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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: ‘Edit > Find > Find by Formatting…’ allows you to find text based on its formatting.

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Everyone recommends it, but for good reason. It's built to handle large, complex projects (I use it for world bibles as well as drafting novels).

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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: ‘Edit > Find > Find by Formatting…’ allows you to find text based on its formatting.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Use Search Collections to keep track of different threads. Use Project Search, then save as a Collection using the search field menu.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Before making major changes to a document, take a Snapshot in the Inspector so that you can always return to the earlier version.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Before making major changes to a document, take a Snapshot in the Inspector so that you can always return to the earlier version.

You'll be fine! 😀

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Use an image instead of a synopsis on the corkboard by clicking on the picture icon in the “Synopsis” header bar of the Inspector.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Use an image instead of a synopsis on the corkboard by clicking on the picture icon in the “Synopsis” header bar of the Inspector.

John Garrison Marks is a historian whose latest book is Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory.
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Discover more about how the book came to be created and why here: buff.ly/qsjOQVS

Write Now with Scrivener, Episode no. 60: John Garrison Marks, Historian - Literature & Latte

I had the pleasure of going on the @scrivenerapp.bsky.social podcast to talk with @kirkville.com about my book, my process, and how I use Scrivener. No better tool for long form writing! www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-n...

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: ‘Documents > Convert’ lets you convert PDF and web files into text files for editing.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: ‘Documents > Convert’ lets you convert PDF and web files into text files for editing.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: To create a table of contents: select the documents to go into it from your binder, select ‘Edit > Copy Special > Copy Documents as ToC’, then paste into a document.

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We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Worldbuilding month!

Follow #ScrivenerSFF all month long for writing tips, insights, and inspiration.

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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: To create a table of contents: select the documents to go into it from your binder, select ‘Edit > Copy Special > Copy Documents as ToC’, then paste into a document.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: To merge multiple sections into a single section, use ‘Documents > Merge’.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: To merge multiple sections into a single section, use ‘Documents > Merge’.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Use the corkboard to navigate the other editor when there’s a split by clicking the box-with-arrow icon in the footer. (Works with the outliner too.)

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Any document icon visible in the project can be dragged and dropped into various contexts, just as though it were dragged from the binder.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Any document icon visible in the project can be dragged and dropped into various contexts, just as though it were dragged from the binder.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: When a document’s icon is dog-eared, that means that it has snapshots associated with it.

#Scrivener 3 on Mac & Windows Tip of the Day: Switch to page view in the editor using ‘View > Text Editing > Show Page View’ on Mac, or ‘View > Text Editing > Page View’ option toggle on Windows.

Copyholders let you keep a reference doc open inside the editor while you write - great for continuity checks and research (PDFs/images/web pages) without constant scrolling.

For the full tutorial, go to the link in bio under #ScrivenerMadeSimple.

#Scrivener 3 on macOS & Windows Tip of the Day: Switch to page view in the editor using ‘View > Text Editing > Show Page View’ on Mac, or ‘View > Text Editing > Page View’ option toggle on Windows.

Whether it's a scene or idea that doesn't fit in this project (but might in your next) or a chapter that sparks a spin-off, you may want to copy items from one Scrivener project to another. There are two ways to do this, and both are very simple.
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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Transcribe audio and video by splitting the window and playing media in one editor. See ‘Navigate > Media’ for keyboard shortcuts.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Transcribe audio and video by splitting the window and playing media in one editor. See ‘Navigate > Media’ for keyboard shortcuts.

#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Centre outliner columns in the visible area by selecting ‘Center Content’ from ‘View > Outliner Options’.