![]() If something gets screwed up, not to worry. When I next open Scrivener it will make the changes I made along with any new material I have added to the Character, Location, Notes, Comments or whatever folders I have in Scrivener. When done I upload the entire folder and overwrite the cloud version. On the Chromebook end I just download the Project folder intact and work on it on or offline. It allows you to export the contents of a Project, together with its folder structure, as a TXT, DOC, or screenplay compatible file to a cloud service. It seems to be little known although it has been part of Scrivener forever. On my Chromebooks and Android smartphone I make use of Scrivener's Sync With External Folder feature. The voice to text feature in Gdocs is pretty decent and dead simple to use but unfortunately it doesn't handle transcription from external recordings. It can be used offline on a Chromebook if you want and it will convert from the Gdocs format to TXT, DOC, PDF, etc. The most convenient word processor I have found is Google Docs. There are a lot of writing programs out there for Chromebooks but nothing that performs the same functions as Scrivener, and certainly not for compiling. It's kind of a long and winding path when describing it, but it's actually pretty efficient in practice. I may not use scrivener at all on my current projects except for the final formatting and publication stages, but I'm not sure about that yet, so I'm storing everything there just in case, to save myself the work later. Basically you paste the text with markdown formatting into writemonkey, highlight it and select "Copy as RTF," then paste it into scrivener.Īfter that, if you've been using hashtags to create headings, you'll have a big scrivener file with bolded scene titles that you can easily split up into separate scenes, and store in whatever project folders you want. Lately I'm using it mostly to turn my markdown into rich text. I went ahead and signed up for a monthly subscription, which you'd have to do if you wanted to use it in a serious way, because the free version is too restrictive.Īt the end of each week, I paste my big file from The Internet Typewriter into a free PC program called writemonkey (another great writing app, works well all by itself, and I have used it as my main writing app in the past). I'm seriously considering using it as the main app for my second draft. If it had a word count feature, it'd be an awesome writing tool all by itself. It's kind of hard to explain all the features of workflowy here (just end up with word salad), but if you mess with it, you'll see how it can be useful. It's very easy to move list items around and reorganize them however you like, and it's easy to edit notes. ![]() These can be expanded or contracted, and you can zoom in deeper so the note fills the whole screen. This gives you a text box attached to the list-item where you can put as many words as you want. if you let your mouse hover over the little dot next to each list-item, you'll see an option to add a note. I store the actual text in workflowy using the note feature. I create a heading for each project, then list-items inside those headings for scenes, chapters or whatever. Workflowy is basically for creating lists, within lists, within lists. When I finish writing a scene or snippet, I copy it, and use workflowy as a place to store the drafted pieces, so that I can view my whole project and shuffle things around from my chromebook. There's no text lag, and it just feels like a nicer place to get into a creative flow IMO. Overall its a much nicer place to do your initial writing than google docs. I noticed that if you delete a bunch of text from a document, more than a few hundred words, it'll automatically create a new document with all the old text still present, just in case you didn't mean to. They do seem to have some neat safety features. So far it hasn't lost any of my work, although I haven't been using it long so I can't really vouch for it with much confidence yet. I like this app because of its minimalist design, and because it has a page-count estimation feature, in addition to the word count. I write everything using markdown, so all I need is plain text to keep track of my italics and bolding. I keep one big rolling document there for the whole week, which helps me keep track of my writing productivity, and I use hashtags to create headings between scenes and snippets. I recently switched from using an Alphasmart Neo for most of my writing to a chromebook, and after experimenting with several things, I ended up using a few different apps combined together.įirst, I do my writing on Writer: The Internet Typewriter.
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