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The Big Scrivener Survey

KB / 13 OCT 2020

Got fifteen minutes to spare? Help us shape the future of Scrivener by completing our survey.

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Version 1.1 of Scrivener for iOS

DMJ / 8 JUN 2017

We’re delighted to announce that in the next week or so, we'll be releasing our first major update to Scrivener on iOS. It includes a much requested feature, one we enjoy playing with, and lots of work under the hood related to Dropbox syncing.

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Scrivener - Best of 2016

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Scrivener in App Store Best of 2016

KB / 8 DEC 2016

Many thanks to the lovely Apple folk at all the stores that have included Scrivener for iPad in their "Best of 2016" app picks. It's been a great year (for Scrivener, I mean - clearly it's not been a great year for celebrities), and being picked as one of the Best of 2016 is a spiffing way to end it.

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Scrivener for iPad and iPhone

Bookmark Your Favourites in Scrivener for iOS

JH / 3 AUG 2016

Drilling through a hefty binder of hierarchical files on an iPhone can be a chore, so Scrivener on iOS lets you bookmark documents to make them easily accessible. Just tap the ribbon icon in the editor footer to add the file to a special “Bookmarks” group at the top of the binder. You can also swipe left on a row in the binder and bookmark the item from the “More” menu.

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Iconography in iOS (Or: Yes We Haz Custom Icons)

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Iconography in iOS (Or: Yes We Haz Custom Icons)

KB / 2 AUG 2016

Scrivener can contain all sorts of different documents: whether you need to gather together notes, research, character sheets, to-do lists or, you know, some actual writing, Scrivener is a big bucket of everything for your writing project. With all those documents ready to hand, you might want to make some of them stand out a little, so that you can see them at a glance as you browse.

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Finding Your Place in Scrivener for iOS

JH / 1 AUG 2016

In Scrivener for iOS, the sidebar usually shows the binder (the list of files in the project). However, the sidebar can also be used to show the inspector and, on iPads, a Quick Reference editor for referring to research.

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Scrivener for iOS: Exporting Single Files

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Scrivener for iOS: Exporting Single Files

KB / 29 JUL 2016

A writing app wouldn't be much use if you couldn't get your work out of it. In an earlier blog post, we talked about Compile, which allows you to export or print your entire Draft folder (or a subfolder of it) as a single document, piecing together the fragments of your text into a complete manuscript.

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Compile preview shows the total word & character count and makes it easy to export to other apps.

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Compiling the Draft in Scrivener for iOS

IaP / 28 JUL 2016

One of the principal concepts behind Scrivener is that you work with a long document by breaking it up into as many smaller chunks of text as you desire, rather than keeping it all in one long file that you have to scroll through. While the software makes it easy to work with your text in this fashion, you will still need a simple and effective method to create a single document out of all of those little pieces. In this way you can share some or all your work with others, save backup copies to text files, print out your work to paper or even quickly create a PDF for proofreading in your favourite viewer.

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Formatting palette.

Scrivener for iPad and iPhone

Scrivener iOS: Formatting Palette

DMJ / 27 JUL 2016

Scrivener’s editor on iOS is a full rich-text environment - in other words, you have complete control over the formatting and appearance of your text right inside the editor. When you start editing a document on the iPad, a paintbrush icon appears in the nav bar at the top of the screen. Tapping on this opens the formatting palette (if you’ve used Pages before, this will be immediately familiar). On the iPhone, the paintbrush icon can be found in the extended keyboard row (the extra row of buttons that appears above the keyboard).

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Charlie Stross - Beta Tester.

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"I wouldn’t be able to do my job without it." Author Charlie Stross On Scrivener - And How The iOS Version Fits In.

Julia / 26 JUL 2016

Scrivener for iOS presents a deceptively simple appearance: there are a lot of really nifty features that only show up if you experiment.

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