I originally thought it was silly and gratuitous, but I eventually found it to be a nice (and fun) way to play with the organization of the document. In addition to seeing the text, and a standard wordprocesor-style outline view (which I don’t use), there’s a cool corkboard mode. Doing major surgery like that in a single document is fraught with peril. This feature alone, to me, is worth the low price of admission ($45). If I decide that I really should talk about queues before terminology, I can just drag the entity and rearrange things. If I wanted to make sure that the text flows into and out of that section, I can multi-select Time, Dispatch Groups, and Semaphores, and see those three sections of text in one editing panel, with subtle separators between the sections. If I’m wanting to edit the text for Dispatch Groups, I can select it in the Binder and focus in only on that text. It has all of the sections of the chapter. Each entity can be as long or as short as it needs to be.įor example, this is the “binder”, the outline view, for the new GCD chapter: You can organize these entities in an outline, and Scrivener will automatically flow the text as if it were a larger document. Rather than having, say, a chapter of a book in one single Word or Pages document, you can have each section or sub-section of that chapter in an entity. Scrivener is a non-linear text editing environment. In all, about 18,000 words worth of work. The last three big chunks of new stuff for AMOSXP(3), (GCD, using Instruments, and a re-write and major updating of NSFileManager) were organized and written in Scrivener, and then later converted to DocBook for inclusion in the book. Scrivener is the latest to enter the pantheon of My Favorite Apps. Every now and then I come across a software tool that Gets It.
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