What are /r/scrivener's favorite Products & Services?

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Looking into this: Crossover from Codeweavers used to be a free beta through the Google Play Store. Now it's a commercial product to run Windows apps like Scrivener.

Other options are:
yWriter for Android/Linux.
Manuskript - Linux.

For web-based alternatives:
Storyplanner
True Novelist
Supernotecard
Novelist
Novlr
Gingko

More web-based alternatives
https://alternativeto.net/software/scrivener/?platform=online

Also, Word Online or Android app. I use Word with navigation turned on and OneNote presently that gives me the functionality I need and like. It's free, too.

One of the writing apps I subscribe to, ProWritingAid, has a desktop app designed to work with Scrivener. Here is the link. I also have the full version of Grammarly and use both while editing my work.

I agree. I've been getting by using a free portable dictionary from here. It checks spelling on any app in windows so there's no actual integration to set up in Scrivener.

I used https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/ for my term paper in international economics. :-)

PS: The Menu is confusing because it says new map when hovering over the > symbol in the top left corner, click it to get the actual menu with load / save and a ton of useful options.

And also, when updating images in Scrivener, I started by linking files but found it easier just to copy and paste the image each time. (Scrivener uses absolute file-paths, so all links to images fail when syncing with the IOS version or just moving to a different directory). I hope this will improve in future releases of Scrivener.

So how are you going to eventually compile to an eBook etc from a Word master file without a full re-import into Scrivener? Wouldn't something like this work?

Why I Don't Accept/Reject in Word

You can try Storyist. It's an app that looks like Pages and Scrivener had a baby. Or you can try Notion. Personally I use both Scrivener and Notion. I use Notion to map out the direction of my work before concretely placing it in Scrivener. But I understand if one is not the direction that you feel that you can comfortably take.

I like this site: https://alternativeto.net/software/scrivener/

Manuskript
yWriter (free, not open source)
Quoll Writer

At some point, the'll just have to release with some bugs, as all software has. But they have a lot now.

>But I keep hoping there's something out there that would make the whole business of acts and scenes and plot-points and etc. a lot easier to visualize and play with.

If you find it, let me know. The best solution I've found so far is Dynalist, which uses a free/premium model. I've used OmniOutliner for many years, and I find Dynalist much faster and easier.

Dynalist has a fast and easy tagging system, so you can quickly see all your scenes tagged with a plotline or a character. The free level might be enough for you -- give it a try. It's a cloud app, but it also has desktop and mobile versions and they all tlak to the same cloud account.

Have you tried loading the epub (convert to pdf via calibre tool) as a research file within Scrivener project and then opening your doc and the pdf file in spilt screen option?

Edit: https://calibre-ebook.com/ this is calibre to convert your epub to pdf.

Honestly Dabble has been my go to. It has a 2 week free trial that doesn’t require your Creditcard and it’s cheapest subscription is 5/month.

dabble writer

I also bought scrivener first watched all the videos and started eking away at mastery and then I learned some. If the really cool features I want bought it for are mostly on Mac with no plans to bring the features over to PC, so I converted.

Hi there

I built https://wavemaker.co.uk

If your complaint is that it's too "FREE" then that can be fixed by simply paying me some money via patreon or PayPal

I dunno... You try and be a decent open source developer and people frikking complain about Free... Smh

Did you already save the new version of the file? What I would have done is save the project under a new name. The old file would have had whatever was in the project the last time you saved it--hopefully pre-delete. But, it sounds like you might be beyond that.

If you'd copied the entirely of those 10,000 words (ie Ctrl+c), and if you've set up Clipboard, you may be able to restore them from your Windows clipboard history: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028529/windows-10-clipboard

Unfortunately there is no way of doing that, the only access we have to the highlight feature is to create them. In fact from a little light reading on the Web, it looks to be a fairly unusual capability all around, even among dedicated PDF software like Adobe's stuff.

I would recommend the open source software, Skim. You can open PDF files out of Scrivener into a program like that, using it for annotation, and export notes to RTF. It's also possible to "bake in" your Skim annotations so that they become visible in other programs (like Scrivener)---but do be aware that in doing so they will be lost to Skim for the purposes of being considered notes it can work with. It after all uses the same toolkit we do and are subject to its limitations.

Pair the iPad with an inexpensive Bluetooth keyboard and you have a fantastic on-the-go writing setup.

I personally love this one, but there are many, many options.