Tip of the Day Tweets

Tip of the Day: To expand the window to fit the screen, use Window > Zoom to Fit Screen (ctrl-cmd-=).

Tip of the Day: To save your preferences to restore them later, use the “Manage…” pop-up button at the bottom of the Preferences… window.

Tip of the Day: To change the colour of an annotation, just click into the annotation and use the Text > Font > Show Colors panel.

Tip of the Day: To split up text after importing, use Documents > Split at Selection (cmd-K) or Split with Selection as Title (opt-cmd-K).

Tip of the Day: To generate a synopsis from the current text selection, click on the button above the index card in the inspector.

Tip of the Day: To assign a label or status to multiple documents, ctrl-click on the selected docs in the binder, corkboard or outliner.

Tip of the Day: To assign keywords to multiple docs, select the docs and drag & drop the keywords onto one of them from the Keywords HUD.

Hey there imaginary friend.

Why not put these on a “tip of the day” page on L&L? Then you could tell folks to look at that page and avoid exposing them to the refuse here on the lower decks.

I’d like to read the tips but do not wish to tweet until I have to.

A,

Hopefully the shodowy will have mercy on the souls that, like us, prefer our tweets to originate with a feathered friend.

Tis a sad sad day, when a sad sad soul, craves the winged wazzack as a friend.
Fluff

This thread made me laugh. But yay for Scrivener tips of the day!

I looooooooooove Scrivener.

Debbie

Thing is Debs,
These TotDs are the Dogs Bs! ☺ Cant understand why they didnt appear sooner? The mousehounds aversion to the word tweeting, stems from the fact that, she aint getting any! If she wont put her nose outside the door and go out on the pull, she aint likely to! Is she?
Take care
vic

You know vic-k, we could probably provide some “tips of the day” that would get the shadow man to put up a separate tips page for Aisling. Most of mine would center around how to best prepare roadkill, various unique uses for empty cans and bottles and possibly how not to go about wooing a mate.

What do you have to offer?

Your task henceforth, Sir Jaysen LJust, is to help ensure that Gr the GrossnDevious does not worm his way into Starstuffs affections. You must councel her against such worthless affiliations. Go to it, staunch ally.
Take, ‘Caution’ as your squire.

StarRider

I guess we are all doomed. I threw caution to the wind earlier today.

To he solar winds good Knight! My trusty steed these many aeons past!! A sound move good Knight! A sound move Sir!
StarRider

Hi

thanks so much for posting the tips here on this site. Yes!!!

Tip of the Day: File > Backup Project To… allows you to create zipped-up backups of your project. Recommended!

Tip of the Day: Dropbox (www.getdropbox.com) with Scriv’s File > Backup Project To (as zip) is a great way to back up and share Scriv files.

Tip of the Day: To switch between project and document notes, click Document Notes in the Inspector. Project notes can be viewed by any doc.

Tip of the Day: To copy whole documents, use Documents > Duplicate (cmd-D). Or use Simple Duplicate, which won’t copy subdocuments.

Tip of the Day: Preferences only affect text formatting for new documents. For existing docs, use Documents > Convert > to Default Text Style.

Tip of the Day: Text > Ghost Notes Mode fades out unselected annotations and footnotes. Great for making them less obtrusive.

Tip of the Day: Scrivener Links (Text > Scrivener Link, or drag docs into text) allow you to make links between documents in a project.

Tip of the Day: Use the References pane in the Inspector to create links to external files that you don’t want to import into the project.

Tip of the Day: Make sure files have extensions before importing them into Scrivener. Scrivener uses the extension to determine file type.

Tip of the Day: By default Compile Draft uses novel format. Turn off ‘Override…’ in the Formatting tab to export without changing format.

Tip of the Day: To get chapter numbers when you Compile Draft, just enter the <$n> tag into your chapter titles. 2.0 will make this easier!

Tip of the Day: RTF is by far the best export format. To export with footnotes, images, headers and comments intact, choose RTF.

Tip of the Day: To print your entire draft, go to File > Compile Draft and click on the "Print“ button instead of "Export“.

Tip of the Day: To export an entire project with the directory structure intact, select all in the binder and go to File > Export > Files…

Tip of the Day: When exporting to Final Draft 7 FCF, be sure to check the options to adjust quotes/ellipses/dashes etc in Compile Draft.

Tip of the Day: When the editor is split, the pane that is active displays an underline in the document title in its header bar.

Tip of the Day: If you accidentally hit delete on a file, the file is not permanently deleted, just moved to Scrivener’s Trash folder.

Tip of the Day: The Keywords HUD (heads-up display) allows you to organise keywords and drag them onto documents to assign them.

Tip of the Day: The little arrow next to the magnifying glass in the toolbar search field allows you to change the search parameters.

Tip of the Day: Project Settings allows you to set up your own list of labels and status descriptions, & you can rename ‘Label’ & ‘Status’.

Tip of the Day: Holding the Option key down while clicking on a triangle in the binder/outliner will expand everything inside the folder.

Tip of the Day: Holding the Option key down while dragging in the binder/outliner will disallow drop-ons, making dropping between easier.

Tip of the Day: Project Targets allow you to set a word/character count target for the entire draft, and for each writing session.

Tip of the Day: To exit a search, either click on the X in the search field or in the footer bar beneath the binder.

Tip of the Day: View > Reveal in Binder (opt-cmd-R) will show where the current editor document is in the binder.

Tip of the Day: You can set up full screen mode to look like an old-fashioned computer by playing with the Full Screen Preferences.

Tip of the Day: To enter line breaks into synopses when editing in the corkboard or outliner, use Opt-return instead of just return.

Tip of the Day: Create custom project templates by setting up a bare bones project with settings you want and using File > Save As Template.

Tip of the Day: You can customise all keyboard shortcuts in Scrivener and other Cocoa programs via System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse.

Tip of the Day: Coloured text will be exported as revised text when exporting to Final Draft 8 FDX format.

Tip of the Day: To see where a project is saved, ctrl-click on the .scriv icon next to the project name at the very top of the window.

Tip of the Day: Scrivener supports MultiMarkdown (MMD). MMD is a simple mark-up syntax that can be converted into LaTeX and XHTML.

Tip of the Day: New docs use the current mode. If in script mode, new docs will use script mode. Cmd-3 switches between script and prose.

Tip of the Day: Folders and text files are much the same. To see the text of a folder, click on the corkboard icon.

Tip of the Day: You can convert a text file into a folder and vice versa via Documents > Convert > to File / to Folder.

Tip of the Day: Edit Scrivenings allows you to work on multiple text documents as though they were one, even inside the Research folder.

Tip of the Day: To create your own scriptwriting formats, use Text > Scriptwriting > Script Settings (useful for custom formatting too).

Tip of the Day: Edit > Find > Find Annotation allows you to cycle through all annotations in a project.

Tip of the Day: To make individual documents retain format in Compile Draft (e.g. title pages), check Preserve Formatting in the Inspector.

Tip of the Day: Before making major changes to a text doc, hit cmd-5 (Take Snapshot), so that you can always return to the earlier version.

Tip of the Day: Documents > Convert allows you to convert PDF or web files into text files for editing (some formatting may be lost).

Tip of the Day: Documents > Merge merges selected documents, although Edit Scrivenings is usually better for editing different docs as one.

Tip of the Day: Entering <$p> in the header/footer field in Compile Draft / Text Options will insert the page number in the compiled file.

Tip of the Day: Prefer the Outliner to the Corkboard? Preference > Navigation tab allows you to choose which one gets shown by default.

Tip of the Day: For writing in languages that use accents, turning off typographer’s quotes is recommended.

Tip of the Day: Opt-cmd-up/down arrow zooms in/out on text, PDF and web files.

Tip of the Day: To change the font in multiple documents, set it in Text Editing Preferences and use Documents > Convert > Default Style.

Tip of the Day: Hit cmd-. or opt-Esc while typing to bring up the auto-complete list. Add project auto-complete words via the Edit menu.

Tip of the Day: The two arrows in the footer bar beneath the outliner and corkboard make the other editor show the selected docs.

Tip of the Day: If you would like to change the organisation of your toolbar, go to View > Customize Toolbar…

Tip of the Day: Command-r (cmd-r) will quickly show or hide the ruler.

Tip of the Day: You can get rid of the lines from index cards using the Fonts & Colors Preferences.

Tip of the Day: The lock button at the bottom of the Inspector locks the Inspector to one editor, regardless of which has the focus.

Tip of the Day: If you don’t like the start panel, prevent it from appearing by unchecking “Show start panel…” in Preferences > General.

Tip of the Day: To make the window fit the whole screen, use Window > Zoom to Fit Screen.

Tip of the Day: The scriptwriting features can be bent to set up formatting styles, so can be useful to non-scriptwriters too.