![]() ![]() So, we’re going to start at the very beginning to ensure that you're on the right track. Over the last few years, I’ve realized that many people don’t understand some of the key fundamentals of Scrivener. No matter what level of Scrivener user you are, it’s important to know the basics. Feel free to share how you organize your own research.Back to: Scrivener 1 for Windows: The Basics and Beyond So that’s how I organize my research using Scrivener. ![]() When I’m referring to these articles, I use Scrivener’s nifty split screen feature, but I’ll leave that for next week’s lesson. It’s easier to manipulate, especially if articles from newspapers run over to more than one page. On the corkboard it looks like this along with the index cards that summarize the setting sketch:įor articles that come from the web, I prefer to turn them into PDFs instead of having the web pages. In this case, I selected a photo and as you can see in the editor pane that I’ve typed notes about this specific photograph and its part in the story. A window will drop down showing your finder’s files, select any file you want and then hit Import. Once again, go to File Menu, select Import, but this time choose Files. Let’s say I want to import a photo from my Macbook Pro’s Finder files. If the page is updated, you won’t see any changes, but the hyperlinks work. Click on it to view it in the editor pane. The imported page appears in the research folder with a Web icon. In the Title box, type the subject of your research. To import from the Internet, select Research. Your original file is still in its folder that you saved within your files and the copy or photo remains untouched. I’ve imported photographs of how my characters look like and numerous photos of where certain scenes take place. An important thing to note is that Scrivener makes a copy of the file. Scrivener allows you to import web pages, text files, photos and even videos within the binder. The remaining two folders are from Scrivener’s template, which provides template sheets for a character and setting sketch the sample output includes samples of how a manuscript is formatted for a novel, paperback, and e-book. This file includes the templates for the synopsis in various formats, i.e., four page summary, two page, one paragraph, and so on, as well character synopsis. I also have a number of To Do tasks in the research folder and you can see I’ve selected the check mark icon. For any news articles about the financial crisis I selected the bar graph. I selected the book icons for Marx and Russell Kirk. ![]() I’ve added three more folders and that’s from the research I’ve culled from the internet and other places. The picture icon folder has all the details of my characters and the map folder has all the locales where Julius takes place. The conversation bubble folder has my elevator pitch the clapper board holds my unused scenes. I’ve chosen numerous icons to distinguish each folder to avoid confusion. ![]() From the list choose whichever icon suits your need. To change the icon, point your curser on a folder and right-click go to Change Icon. In a previous post, I showed how to change the icons, but I’ll save you the trouble to find that post and show you again: I tint the folders and I change the look of the icons. This way I don’t have to be flipping back and forth through my files, Evernote, or my bookmarked pages on my browser.Īs you can see–click on the image, it will open to another window and it will be larger–I like to play around with my icons. This post deals less with the techy side of the program, but how I organize my research so that it is at my fingertips all the time. Before I had Scrivener, I had many files scattered like land mines in my Julius file. As I’ve noted in a number of posts, I am a fanatic about research. ![]()
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