The only writing program you need.

The power of Scrivener is organization. Whether you are writing a research paper, a book, a novel, or a screenplay (I’ve used it for all of those purposes), Scrivener lets you keep all of your writing, references, characters, locations, topics, themes, resources, etc neatly, sanely organized (and if you are so inclined, annotated, commented, and labelled).

You can quickly draft outlines as “index cards” and then use those as building blocks to fill in your actual content at your leisure. The beauty of this is: instead of working in one, giant, ever-growing document, you are essentially working from several… but with the added bonus of being able to treat those many smaller documents as if they were all individual parts of a single document. This unique form of organization means that you can easily write in a non-linear fashion, as inspiration strikes, without worrying about your project getting messy, muddled, or confused.

You can also keep “folders” on characters, locations, or any other research topics that aren’t going to be included in your finished work. And it while the developers claim that Scrivener isnt intended to be a replacement for screenwriting software like Final Draft or Movie Magic, I find that it actually works better than those options since Scrivener includes formatting options for screen and stage plays (both FD and MM have aged poorly, and are horrible buggy messes).

And no matter what your topic or format, when you are finished, Scrivener lets you “compile” the sum of your completed work into a single document in any popular format you might need… MS Word (doc & docx), Final Draft, ePub, mobi, or HTML… just to name a few. No matter what you are using it for, Scrivener WILL improve your writing process substantially.

Best of all, Scrivener is now available for iOS and offers 100% feature parity between OSX and iOS… with project syncing via Dropbox. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPad Pro with a keyboard cover, Scrivener finally makes professional writing on your iPad not only feasible, but pleasant and powerful.

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