Scrivener for iOS

Overview of Scrivener application and its uses and benefits for writers and how it works on iOS. Covers basic concepts and used to create familiarity with Scrivener for iOS.

Learn how to purchase and install Scrivener on your iPhone and iPads and how to connect it to Scrivener for desktop if you also use Scrivener on Mac or Windows. Also provides instruction for syncing Scrivener across your iOS devices and desktop versions.

Provides key concepts and terminology for using Scrivener from the writer's point of view. Deepens your understanding and familiarity with Scrivener's main features and UI (User Interface).

Learn about Scrivener’s Dark Mode, introduced in July, 2017 and why people use Dark Mode. This lecture examines various use cases for Dark Mode and how to activate it and toggle it on and off.

Learn how to improve your writing efficiency using Scrivener shortcuts, how to find out what shortcuts exists and how to invoke them. Provides tips to improve your writing productivity.

Learn how to sync Scrivener using Dropbox to be able to work across multiple iPhones and iPads and Scrivener for desktop systems. Provides insights to ensure you are syncing with integrity and have the confidence to use Scrivener when on the road in addition to being in the office!

Learn how to create a new writing project using three different methods and where to create you projects be it on your iOS device or Dropbox.

Learn how to save your writing project, make a copy of it and how to ensure it is safely stored.

Scrivener has a number of application-wide settings you can customize to suit the way you work. This lecture reviews the editing, spelling, syncing and user interface theme settings and which ones may be right for you!

Scrivener also provides settings at the project level in addition to the application-wide level as all projects are different. Learn how to establish these settings to create and work with the specific needs for each of your writing projects. This lecture teaches you how to set your project up to write a novel versus a screen play for example.

Scrivener has a great Extended Keyboard in addition to Apple's standard iOS keyboard and allows you to define and quickly access shortcuts and develop workflows to improve your productivity several times! This lecture provides an overview of what and how to place actions on the Keyboard and how to use them to increase your writing productivity.

Project templates are extremely useful for jump-starting a new project and being partially complete before you even start! This lecture will show you the value of templates and various structures you can define for novels, non-fiction, screenplays and so on, and how to save and use templates to improve your writing effectiveness.

Learn how to move a project between Dropbox and
your iOS device and how to delete a project all together when it is no longer needed.

The Binder is unique to Scrivener and a powerful tools for outlining and drafting your work. This lecture provides instruction on how to structure the binder, evolve it and easily move files and folders around as you evolve your project.

The binder can be viewed at a summary level, detail level, various levels you want to focus on when writing and also be used to quickly move, delete and reorganize files and folders. This lecture teaches you how to do that easily and comprehensively.

This lecture teaches you how to add new section and chapters to your writing, and how to duplicate them when they are similar to another chapter as sometimes it is easier to copy and then modify. there are various ways to do this based on your writing workflow and this lecture will explore all of them.

Explains how to define and use Folder and File templates (available starting with Scrivener for iOS version 1.01) to more easily and consistently create new content. This is a great new feature and how to use it is explained here.

Learn how to move folders and files (chapters and sections in your book or acts and scenes in your screen play) to a more suitable position in your outline. Also learn how to delete folders or files that are no longer needed or more suited to another manuscript. The power of Scrivener is to be able to do this as you continue to evolve your thinking on what you are writing. This powerful feature is covered in detail in this lecture.

Explore the purpose and best uses for the main Draft Folder and how to structure it based on if you are writing a novel, screenplay, non-fiction work or thesis. Provides best practices and examples for each.

Explore the purpose and best uses for the Research Folder base on your writing project. Using the Research Folder is one of the unique features of Scrivener that allows you to maintain everything you need to keep at hand so you no longer have to have separate physical research files, post-it notes, etc.

Explore the purpose and use of the Trash Folder and how to remove information from your writing without losing all together - just in case you need it later!

In addition to the three mandatory Scrivener folders for your writing projects Scrivener allows you to create other ones based on your needs. This lecture presents some ideas as to when that may be useful and how to create and use them.

Scrivener is a great project management system for authors and uses a lot of meta data to help you manage and monitor your work. You will learn how to use Status and Labels to improve your writing management and productivity in addition to learning to review other static metadata.

In addition to application-wide and project-wide settings for your projects, you can customize the controls at an individual file or folder level. You will learn how to define specific settings to control how Folders and Files are used. This allows you to define if they exist in your compiled output or not, should be formatted as normal text or as a script, and other features regarding the user interface.

Learn how to easily create and your own icons using iOS emoji sets for use with Scrivener to more clearly define a Folder or Files purpose and be able to easily identify it in the Binder. 

Before writing the actual content, it is often useful to provide a quick overview and some ideas about what you want the content to contain. Scrivener provides you strong capabilities to do that using their Synopsis and Notes areas. These can be used powerfully to make the writing of the actual content much easier. Notes can also often be used to maintain checklists when editing a file.

When you are serious at writing and writing to deadlines, you need to have a plaan and targets to achieve to ensure you hit those deadlines. Learn how to set and track project and daily session writing targets. Three great examples are provided for how to define and use writing targets.

Become familiar with using and navigating the Editor User Interface. Learn about the Editor's features and how to invoke them.

Learn how to enter and edit text and how to do so using full-screen and / or typewriting methods which best suits the way you like to draft. 

Being able to position your cursor and select blocks of text are two of the most fundamental and critical skills to have when working with Scrivener for iOS. This lecture explains the various techniques used to accomplish that, making you as accomplished using your fingers and gestures on iOS as you were with a mouse or trackpad on your desktop or laptop!

Scrivener has powerful text formatting capabilities and also allows you to format your text in the editor or when you compile your final publication. Learn the various methods for formatting text in the editor and to prepare it for publication. Covers how to define font families, highlights, size and color, alignment and also also use a numbe of Scrivener presets to make your job easier!

Much of your writing may exist outside of Scrivener and you need to to get it into Scrivener to complete the job. Learn how to import text from elsewhere, be it Word, Pages or some other editor that now needs to power of Scrivener to take over. This lecture shows you how to do that quickly and easily.

Newer iPads provide Split Screen support and iOS 11 has an expanded Dock capability. Using both together allows you to multi-task and easily copy and paste text into Scrivener. Newer users of iPads will be able to significantly enhance their writing work flow using Split Screen and the new Dock.

Often you need to segment larger documents into smaller ones. This lecture shows you how to do that to segment your work into chapters and sub-chapters are is required.

Sometimes, it may make sense to combine a few topics into a larger presentation for a chapter or scene in a play. This lecture provides the workflow and tips to combine smaller documents into one larger one as you continue to evolve your work.

Scrivener provides powerful capabilities to fin and also replace text, either one text field at a time or in total if you are sure of the replacements you want to make. This lecture shows how to do that at the file and entire project levels. Learn how to invoke and use Find and Find and Replace.

Scrivener provides a number of other writing tools to improve your writing. Learn how to invoke the iOS dictionary, add new dictionaries and use the Internet to find meaning of words and phrases to make sure you are describing things properly! This powerful tool is covered in this lecture.

Scrivener allows you to add images and links to your documents in addition to text. Learn how to embed links and images and how to format images and use links to improve the quality and speed at which you write..

Newer iPads provide Split Screen support and iOS 11 has an expanded Dock capability. Using both together allows you to multi-task and easily drag links and images into Scrivener. Newer users of iPads will be able to significantly enhance their writing work flow using Split Screen and the new Dock.

Scrivener provides a variety of options for including footnotes, endnotes and comments in your writing, either for documentary purposes and for inclusion when created the final output. Learn how to define footnotes, endnotes and comments to ensure you get the proper treatment when you publish.

Scrivener provides powerful scriptwriting capabilities for screen plays, documentary shorts and other types of productions that requires scripts. This lecture teaches you how to define a project to be a screenplay, how to write a script and what elements to use within your scripts.

This lecture brings you step-by-step through each step in the scriptwriting process using an example project. By the end of it, you should be accomplished at using Scrivener's scriptwriting capabilities.

This lecture teaches you how to turn your draft into a final production to be used as a printed book or other document. It covers how to invoke and use the compile function and what options to set based on the type of writing project you have been working on. It also covers Compile Appearance Presets to make the job easy for you when handling most situations.

Sometimes you may need a bit more control over your compiled output. This lecture covers how to create and modify your own Compile Appearance Presets to provide exactly the control you require and how to use variables for features such as page numbering, Chapter Headers and so forth.

While you can use Scrivener to create and publish a book, you may often want to share the final output with someone else or have it used in a downstream application such as InDesign or Final Cut Pro. This lecture shows you the various ways to save and share your work with other people and applications.

Explains the Files app in iOS 11 and how Scrivener had works with Files when importing and exporting files, and why and how to use it in conjunction with Scrivener.

Compares best approaches for opening, renaming, duplicating, moving and deleting projects using Files in conjunction with Scrivener.

In addition to the previous methods for importing text and images, Files provides an easier and more visual approach for importing files from elsewhere on your iOS device or a multitude of cloud services and this lecture explains how to do that.

Scrivener has always provided the ability to Compile and Share its output with other apps. Now with Files, you can precisely place your output directly on your iPad or save to various cloud services.

This lecture explains your lifetime guarantee and access to the course and how to continue to engage with me as instructor and also thank you for taking the course!

You should be an expert using Scrivener for iOS by now. However, we want to provide more information to allow you to continue your journey and continue to improve your writing. This lecture provides a list of all resources included with the course and a set of links to engage with Scrivener support and Scrivener User Communities.