Evernote invariably comes up in my Scrivener courses. Someone mentions how they use it for their research and asks how to integrate it with Scrivener. Someone else asks what it is, and off we go. 😉 Since Evernote is a web clipping tool at its core—and a fabulous way to keep track of all sorts of
[UPDATE 31Jan2020: For the Scrivener 3 version of this info, check out this post on Bookmarks at Writer Unboxed.] Importing research, images, and web pages into Scrivener is handy, but sometimes creating a reference might be a better option. When might you want to use a reference instead of importing? When you always want the
I may never take notes on paper again. Not if I can help it, anyway. I took my iPad to my chapter meeting. Not only was the presentation noteworthy, but for me, so was the process of jotting it all down. I’ve long wanted to take my laptop to such events, but for various reasons
When I first posted about Evernote last week, I had a feeling it would be a game changer. So far it’s living up to my expectations and has become an indispensable part of my life both for writing and everything else. And I’m not even using it to its full potential, I’m sure. Not only
Okay, so after my recent post about Instapaper.com, you’re using it–or something similar–to save online articles and posts you want to read later. Right? The next step is to collect the “keepers”. Again, bookmarks get messy, printing wastes paper, and not everything applies to your current Scrivener project (hence you may not want to import it