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I got word count tracking for both the manuscript and the session. There will be an occasion this summer when I’ll be travelling and I need to email a draft of the story I’m working on, thanks to deadlines, and this will do it.

#Scrivener for ios system requirements ipad pdf

Even the compile functionality–it’s bare-bones, no custom templates and no ePub files, but it outputs a Word or PDF file, and that’s enough to be perfectly usable for what I need. Well, first up, I got my bare-bones and nice to have features.

Write access to the research folders for making notes on the move.

Ability to move text boxes and chapters around to reorder.

Compile/export functionality into Word documents.

Dropbox syncing so the iPad didn’t have to be physically connected to a computer for file transfers.

I also had a list of features that I really hoped for, because it would make working much easier, but wouldn’t stop me buying if they were missing: If I had those really basic features, it would already be better than my Word-copy-paste routine.

Access to the research/character/location folders in a project, even if read-only.

Ability to add new words and edit in new and existing text documents.

Ability to open existing Scrivener projects and add new folders and text documents to the manuscript section of the binder.

When Scrivener announced the iOS version was finally going to be a reality, I concluded these were the absolute, must-have, deal-breaker features that I needed for it to be functional: Now I’ve been using it for a couple of days, what do I think so far? Which is as exactly as frustrating and fiddly as it sounds, so finally getting Scrivener on my iPad is going to be a huge timesaver. Without Scriv, though, I’ve been typing into Word and copying into Scriv later. In coffee shops, when I’m travelling, or even just because I’m too lazy to boot up the desktop of an evening, I have a keyboard and I can churn out the words wherever I am. The only problem has been that I often use my iPad for writing.

#Scrivener for ios system requirements ipad software

(It’s the day job software developer in me, I swear.) Using colours in labels to, for example, display which POV a scene or chapter is from really helps in a quick visual assessment of the balance in a story. Being able to version each scene using snapshots, rather saving the entire document as a new version each time I make a change, makes my heart happy during editing. Having all my notes on characters and locations, evolving outlines and research, all in one place for easy reference is wonderful. I tried it for that NaNo, only really planning to use it for planning rather than writing, but somehow ended up using it for everything that year and haven’t looked back. “What use is Scrivener to a writer like me?” Friends had been extolling it for years, but I’d been stubbornly clinging to Word. I began using Scrivener on my desktop a couple of years ago, for a NaNoWriMo. I’ve been waiting for this ever since I was converted to the Scrivener way a couple of years ago, so the last couple of days have been pretty damned exciting. If you somehow missed it, Scrivener for iOS was released yesterday morning, after a wait that has felt interminable to many.