Compile Manuscript settings? Here are the
Well, last week’s Tech Tuesday post on the cool search engine WolframAlpha went over like a lead balloon, so this week it’s back to Scrivener to learn about advanced search features. The easiest search to use in Scrivener is the Project Search, which is available from the Search box in the toolbar. You type in
While checking out the Scrivener help recently, I came across some handy commands for the Binder–you know, the list of folders and files that appears along the left side of the Scrivener screen. I hope you find these as useful as I did. Remember: For contiguous selection, use the shift key For non-contiguous selection, use