QUESTIONS ABOUT CITATION MANAGERS...I get a lot of questions in the comments about citation managers so I thought I'd pin a comment at the top to address this. I didn't use a citation manager for my dissertation. Apparently I'm the only one who still manages their citations and sources manually the old fashioned way lol. That's how I learned and I just never bothered changing it. So I don't know how you would use a citation manager with Scrivener. Also, the version I'm using in this video is Scrivener 1. I now have Scrivener 3. It would be worth it to research using citation management software with Scrivener 3. I think someone had mentioned they found a video on CZcams that showed this. So it probably is possible, it's just not something I'm able to help with.
Thank you! I'm so glad it's still helpful. This was done for Scrivener 1, I now use Scrivener 3, but pretty much all of the tips are still correct for the newer version. :)
Yes, SOOO helpful! Do you have any tips for how to compile with numbered headings and sections into a Table of Contents? Several dissertation/thesis posts are saying it's easy to do in Scrivener, but no one's done it and showed the result. I can't seem to get it to work despite watching lots of videos =(
Wow this was so helpful!!! I’m about to defend my phd proposal (and begin writing) so I’m glad I came across this. I’m also really glad you’re based in the Humanities - too often PhD content on YT is STEM-based and adapting methods is a whole other exercise.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! And nice to find another Humanities person. :) I know what you mean, there's a lot of STEM peeps here on YT. Thanks for watching and good luck on your proposal!!! I've got a bunch of other PhD related videos on my experience going through a lot of the different steps if you want to check those out. :)
Just wanted to say thank you a million times over for this tutorial! I needed it for my dissertation, but the suggestion at the end to use this for setting up teaching modules was the thing that saved my life. I've been struggling for years to find a way to organize my courses and I finally feel like I have a place to brainstorm and organize so that I don't feel like I'm losing my mind every week.
Yes! It has so many more uses than just long form writing projects like novels or dissertations. I use it for teaching (especially for online courses), blogging, and starting my freelance business. And big long term project, even if it's smaller writing pieces within the project. It's just not practical to use physical binders anymore so this has been a great digital alternative. I've been meaning to film a follow up to this showing how I use it for these other projects, I'll try to do that soon! Thanks for watching! :)
I used to use Scrivener. I took a class in its use, got a book. Then I lost a project. I opened up a project I had been working on the night before and it was empty, 39,000 words gone. Not to mention the whole outline. I went for the backup, which Scrivener has a convoluted way of storing and reinstating, and it was just a bare outline. I backup my files to a cloud service in case of a drive crash, but it was just a copy of what Scrivener called a backup. I contacted my instructor, got on the forums no one could tell me where my project had gone or what I did wrong. It was just gone. Since I do not know what if anything I did wrong I just do not trust Scrivener. But, I love Scrivener's features. So, now I write in FocusWriter or Bambo Paper and cut and paste it into Scrivener. So, I can still use the features I love but if Scrivener pulls another Houdini I have another copy. I also backup the FocusWriter to the cloud. I also cut and paste to OneNote as well, color me paranoid.
Oh my gosh! I can't imagine losing a whole project like that! I'll have to look up FocusWriter and Bamboo Paper. And I don't blame you for being paranoid, I'm the same way, especially when I was writing my dissertation. Losing all of your work is the most terrifying thing I can imagine. Thanks for watching and for your comment! :)
This is always my #1 fear when starting to use a new program. I found a useful article someone wrote on the subject here: rdaleguthrie.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/scrivener-for-smarties-backups/ One of the ultra-backup methods this person suggests is to use the compile feature to export backup .rtf files that are just plain text of the entire document. I tested it (and tested the wrong ways to do it that result in just the outline, too) with the tutorial document and saved it in a note called "Scrivener backup Test". In the future, I'll probably save it as "[date] scriv backup compile" or something. To me, having a backup file that relies on only one kind of word processor to be able to open it up is not trustworthy or robust at all. I wonder if there's a way to program ctrl + S to save-as over the compile .rtf...
Absolutely brilliant, thank you so much. Scrivener appears to have an abundance of features over Latex and looks to be more user friendly. I am in the infancy of a Ph.D. and loved your video. Thank you thank you thank you.
This is the most helpful Scrivener tutorial I have watched on essay-style writing. It really showed me the tools it provides to structure both time and essay. Thank you.
Wow! You're super organized! I really enjoyed this video. I've been using Scrivener for a few years now, but only for important academic writing projects. I've only learned the basics (enough to get by, lol), but this video inspired me to go and really explore everything that Scrivener has to offer, especially now that I've started my PhD. From seeing the headers of your dissertation, I think it's fascinating that you've done research something related to fashion! That's really cool! =)
Thanks for watching! I'm so glad this video was helpful. Good luck with your PhD work! Yes, my PhD focused on fashion rhetoric, specifically how the clothing choices of stateswomen fashion icons constructs their public identity. :)
Great video! One of the only ones focused on a dissertation, so helpful! I followed the whole tutorial manual and it did not include how to edit the target of the words, so thanks for discussing that!
@@AndreaJSeverson Hi there! So I have bumped into a strange problem. When I go to the group mode of my draft, I have reached the target of my literature review (10.000) with 11.528 (total words), however Scrivener in the Total Progress only shows a yellow half full bar. Even though the sections included in this part are all green. What am I doing wrong? I have checked whether I need to include these sections in some way for the Total Progress, but I cannot find that option anywhere. The sections included are just text divided - they are subpages of the literature review. This is not an urgent issue, but it is kind of annoying.
Ah, I got it. I had to delete the word target for the folder, as it was included in the total target count. Now the bar is green, so much for satisfaction while writing a dissertation ;-)
I am looking at Scrivener now for my Master's Thesis and will use it when i continue on for my doctoral degree. Thank you so much for this video! The way you broke each section down on the basics of Scrivener has helped me tremendously!
What an excellent video. Just about to start a long project on the Greenland Norse and you have given me the confidence to delve into Scrivener and use it. If only Scrivener has existed when I wrote my PhD 30 years ago! Many thanks.
Thanks for watching! I'm so in love with Scrivener. I've gotten both my parents into using it for their writing projects. :) Your Greenland Norse project sounds fascinating! Hope you have fun! :)
Thank you for this!! I'm about to defend my proposal and start writing my dissertation in philosophy & I think this finally helped me make my text editor decision.
Thank you so much for this video. I had hit such a roadblock on how/where to get started with my diss over the last month or so, and learning a new organization program was just adding to that stress. You provided a great and easy-to-follow guide! Now I'm already cranking out notes for my chapters and headings and plugging my research into the program. Thank you for helping me get started!
Thank you very much for this video. Please make more shorter Scrivener videos on specific features. Honestly this has been one of the easiest to understand.
The developers, Literature and Latte have a youtube channel and they have tons of short videos on specific features! They'd be a great place to look for videos on any of the features I mentioned as well as so many more. :) Thanks for watching!
I believe the most important thing in academic writing is the citations and references. Can you please make a video on how you used a citations manager to insert citations and, most importantly, generate references for your thesis?
Thanks for watching! I don't use a citation manager, I do everything manually, so I don't think it would be useful for me to do a video on that topic, but I'm sure you can find a video or blog post talking about this subject from someone who knows. :)
This was the video that pushed me into purchasing Scrivener! I do love working with it. Thank you so much for taking the time to show various aspects of your dissertation. Working on my proposal now.
Thank you so much. Your video has offered the clearest demonstration for how a researcher can use Scrivener for academic writing. The official L&L tutorial is useful and tries to cover all the potential users, but it is less informative for a specific group of users, like researchers. Your video fills up the gap; I will use this app for the next papers.
Finally a video about Scrivener that is clear and helpful and well-taught. Thank you. I would like to have seen a little more on the editing capabilities, most specifically text manipulation, although I do realize that you did not intend this video to be a comprehensive list of all of the features and how they work.
Glad it was helpful! When it came to editing/formatting all of that I had to do in Word because I was sending chapters to my committee for review and they'd send it back with track changes. So Scrivener was more for organizing and drafting.
@@AndreaJSeverson I finally bought Scrivener yesterday - and your video was pivotal in me making that decision, so thank you, once again - after using it for a few days on the trial period. It is interesting how you used Scrivener, and sounds similar to the way I have decided to use it for screenplay writing, viz., I will use it as a structuring tool, and continue to write in Screenwriter 6 (which has some good outlining features, but fewer than Scrivener). I wish that Scrivener's screenwriting formatting was up to par, but it is not. I will, however, write directly in Scrivener for short story and novel writing.
I would suggest using the Quick Reference panels for the purpose of keeping written items in front of you while writing instead of the Split Editor. The reason is that the Split Editor can do things which the Quick Reference panels can not do and this video does not demonstrate those things. The questions displayed in the Split Editor in the video could just as easily have been displayed in the Quick Reference panels. Both the Corkboard and the Outliner have a footer button called the "Selection Affects Other Editor" button which shows up in the footer in split editor mode. When that button is turned on, clicking on anything in the Corkboard or the Outliner causes the relevant document to be displayed in the other editor while at the same time preserving all the information which is visible in either the Corkboard or the Outliner. This is an extremely useful feature and is in my opinion the thing which causes the Split Editor to be most effective.
I'll have to play around with what you've suggested. I haven't really done a lot with the quick reference panels, and rarely used the split editor, just love that it's there if I need it. But as I still use Scrivener for blogging and teaching I want to keep playing with it to find other features that I'm not aware of. Thanks for the comment!
There is a feature in Scrivener 3 that I have not yet utilized which extends the feature mentioned in my previous comment. This new feature is called "copyholders." Below is an article from the Scrivener developer which includes an explanation of copyholders. literatureandlatte.com/blog/scrivener-3-copyholders-and-layouts
@@AndreaJSeverson That's actually not the only case, I write my thesis in French (in a belgian Uni) and we count everything in characters. It's not actually more precise in terms of length of the paper (it is when you have to write 150 words, not when your target is 50000) but it is the norm here. Why? Couldn't tell you... Also, thanks for your awesome video, helps a bunch!!
I really appreciate this! Seeing how you used it for academic writing is super helpful. I'm pretty sure I'll get Scrivener by the time I'm ready to write my MA thesis. The organizational possibilities look amazing. I especially love the ability to set word targets - for time management and because I'm goal oriented. I wonder, do you think it's necessary/too cumbersome for shorter/smaller projects? If you had it earlier would you have used it for seminar papers?
I would absolutely use it for a seminar paper. Anything longer than 10 pages. You could also create a file/binder for each class. Then you could keep a folder with class notes, short papers, etc, and also your final paper. Everything would be in the same place. I really wish I had it during coursework. I love having everything in the same file, you can click back and forth between sections in the binder without opening a new file or going to a different window rather than having everything in different documents and different programs. So I would say get it sooner rather than later so you can play with it and test it out on smaller projects and find the ways you like using it best.
Thanks for posting this. About to start writing my Ph.D. thesis. Several fiction writers have recommended that I use Scrivener to organise my research. Somewhat intimidated by the steep learning curve required to master the package .
I highly recommend it, and there are lots of videos, particularly on the Literature & Latte CZcams channel (the creators of Scrivener) that can walk you through the individual features that I kind of quickly went over i this video (and so much more). I don't think I would have gotten my first draft completed without Scrivener. When I first started I just learned the bare bones basics and taught myself the rest along the way. :)
Thx very much for your most helpful video. I find L&L's video tutorials a little wonky, and fast; yours felt like just the right pace, and the right focus for me as I start into my dissertation writing! maybe you answer this elsewhere but did you ever encounter loss of work on Scrivener?? There's some mention of this on the Forums but it seems most related to synching issues. Cheers, michael maser
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful. I never had trouble with loss of work, but I also never tried syncing. I did make sure to save regularly though. Also, I was working on the original version of the program, I think they're now up to Scrivener 3, so they may have resolved syncing/loss of work issues.
Thanks! This video was very helpful. I have existed in the Word universe and am only just realising there is a whole other world. I am planning to do larger scale writing from now on and I think that this is the very tool to help me do that in a creative-brain friendly way.
@@AndreaJSeverson I am experimenting with a workflow that goes from Scrivener (in Multimarkdown) with Bibtex and Exporting to Latex. I just love the way latex works and I am a little bit nerdy.
Hi, I will ask you about citations and references, but I read your response about that. But, and about figures and tables, the Scrivener mannagers its? Make the index, numbering each one, manager the titles of each one of them? Make the index of chapters? Is there a tamplate of a PhD dissertation for formatation by printer?
Hi, thanks for watching. I don't know how helpful my answers will be but I'll try to provide some clarification. I didn't use any figures or tables in Scrivener, I added images once I switched over to using Word for the last bit. I also didn't do an index. This might be possible, I would recommend looking at Literature & Latte's CZcams channel to see if they have tutorials on these subjects. They're the developers of Scrivener and they have a lot of video tutorials on the different features. I have not seen a template for a PhD dissertation, probably because every university has different requirements. I did all of the formatting for printing myself in MS Word following the guidelines of my graduate college.
I've just started using Scrivenr 3 and want to use the corkboard. Is there a way to make it show all the index cards for all subdocuments at once? So I have several chapters in my binder, each with several scenes. I can show the cards for all the scenes of a given chapter, but would like to show all cards for all chapters at the same time on the corkboard. Any help gratefully accepted.
Ooh, that's a good question. I don't use subdocuments. I tried to play around with it just now but it only seems to let you look at all the cards in one folder or all the cards for all the folders but not what's in them. You could try looking at Literature & Latte's (the developer) CZcams channel to see if they have a video specifically on the index card feature. But I'm not wondering if this is why I stopped using folders and subdocuments in binder, because I like using the index card feature. Sorry I can't be more helpful!
Thanks for watching! I really wish I had found Scrivener sooner, it would have so helpful with my seminar papers long before I got to my dissertation. :)
how easy was to manage citations? and how was the exporting to word format so that the supervisor can provide feedback? how did you integrate your supervisor's feedback back in?
I don't use a citation manager, I do everything manually, so I can't speak to how it works with citations. I think there's a way to export individual chapters, but I always copy and pasted them into their own Word document and then did my edits in Word after I got feedback from my supervisor. So Scrivener was more of an outlining/organizing/drafting program for me. I still needed to use Word to finish my document.
Were you doing your citations as footnotes? What specific functionality within Scrivener were you using to cite and reference? I'm trying out Zotero, which seems good for managing a library, but I'm not sure how to connect it properly to "cite while you write" in Scrivener. I would love to know how you went about citing references.
So I followed with you on your writing progress over on insta. I was wondering if the word targets really helped stay on track? I really love all of your content, especially all of the academic focused videos. I’m getting ready to start writing my dissertation proposal and I’ve been going back through your writing videos.
Yes, they definitely helped me stay (or get back) on track. If I didn't get that far one day, I knew how much I needed to write the next day to get caught back up. So even if I didn't meet my target every day, I still averaged out by the end of the week. Good luck with your proposal! Have you read my blog posts about writing? I have a few general writing tips posts and then did a series on the dissertation process. They might be helpful to you as well. :)
Thank you for all the information. It was very comprehensive. It would have been great if you could also talk about how you did your citations using scrivener and whether or not you used any citation management software.
Thanks for watching! I didn't use a citation manager for my dissertation. Apparently I'm the only one who still manages their citations and sources manually the old fashioned way lol. That's how I learned and I just never bothered changing it. So I don't know how you would use a citation manager with Scrivener. Also, the version I'm using in this video is Scrivener 1. I now have Scrivener 3. It would be worth it to research using citation management software with Scrivener 3. I think someone had mentioned they found a video on CZcams that showed this. So it probably is possible.
So, I did some research on this, because I get asked a lot. Scrivener isn't compatible with either. For Grammarly, you'd need to copy and paste your text into their web browser version and check it there. And Scrivener isn't compatible with any citation management system. This wasn't an issue for me because I did all my citations manually. There are things Scrivener is great for and things it's not. I viewed Scrivener as a way to organize and draft my dissertation and keep everything organized in one place. But once I had chapters drafted and started sending them off to my committee I copied each chapter into a Word Doc and sent it off. There's no way to bring an edited document back into Scrivener with track changes and comments, so once I was at the editing stage I worked entirely in Word. So basically, Scrivener was where I organized and drafted, and Word was where I edited and finished the work. I still found Scrivener to be worth every penny.
Thanks for watching! To have lined index cards, go to the top menu (where it has "file", "edit", "view", etc) and click "Scrivener", then click "Preferences", then when the preferences box opens, click "Appearance" and then in the menu on the left, click "index cards". There should then be a drop down menu that you can select how you want your index cards to look. Hope this helps!
Thanks so much for the thorough introduction. Just a quick question: to get started, did you use the MLA paper template or the nonfiction book? Does it matter in your opinion or do you just end up customising whichever you choose to fit your needs anyhow?
I think I used either the MLA template or just a blank binder. I think you end up customizing whatever. I know that whatever I started with was completely different by the end, I had done so much customizing. Thanks for watching!
Thank you. This was very helpful. One question I have relates to fonts. For my dissertation I need Greek and Hebrew fonts. Does it draw the program fonts from the existing fonts on your computer? Or is it limited to fonts built for the program?
Thanks for watching. I wish I could answer your question but I never had to play with the fonts and I don't have any international fonts installed on my computer to check that for you. I would reach out to the company to ask before you download. They're called Literature and Latte, they've got a pretty good website as well as a CZcams channel of their own with lots of help videos.
Great video! Very informative! How would one format the page for APA? Can you select the entire binder to do the 2.0 line spacing, font, and size? Thanks again! I'm on PC tho.
For all the final formatting I did that in Word. I used Scrivener to draft the dissertation and then copy and pasted each chapter into a Word doc to share with my chair and committee. Then I did all my editing and formatting in Word. So I still had to use Word but I still found Scrivener with the money just for the organizing, drafting, and work flow abilities. Hope that helps, thanks for watching!
I did all my references manually. I'm also using an older version of Scrivener in this video, so if you're using a newer version you might want to try searching for reference/citation management help, they might have added that feature. Thanks for watching!
I'm not familiar with roam research. I think ultimately you have to first figure out how you work best and find a digital tool that will maximize that. For me that was Scrivener.
Great video! I'd appreciate your help with a question I have regarding footnotes in Scrivener. If I clip a paragraph with a footnote in chapter one and paste it into chapter two, will the footnote automatically be re-numbered based on where it fits in among the footnotes that were in chapter two? (I've never used Scrivener; I'm checking it out before buying.) Thanks!
I don't think I ever had to do that, so I don't know. I seem to remember having to do minor edits to my footnotes when I copied everything to MS Word for the final edits and formatting. But I think Scrivener is worth it just for it's organization and drafting capabilities.
This sounds like the best app! I do have a question: my computer is pretty old and I wanted to know if this is all saved to a specific account (ie, you have to log-in every time you use Scrivener) or if it uploads directly to a Cloud? Thank you so much for this video!
It's a software app that you download on to your computer, so you don't log in. It should auto-save all your work, but I think you can connect it to icloud or dropbox or something like that. You'd have to search for that separately to get more information. I never used a cloud service, I just backed up my Scrivener file to my external drive every so often, but a cloud service would probably be better.
This was wildly helpful. I know that there is a new version -- but one question I did have: My dissertation will require figures -- can I put those in using Scrivener or does it have to come later somehow? Would it be less helpful then?
I didn't have figures but I did have images. I think I imported the images into Scrivener into the section they would go in as an image in the inspector so I could reference it/look at it from within Scrivener, but I didn't actually put them into the document until I moved everything into Word for sharing with my committee and formatting the finished document. I didn't find this any less helpful. The way I approached it was I knew I'd still need to use Word to finish everything up, so Scrivener is more of an organizing and drafting tool. It goes along with something like Word for final edits and formatting, it's not a replacement. I think it depends on your field of study, but as someone in the humanities, Scrivener was worth its weight in gold, even if I still had to use Word in the end.
@@AndreaJSeverson Thanks for your reply! I figured you had images from the video but I was confused about whether or not you needed to wait to put them in until you exported -- not a big deal in my case but just a wonderment. :) Thanks again for the vid and response!
Thank you for your video. I personally downloaded scrivener to try writing academic paper, but it is a little bit clumsy for me to play around. It seems like I have to type the in-text citation, which is very tedious in scrivener. As I played with it for 5 minutes, I think scrivener is NOT suitable for academic project. It should be compatible with Endnote, zotero, and etc. I think If I have to serious about writing academic paper, LaTeX is my first choice. By the way, binder is very useful to organize ideas during and before writing process. For me, I think I will stay with LaTeX.
I don't think Scrivener is for everyone. I always type my own in-text citations so that wasn't an issue. I don't use Endnote or Zotero or the like, so that wasn't an issue for me. The main thing I needed was the binder aspect and being able to organize my writing. Thanks for watching!
I didn't use a template, I think I just chose blank and then built my binder from scratch based on what I needed. It's so easy to create folders and change the icons to customize it to what you need. :)
I'm not sure I fully understand your question, so forgive me if I don't answer quite right. You can drag and drop into your binder PDFs of other articles and then open them in Scrivener. You can also open them in a different window from the one you're writing in so that you can see both the PDF and what you're writing. Drag the file from your desktop into the binder side of your Scrivener window and then to open multiple windows click the little icon in the top right corner of the window where you're writing, it looks like a square with a line down the middle. Then click in the pane that you want to open the PDF in (it will be highlighted at the top) and then click on the PDF. There should be videos on Literature & Latte's website that show this process in more detail. Hope this helps!
This was really helpful - thank you! You mention you copy-pasted from scrivener to word to submit to your committee - can you give more info on that? was that by export? or who did you fix the formatting? any tips or tricks? I'm just adjusting to word now after using libre office. I would love just to use scrivener but am concerned about formatting in word. Clearly technology is not my thing. It's too bad word doesn't seem to have a functional way to organize a big project written over a long time frame which then requires some way to manage it like scrivener.
Thanks for watching! You can export/compile to a Word Doc file from Scrivener or just copy and paste it chapter by chapter. Which is what I did so that I could start doing some of the formatting as I went. Formatting was definitely tricky. My graduate college had very specific formatting guidelines, so no matte what I was going to have to do a lot of formatting on my own.
Thank you so much for this video - it's very insightful! I have one question: did Scrivener ever get "unstable" (e.g. long loading/saving time) due to the large amount of accumulated data and images?
Oooh that's a good question! So far I haven't had that problem, but I specifically limited how much I added into my binder (like images, pdfs, etc) for that reason. Also, I have Scrivener 1, they're now up to Scrivener 3, so depending on which version you have they might have added stuff to address those issues. I think one thing that helped me was that I have a relatively new MacBook Pro and I added extra memory to it to help with processing big files and programs (like editing my videos) so I think that helped Scrivener run more smoothly as well. I'd also add that things like PDFs, images, data, etc, I would add and remove as I was using them. So I had all of them in other files/places on my laptop but would add into Scrivener whatever I was working with at the time and then remove some of the extra files once I had moved on to a different section. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching!
I feel like I'm not that old but I still learned how to cite things and write my bibliography before citation managers like Mendeley or Refworks existed and it was just easier to do what I'd learned than learn a new system lol!
Hi there! This is a very helpful video on setting up the outlined and get going. However I have one question, I'm using Mendeley as my Reference management. How do I plug in the Mendeley with Scrivener? or does Scrivener only support Zotero? Thank you.
I get asked this a lot and unfortunately I'm not much help lol, I never used a citation manager. I think I've heard of people connecting it to Mendeley, and if you're using the newer version of Scrivener than the one I use (they released an updated version in 2017) then it might be easier. I would recommend searching "scrivener and mendeley" here on CZcams or Google or contacting the developers Literature and Latte. :)
We have the same question, almost all solutions on web are not intuitive, maybe because scrivener is designed to target diverse output type. One solution I am sticking right now is using odf scan from zotero, but yeah so many steps until I get the final paper which is in words.
Great video! I have a follow-up question: If you had figures and graphs, how did you handle the titles/captions for these? I have been told that Scrivener does not have any facility to do this like Word has. Mike
Thanks for watching. That's a good question, the newest version might have a way to do it, but I'm not sure. I had images but I didn't add them into the document until near the end of the writing process and by that point I had everything in MS Word and did all my major formatting using that. I would say Scrivener's strength is in helping to organize and draft ideas and to house materials (all my images were in Scrivener so I could look at them without leaving the program but I didn't format them into the pages in Scrivener). Once I had chapters ready to send to my chair and my committee and copy/pasted and formatted everything in Word and then did all my edits in Word since there's no way (that I found) import edited files with comments and track changes back into Scrivener. So, basically, you'll still need a standard word processing program like Word for final revisions and formatting, but Scrivener was still very well worth the cost just for the initial organizing and drafting stage. Hope this helps!
Thank you for sharing this valuable information about Scrivener. I have a question: Can Scrivener automatically organise my bibliography the way Microsoft Office does? The answer of this question decides my shift to Scrivener. Thank you
I'm not quite sure what you mean. How does Word automatically organize your bibliography? Are you using a citation manager? There might be a way to do that in Scrivener but you'd have to look for some other tutorials. I always manually did my citations and bibliography myself rather than let a program do that for me.
I don't use an app for those things. I have a PhD in rhetoric and writing so I just edit my own work. I have heard decent things about Grammerly though.
I was never able to figure that out. And I have an older version, so maybe the newer version finally added that in. I just always counted my footnotes separately. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the very informative video. I have been using Scrivener for some time but must confess I have not unlocked its full potential to my benefit. I noticed that you did not talk much about using in text citations and its something I am really interested in. I used Endnote and while Scrivener does not enter the in text citations in the usual format, it was convenient because each reference in Endnote has a unique identifier which could be used in Scrivener. Now I have switched to Mendeley and there is no such unique identifier so in text citations are tricky if not difficult. Do you have any suggestions?
I still haven't learned all the features Scrivener has to offer, there's so much built in to that program. Unfortunately I never really had a citation system. I never got into Endnote or things like Mendeley or RefWorks. I just handled all my citations manually, so I'm afraid I can't help with that. I would suggest scrolling through Literature & Latte's CZcams channel, they're the company that designed Scrivener. They've got lots of tutorial videos on their channel so they might have something on citations.
I did finish it but it hasn't been published so it's not publically available. But I do have a video on my channel of my full dissertation defense presentation which goes into more detail.
Nope, I do all my citations manually. That's just how I learned it way back when lol. I've never used a citation manager like Mendeley or any of the others.
Very nice video, thank you. And I am a new subscriber. I am considering using scrivener for medical legal writing and compiling reports. What are your thoughts and also are you aware of any PDF annotation capability within scrivener? Thank you in advance
QUESTIONS ABOUT CITATION MANAGERS...I get a lot of questions in the comments about citation managers so I thought I'd pin a comment at the top to address this. I didn't use a citation manager for my dissertation. Apparently I'm the only one who still manages their citations and sources manually the old fashioned way lol. That's how I learned and I just never bothered changing it. So I don't know how you would use a citation manager with Scrivener. Also, the version I'm using in this video is Scrivener 1. I now have Scrivener 3. It would be worth it to research using citation management software with Scrivener 3. I think someone had mentioned they found a video on CZcams that showed this. So it probably is possible, it's just not something I'm able to help with.
This is one of the most helpful Scrivener videos for academics I have come across. Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
It’s 2021, and this video is still relevant! I appreciate it. Thank you.
Thank you! I'm so glad it's still helpful. This was done for Scrivener 1, I now use Scrivener 3, but pretty much all of the tips are still correct for the newer version. :)
Yes this is so helpful!
Yes, SOOO helpful! Do you have any tips for how to compile with numbered headings and sections into a Table of Contents? Several dissertation/thesis posts are saying it's easy to do in Scrivener, but no one's done it and showed the result. I can't seem to get it to work despite watching lots of videos =(
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Wow this was so helpful!!! I’m about to defend my phd proposal (and begin writing) so I’m glad I came across this. I’m also really glad you’re based in the Humanities - too often PhD content on YT is STEM-based and adapting methods is a whole other exercise.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! And nice to find another Humanities person. :) I know what you mean, there's a lot of STEM peeps here on YT. Thanks for watching and good luck on your proposal!!! I've got a bunch of other PhD related videos on my experience going through a lot of the different steps if you want to check those out. :)
Just wanted to say thank you a million times over for this tutorial! I needed it for my dissertation, but the suggestion at the end to use this for setting up teaching modules was the thing that saved my life. I've been struggling for years to find a way to organize my courses and I finally feel like I have a place to brainstorm and organize so that I don't feel like I'm losing my mind every week.
Yes! It has so many more uses than just long form writing projects like novels or dissertations. I use it for teaching (especially for online courses), blogging, and starting my freelance business. And big long term project, even if it's smaller writing pieces within the project. It's just not practical to use physical binders anymore so this has been a great digital alternative. I've been meaning to film a follow up to this showing how I use it for these other projects, I'll try to do that soon! Thanks for watching! :)
I used to use Scrivener. I took a class in its use, got a book. Then I lost a project. I opened up a project I had been working on the night before and it was empty, 39,000 words gone. Not to mention the whole outline. I went for the backup, which Scrivener has a convoluted way of storing and reinstating, and it was just a bare outline. I backup my files to a cloud service in case of a drive crash, but it was just a copy of what Scrivener called a backup. I contacted my instructor, got on the forums no one could tell me where my project had gone or what I did wrong. It was just gone. Since I do not know what if anything I did wrong I just do not trust Scrivener. But, I love Scrivener's features. So, now I write in FocusWriter or Bambo Paper and cut and paste it into Scrivener. So, I can still use the features I love but if Scrivener pulls another Houdini I have another copy. I also backup the FocusWriter to the cloud. I also cut and paste to OneNote as well, color me paranoid.
Oh my gosh! I can't imagine losing a whole project like that! I'll have to look up FocusWriter and Bamboo Paper. And I don't blame you for being paranoid, I'm the same way, especially when I was writing my dissertation. Losing all of your work is the most terrifying thing I can imagine. Thanks for watching and for your comment! :)
This is always my #1 fear when starting to use a new program. I found a useful article someone wrote on the subject here: rdaleguthrie.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/scrivener-for-smarties-backups/
One of the ultra-backup methods this person suggests is to use the compile feature to export backup .rtf files that are just plain text of the entire document. I tested it (and tested the wrong ways to do it that result in just the outline, too) with the tutorial document and saved it in a note called "Scrivener backup Test". In the future, I'll probably save it as "[date] scriv backup compile" or something. To me, having a backup file that relies on only one kind of word processor to be able to open it up is not trustworthy or robust at all. I wonder if there's a way to program ctrl + S to save-as over the compile .rtf...
Absolutely brilliant, thank you so much. Scrivener appears to have an abundance of features over Latex and looks to be more user friendly. I am in the infancy of a Ph.D. and loved your video. Thank you thank you thank you.
Aww thank you! I'm glad the video was helpful. Scrivener is great, I use it for so much, even outside of academic work. Good luck with your PhD!
Best Scrivener tutorial I've seen. Literature and Latte should pay you! Thank you!!!
Wow, thanks! That's an awesome compliment!
This is the most helpful Scrivener tutorial I have watched on essay-style writing. It really showed me the tools it provides to structure both time and essay. Thank you.
I'm glad it was helpful Jenny! thanks for watching. :)
Wow! You're super organized! I really enjoyed this video. I've been using Scrivener for a few years now, but only for important academic writing projects. I've only learned the basics (enough to get by, lol), but this video inspired me to go and really explore everything that Scrivener has to offer, especially now that I've started my PhD. From seeing the headers of your dissertation, I think it's fascinating that you've done research something related to fashion! That's really cool! =)
Thanks for watching! I'm so glad this video was helpful. Good luck with your PhD work! Yes, my PhD focused on fashion rhetoric, specifically how the clothing choices of stateswomen fashion icons constructs their public identity. :)
Great video! One of the only ones focused on a dissertation, so helpful! I followed the whole tutorial manual and it did not include how to edit the target of the words, so thanks for discussing that!
The word target was a lucky discovery for me when I first got it, one of my fave features! Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful! :)
@@AndreaJSeverson Hi there! So I have bumped into a strange problem. When I go to the group mode of my draft, I have reached the target of my literature review (10.000) with 11.528 (total words), however Scrivener in the Total Progress only shows a yellow half full bar. Even though the sections included in this part are all green. What am I doing wrong? I have checked whether I need to include these sections in some way for the Total Progress, but I cannot find that option anywhere. The sections included are just text divided - they are subpages of the literature review. This is not an urgent issue, but it is kind of annoying.
Ah, I got it. I had to delete the word target for the folder, as it was included in the total target count. Now the bar is green, so much for satisfaction while writing a dissertation ;-)
I'm just starting my diss and this was so much more helpful than the Scrivener video. I was about to give up but I'm going to stick with it now!
Definitely stick with it! Scrivener made drafting my diss so much easier. Once you get used to using it, it's brilliant. :)
I am just starting with my PhD and I am so happy about your video! Thanks for all the explanations! I will use Scrivener as well now
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and good luck on your PhD!
I am looking at Scrivener now for my Master's Thesis and will use it when i continue on for my doctoral degree. Thank you so much for this video! The way you broke each section down on the basics of Scrivener has helped me tremendously!
Thank you for watching, I'm so glad this video was helpful. Good luck with your thesis and your doctorate! :)
What an excellent video. Just about to start a long project on the Greenland Norse and you have given me the confidence to delve into Scrivener and use it. If only Scrivener has existed when I wrote my PhD 30 years ago! Many thanks.
Thanks for watching! I'm so in love with Scrivener. I've gotten both my parents into using it for their writing projects. :) Your Greenland Norse project sounds fascinating! Hope you have fun! :)
The most helpful Scrivener videos for academic writing. Thank you, Andrea. Great job!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this!! I'm about to defend my proposal and start writing my dissertation in philosophy & I think this finally helped me make my text editor decision.
You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful! Good luck on your diss. It's such an exciting time when you start working on that!
Coming back to this! Not doing a dissertation but I do long form non fiction and this is a life saver, thank you
Scrivener is awesome for any long form writing. Thanks for watching! I'm glad it was helpful. :)
Thank you so much for this video. I had hit such a roadblock on how/where to get started with my diss over the last month or so, and learning a new organization program was just adding to that stress. You provided a great and easy-to-follow guide! Now I'm already cranking out notes for my chapters and headings and plugging my research into the program. Thank you for helping me get started!
I'm so happy the video helped you! Thanks for watching! Good luck with your dissertation! :)
Thank you very much for this video. Please make more shorter Scrivener videos on specific features. Honestly this has been one of the easiest to understand.
The developers, Literature and Latte have a youtube channel and they have tons of short videos on specific features! They'd be a great place to look for videos on any of the features I mentioned as well as so many more. :) Thanks for watching!
I believe the most important thing in academic writing is the citations and references. Can you please make a video on how you used a citations manager to insert citations and, most importantly, generate references for your thesis?
Thanks for watching! I don't use a citation manager, I do everything manually, so I don't think it would be useful for me to do a video on that topic, but I'm sure you can find a video or blog post talking about this subject from someone who knows. :)
This was the video that pushed me into purchasing Scrivener! I do love working with it. Thank you so much for taking the time to show various aspects of your dissertation. Working on my proposal now.
I'm so glad this video helped! Comments like these always make my day. :)
Thank you so much. Your video has offered the clearest demonstration for how a researcher can use Scrivener for academic writing. The official L&L tutorial is useful and tries to cover all the potential users, but it is less informative for a specific group of users, like researchers. Your video fills up the gap; I will use this app for the next papers.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
True that, what Jeffrey Gang said! Tremendously helpful vid on using Scrivener for dissertations. Sold me on the product.
Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy it. :)
Was skeptical at first, but good stuff. You’ve converted me.
Thanks for watching!
I am just moving to Scrivener for my thesis writing and your video was so so helpful! Thank you for making it!
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your thesis!
Finally a video about Scrivener that is clear and helpful and well-taught. Thank you.
I would like to have seen a little more on the editing capabilities, most specifically text manipulation, although I do realize that you did not intend this video to be a comprehensive list of all of the features and how they work.
Glad it was helpful! When it came to editing/formatting all of that I had to do in Word because I was sending chapters to my committee for review and they'd send it back with track changes. So Scrivener was more for organizing and drafting.
@@AndreaJSeverson I finally bought Scrivener yesterday - and your video was pivotal in me making that decision, so thank you, once again - after using it for a few days on the trial period.
It is interesting how you used Scrivener, and sounds similar to the way I have decided to use it for screenplay writing, viz., I will use it as a structuring tool, and continue to write in Screenwriter 6 (which has some good outlining features, but fewer than Scrivener). I wish that Scrivener's screenwriting formatting was up to par, but it is not.
I will, however, write directly in Scrivener for short story and novel writing.
I would suggest using the Quick Reference panels for the purpose of keeping written items in front of you while writing instead of the Split Editor. The reason is that the Split Editor can do things which the Quick Reference panels can not do and this video does not demonstrate those things. The questions displayed in the Split Editor in the video could just as easily have been displayed in the Quick Reference panels.
Both the Corkboard and the Outliner have a footer button called the "Selection Affects Other Editor" button which shows up in the footer in split editor mode. When that button is turned on, clicking on anything in the Corkboard or the Outliner causes the relevant document to be displayed in the other editor while at the same time preserving all the information which is visible in either the Corkboard or the Outliner. This is an extremely useful feature and is in my opinion the thing which causes the Split Editor to be most effective.
I'll have to play around with what you've suggested. I haven't really done a lot with the quick reference panels, and rarely used the split editor, just love that it's there if I need it. But as I still use Scrivener for blogging and teaching I want to keep playing with it to find other features that I'm not aware of. Thanks for the comment!
There is a feature in Scrivener 3 that I have not yet utilized which extends the feature mentioned in my previous comment. This new feature is called "copyholders." Below is an article from the Scrivener developer which includes an explanation of copyholders.
literatureandlatte.com/blog/scrivener-3-copyholders-and-layouts
I am thankful to you for this synthesized version. I am going to use it in a more productive way now.
Thank you Karina! I'm glad the video was helpful. :)
im watching this getting ready for my undergrad thesis! thank you for making this!
Hope it helps! Thanks for watching!
Like your workflow way of introduction. By the way, "characters" in the word count is for other languages, for example, Chinese.
Oh my gosh, I feel like such an idiot for not making that connection for character count! 🙈 Thanks for watching! 😊
@@AndreaJSeverson That's actually not the only case, I write my thesis in French (in a belgian Uni) and we count everything in characters. It's not actually more precise in terms of length of the paper (it is when you have to write 150 words, not when your target is 50000) but it is the norm here. Why? Couldn't tell you...
Also, thanks for your awesome video, helps a bunch!!
I really appreciate this! Seeing how you used it for academic writing is super helpful. I'm pretty sure I'll get Scrivener by the time I'm ready to write my MA thesis. The organizational possibilities look amazing. I especially love the ability to set word targets - for time management and because I'm goal oriented. I wonder, do you think it's necessary/too cumbersome for shorter/smaller projects? If you had it earlier would you have used it for seminar papers?
I would absolutely use it for a seminar paper. Anything longer than 10 pages. You could also create a file/binder for each class. Then you could keep a folder with class notes, short papers, etc, and also your final paper. Everything would be in the same place. I really wish I had it during coursework. I love having everything in the same file, you can click back and forth between sections in the binder without opening a new file or going to a different window rather than having everything in different documents and different programs. So I would say get it sooner rather than later so you can play with it and test it out on smaller projects and find the ways you like using it best.
Oooo awesome tips! Thanks Andrea
Thank you, it was helpful. Especially how you include the task list, and all the planning in the same file. May God bless you.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you found it helpful. :)
Thank you so much! Just starting my PhD and this was super helpful in setting up my binder.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
This did it for me. Grappling on word vs scrivener. This answered all my questions. Thank you
So glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for posting this. About to start writing my Ph.D. thesis. Several fiction writers have recommended that I use Scrivener to organise my research. Somewhat intimidated by the steep learning curve required to master the package .
I highly recommend it, and there are lots of videos, particularly on the Literature & Latte CZcams channel (the creators of Scrivener) that can walk you through the individual features that I kind of quickly went over i this video (and so much more). I don't think I would have gotten my first draft completed without Scrivener. When I first started I just learned the bare bones basics and taught myself the rest along the way. :)
Great Scrivener video for academic writing. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! :)
Thx very much for your most helpful video. I find L&L's video tutorials a little wonky, and fast; yours felt like just the right pace, and the right focus for me as I start into my dissertation writing! maybe you answer this elsewhere but did you ever encounter loss of work on Scrivener?? There's some mention of this on the Forums but it seems most related to synching issues. Cheers, michael maser
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful. I never had trouble with loss of work, but I also never tried syncing. I did make sure to save regularly though. Also, I was working on the original version of the program, I think they're now up to Scrivener 3, so they may have resolved syncing/loss of work issues.
Thank you very much for sharing this! The most helpful video I've ever seen for an app.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it was helpful!
Thanks! This video was very helpful. I have existed in the Word universe and am only just realising there is a whole other world. I am planning to do larger scale writing from now on and I think that this is the very tool to help me do that in a creative-brain friendly way.
I still used Word at the end but as far as organizing and drafting the dissertation I could't have done it without Scrivener. :) Thanks for watching!
@@AndreaJSeverson I am experimenting with a workflow that goes from Scrivener (in Multimarkdown) with Bibtex and Exporting to Latex. I just love the way latex works and I am a little bit nerdy.
Hi, I will ask you about citations and references, but I read your response about that.
But, and about figures and tables, the Scrivener mannagers its? Make the index, numbering each one, manager the titles of each one of them? Make the index of chapters? Is there a tamplate of a PhD dissertation for formatation by printer?
Hi, thanks for watching. I don't know how helpful my answers will be but I'll try to provide some clarification. I didn't use any figures or tables in Scrivener, I added images once I switched over to using Word for the last bit. I also didn't do an index. This might be possible, I would recommend looking at Literature & Latte's CZcams channel to see if they have tutorials on these subjects. They're the developers of Scrivener and they have a lot of video tutorials on the different features. I have not seen a template for a PhD dissertation, probably because every university has different requirements. I did all of the formatting for printing myself in MS Word following the guidelines of my graduate college.
@@AndreaJSeverson Ok, thanks a lot!
2024... and this is still relevant. thanks for sharing this!
Glad it was still helpful! Thanks for watching!
I've just started using Scrivenr 3 and want to use the corkboard. Is there a way to make it show all the index cards for all subdocuments at once? So I have several chapters in my binder, each with several scenes. I can show the cards for all the scenes of a given chapter, but would like to show all cards for all chapters at the same time on the corkboard. Any help gratefully accepted.
Ooh, that's a good question. I don't use subdocuments. I tried to play around with it just now but it only seems to let you look at all the cards in one folder or all the cards for all the folders but not what's in them. You could try looking at Literature & Latte's (the developer) CZcams channel to see if they have a video specifically on the index card feature. But I'm not wondering if this is why I stopped using folders and subdocuments in binder, because I like using the index card feature. Sorry I can't be more helpful!
Thank you for such a pedagogical introduction to Scrivener!
Thanks for watching!
Still very helpful! Thanks a lot! :)
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video I really learned a lot and feel motivated to using it for my semester report and master's thesis. Thanks!
Thanks for watching! I really wish I had found Scrivener sooner, it would have so helpful with my seminar papers long before I got to my dissertation. :)
Thank you. That was most helpful. I will use some of your layout in my upcoming master’s thesis. Many thanks.
Thanks for watching! Good luck on your thesis! :)
2024 still relevant thanks so much for this. It has given me some more tips for Scrivener
Glad it helped!
Found this really interesting and will look into using it for future projects :)
I'll show you more when you get here. I love it for blogging, so I still use it on a daily basis.
Excellent video! Thank you so much it was super helpful as a new PhD student, this is going to take me far in organizing my research and work!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it was helpful. Good luck on your PhD journey! :)
how easy was to manage citations? and how was the exporting to word format so that the supervisor can provide feedback? how did you integrate your supervisor's feedback back in?
I don't use a citation manager, I do everything manually, so I can't speak to how it works with citations. I think there's a way to export individual chapters, but I always copy and pasted them into their own Word document and then did my edits in Word after I got feedback from my supervisor. So Scrivener was more of an outlining/organizing/drafting program for me. I still needed to use Word to finish my document.
Were you doing your citations as footnotes? What specific functionality within Scrivener were you using to cite and reference? I'm trying out Zotero, which seems good for managing a library, but I'm not sure how to connect it properly to "cite while you write" in Scrivener. I would love to know how you went about citing references.
So I followed with you on your writing progress over on insta. I was wondering if the word targets really helped stay on track? I really love all of your content, especially all of the academic focused videos. I’m getting ready to start writing my dissertation proposal and I’ve been going back through your writing videos.
Yes, they definitely helped me stay (or get back) on track. If I didn't get that far one day, I knew how much I needed to write the next day to get caught back up. So even if I didn't meet my target every day, I still averaged out by the end of the week. Good luck with your proposal! Have you read my blog posts about writing? I have a few general writing tips posts and then did a series on the dissertation process. They might be helpful to you as well. :)
Thank you for all the information. It was very comprehensive. It would have been great if you could also talk about how you did your citations using scrivener and whether or not you used any citation management software.
Thanks for watching! I didn't use a citation manager for my dissertation. Apparently I'm the only one who still manages their citations and sources manually the old fashioned way lol. That's how I learned and I just never bothered changing it. So I don't know how you would use a citation manager with Scrivener. Also, the version I'm using in this video is Scrivener 1. I now have Scrivener 3. It would be worth it to research using citation management software with Scrivener 3. I think someone had mentioned they found a video on CZcams that showed this. So it probably is possible.
@@AndreaJSeverson Thank you for your reply. This is indeed very helpful. : )
Excellent video, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
A question - l am a Mac user, is Scrivener compatible with Grammarly and Mendeley, thanks Britt
So, I did some research on this, because I get asked a lot. Scrivener isn't compatible with either. For Grammarly, you'd need to copy and paste your text into their web browser version and check it there. And Scrivener isn't compatible with any citation management system. This wasn't an issue for me because I did all my citations manually. There are things Scrivener is great for and things it's not. I viewed Scrivener as a way to organize and draft my dissertation and keep everything organized in one place. But once I had chapters drafted and started sending them off to my committee I copied each chapter into a Word Doc and sent it off. There's no way to bring an edited document back into Scrivener with track changes and comments, so once I was at the editing stage I worked entirely in Word. So basically, Scrivener was where I organized and drafted, and Word was where I edited and finished the work. I still found Scrivener to be worth every penny.
Thanks a lot for sharing! Very inspiring :))
Thanks for watching!
Very nice video! I have been thinking about a writing app and your video has definitely helped me to make a decision! thank you!
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful. :)
i have scrivener 3 since yesterday and it just cant figure out how to make the cards lined like you did. Can someone explain please?
Thanks for watching! To have lined index cards, go to the top menu (where it has "file", "edit", "view", etc) and click "Scrivener", then click "Preferences", then when the preferences box opens, click "Appearance" and then in the menu on the left, click "index cards". There should then be a drop down menu that you can select how you want your index cards to look. Hope this helps!
@@AndreaJSeverson found it! thank you :)
Thanks so much for the thorough introduction. Just a quick question: to get started, did you use the MLA paper template or the nonfiction book? Does it matter in your opinion or do you just end up customising whichever you choose to fit your needs anyhow?
I think I used either the MLA template or just a blank binder. I think you end up customizing whatever. I know that whatever I started with was completely different by the end, I had done so much customizing. Thanks for watching!
Thank you. This was very helpful. One question I have relates to fonts. For my dissertation I need Greek and Hebrew fonts. Does it draw the program fonts from the existing fonts on your computer? Or is it limited to fonts built for the program?
Thanks for watching. I wish I could answer your question but I never had to play with the fonts and I don't have any international fonts installed on my computer to check that for you. I would reach out to the company to ask before you download. They're called Literature and Latte, they've got a pretty good website as well as a CZcams channel of their own with lots of help videos.
@@AndreaJSeverson Thank you for your response. I will reach out to them.
Great video! Very informative! How would one format the page for APA? Can you select the entire binder to do the 2.0 line spacing, font, and size? Thanks again! I'm on PC tho.
For all the final formatting I did that in Word. I used Scrivener to draft the dissertation and then copy and pasted each chapter into a Word doc to share with my chair and committee. Then I did all my editing and formatting in Word. So I still had to use Word but I still found Scrivener with the money just for the organizing, drafting, and work flow abilities. Hope that helps, thanks for watching!
@@AndreaJSeverson Aw! that makes sense! Thanks so much for the info!!
Great, thank you so much for this! I've made copious notes. Thanks again.
Great! I hope it helps. Thanks for watching. :)
Hey, Thanks for very interesting and valuable presentation. How could manage reference s? Does it automatically ;;y create?
I did all my references manually. I'm also using an older version of Scrivener in this video, so if you're using a newer version you might want to try searching for reference/citation management help, they might have added that feature. Thanks for watching!
Wow so much amazing helpful info! thanks!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it was helpful.
I wonder how you would think of roam research. i am looking for an efficient way to do academic research papers.
I'm not familiar with roam research. I think ultimately you have to first figure out how you work best and find a digital tool that will maximize that. For me that was Scrivener.
Hi Scrivener use marckdown text? Do you know?
I don't know. I don't use markdown text. You'd have to google it to see if you can find more information about that. Thanks for watching!
Great video! I'd appreciate your help with a question I have regarding footnotes in Scrivener. If I clip a paragraph with a footnote in chapter one and paste it into chapter two, will the footnote automatically be re-numbered based on where it fits in among the footnotes that were in chapter two? (I've never used Scrivener; I'm checking it out before buying.) Thanks!
I don't think I ever had to do that, so I don't know. I seem to remember having to do minor edits to my footnotes when I copied everything to MS Word for the final edits and formatting. But I think Scrivener is worth it just for it's organization and drafting capabilities.
Thank you very much for sharing this. It is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
This sounds like the best app! I do have a question: my computer is pretty old and I wanted to know if this is all saved to a specific account (ie, you have to log-in every time you use Scrivener) or if it uploads directly to a Cloud? Thank you so much for this video!
It's a software app that you download on to your computer, so you don't log in. It should auto-save all your work, but I think you can connect it to icloud or dropbox or something like that. You'd have to search for that separately to get more information. I never used a cloud service, I just backed up my Scrivener file to my external drive every so often, but a cloud service would probably be better.
This has been very helpful, thank you so much!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it helped. :)
Thank you!!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
This was wildly helpful. I know that there is a new version -- but one question I did have: My dissertation will require figures -- can I put those in using Scrivener or does it have to come later somehow? Would it be less helpful then?
I didn't have figures but I did have images. I think I imported the images into Scrivener into the section they would go in as an image in the inspector so I could reference it/look at it from within Scrivener, but I didn't actually put them into the document until I moved everything into Word for sharing with my committee and formatting the finished document. I didn't find this any less helpful. The way I approached it was I knew I'd still need to use Word to finish everything up, so Scrivener is more of an organizing and drafting tool. It goes along with something like Word for final edits and formatting, it's not a replacement. I think it depends on your field of study, but as someone in the humanities, Scrivener was worth its weight in gold, even if I still had to use Word in the end.
@@AndreaJSeverson Thanks for your reply! I figured you had images from the video but I was confused about whether or not you needed to wait to put them in until you exported -- not a big deal in my case but just a wonderment. :) Thanks again for the vid and response!
Thank you for your video. I personally downloaded scrivener to try writing academic paper, but it is a little bit clumsy for me to play around. It seems like I have to type the in-text citation, which is very tedious in scrivener. As I played with it for 5 minutes, I think scrivener is NOT suitable for academic project. It should be compatible with Endnote, zotero, and etc. I think If I have to serious about writing academic paper, LaTeX is my first choice. By the way, binder is very useful to organize ideas during and before writing process. For me, I think I will stay with LaTeX.
I don't think Scrivener is for everyone. I always type my own in-text citations so that wasn't an issue. I don't use Endnote or Zotero or the like, so that wasn't an issue for me. The main thing I needed was the binder aspect and being able to organize my writing. Thanks for watching!
Thank you!!! Which template did you use for this? There does not seem to be a specific dissertation set up? Thank you.
I didn't use a template, I think I just chose blank and then built my binder from scratch based on what I needed. It's so easy to create folders and change the icons to customize it to what you need. :)
@@AndreaJSeverson Thank you so much. I have done that now! So happy to have everything in one place!!!
Thank you so much. Very helpful.
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This was great - THANKS!
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This video is good karma ! thanks so much !
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If I like say some text in one article and I want to use it for my dissertation.. Is there any way to save that in Scrievener
I'm not sure I fully understand your question, so forgive me if I don't answer quite right. You can drag and drop into your binder PDFs of other articles and then open them in Scrivener. You can also open them in a different window from the one you're writing in so that you can see both the PDF and what you're writing. Drag the file from your desktop into the binder side of your Scrivener window and then to open multiple windows click the little icon in the top right corner of the window where you're writing, it looks like a square with a line down the middle. Then click in the pane that you want to open the PDF in (it will be highlighted at the top) and then click on the PDF. There should be videos on Literature & Latte's website that show this process in more detail. Hope this helps!
This was really helpful - thank you! You mention you copy-pasted from scrivener to word to submit to your committee - can you give more info on that? was that by export? or who did you fix the formatting? any tips or tricks? I'm just adjusting to word now after using libre office. I would love just to use scrivener but am concerned about formatting in word. Clearly technology is not my thing. It's too bad word doesn't seem to have a functional way to organize a big project written over a long time frame which then requires some way to manage it like scrivener.
Thanks for watching! You can export/compile to a Word Doc file from Scrivener or just copy and paste it chapter by chapter. Which is what I did so that I could start doing some of the formatting as I went. Formatting was definitely tricky. My graduate college had very specific formatting guidelines, so no matte what I was going to have to do a lot of formatting on my own.
Thanks! This was very helpful and motivational.
Thanks for watching! Glad it helped. :)
Thank you so much for this video - it's very insightful! I have one question: did Scrivener ever get "unstable" (e.g. long loading/saving time) due to the large amount of accumulated data and images?
Oooh that's a good question! So far I haven't had that problem, but I specifically limited how much I added into my binder (like images, pdfs, etc) for that reason. Also, I have Scrivener 1, they're now up to Scrivener 3, so depending on which version you have they might have added stuff to address those issues. I think one thing that helped me was that I have a relatively new MacBook Pro and I added extra memory to it to help with processing big files and programs (like editing my videos) so I think that helped Scrivener run more smoothly as well. I'd also add that things like PDFs, images, data, etc, I would add and remove as I was using them. So I had all of them in other files/places on my laptop but would add into Scrivener whatever I was working with at the time and then remove some of the extra files once I had moved on to a different section. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching!
@@AndreaJSeverson Thank you so much for your reply! It's very helpful!
Thanks, this really helped.
Glad it helped!
That's awesome. Could you give us an idea of how you handle citations?
I did all of my citations manually, I just entered them myself. :) I guess I'm just old fashioned.
JeSuisJusteMoi 😎 or you are just a hard worker ... 🙏
I feel like I'm not that old but I still learned how to cite things and write my bibliography before citation managers like Mendeley or Refworks existed and it was just easier to do what I'd learned than learn a new system lol!
Please bibliographies with zotero? HOW. THANKS
To my knowledge Scrivener doesn't integrate with Zotero or any other citation manager. But I don't use them anyway so that wasn't a deal break for me.
Hi there! This is a very helpful video on setting up the outlined and get going.
However I have one question, I'm using Mendeley as my Reference management. How do I plug in the Mendeley with Scrivener? or does Scrivener only support Zotero? Thank you.
I get asked this a lot and unfortunately I'm not much help lol, I never used a citation manager. I think I've heard of people connecting it to Mendeley, and if you're using the newer version of Scrivener than the one I use (they released an updated version in 2017) then it might be easier. I would recommend searching "scrivener and mendeley" here on CZcams or Google or contacting the developers Literature and Latte. :)
Did you ever figure this out? I have the same question.
We have the same question, almost all solutions on web are not intuitive, maybe because scrivener is designed to target diverse output type. One solution I am sticking right now is using odf scan from zotero, but yeah so many steps until I get the final paper which is in words.
Great video!
I have a follow-up question: If you had figures and graphs, how did you handle the titles/captions for these? I have been told that Scrivener does not have any facility to do this like Word has.
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Thanks for watching. That's a good question, the newest version might have a way to do it, but I'm not sure. I had images but I didn't add them into the document until near the end of the writing process and by that point I had everything in MS Word and did all my major formatting using that. I would say Scrivener's strength is in helping to organize and draft ideas and to house materials (all my images were in Scrivener so I could look at them without leaving the program but I didn't format them into the pages in Scrivener). Once I had chapters ready to send to my chair and my committee and copy/pasted and formatted everything in Word and then did all my edits in Word since there's no way (that I found) import edited files with comments and track changes back into Scrivener. So, basically, you'll still need a standard word processing program like Word for final revisions and formatting, but Scrivener was still very well worth the cost just for the initial organizing and drafting stage. Hope this helps!
@@AndreaJSeverson Thanks, this is very helpful. Good luck in your career.
Thank you! And good luck to you as well.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information about Scrivener. I have a question: Can Scrivener automatically organise my bibliography the way Microsoft Office does? The answer of this question decides my shift to Scrivener. Thank you
I'm not quite sure what you mean. How does Word automatically organize your bibliography? Are you using a citation manager? There might be a way to do that in Scrivener but you'd have to look for some other tutorials. I always manually did my citations and bibliography myself rather than let a program do that for me.
Excellent into for beginners! Thank you!
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful. :)
Lovely girl and lovely video. thanks very much I have ever wanted this and it is here :)
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it was helpful! :)
What app do you use for Editing Novel for grammar, sentence structure and punctuation & spelling?
I don't use an app for those things. I have a PhD in rhetoric and writing so I just edit my own work. I have heard decent things about Grammerly though.
Wow fantastic！ Thank you so much！
Glad you liked it!
Super helpful! Quick question: How do I make project targets that will include footnotes as well in the word count? Thanks!
I was never able to figure that out. And I have an older version, so maybe the newer version finally added that in. I just always counted my footnotes separately. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the very informative video. I have been using Scrivener for some time but must confess I have not unlocked its full potential to my benefit. I noticed that you did not talk much about using in text citations and its something I am really interested in. I used Endnote and while Scrivener does not enter the in text citations in the usual format, it was convenient because each reference in Endnote has a unique identifier which could be used in Scrivener. Now I have switched to Mendeley and there is no such unique identifier so in text citations are tricky if not difficult. Do you have any suggestions?
I still haven't learned all the features Scrivener has to offer, there's so much built in to that program. Unfortunately I never really had a citation system. I never got into Endnote or things like Mendeley or RefWorks. I just handled all my citations manually, so I'm afraid I can't help with that. I would suggest scrolling through Literature & Latte's CZcams channel, they're the company that designed Scrivener. They've got lots of tutorial videos on their channel so they might have something on citations.
Hi Kmader, 6 years on I've arrived at the point as you regarding Mendeley and Scrivener. Were you able to crack this puzzle?
Did you finish your thesis? The little bits I read in the video I'm interested in reading more.
I did finish it but it hasn't been published so it's not publically available. But I do have a video on my channel of my full dissertation defense presentation which goes into more detail.
A big thank you from Brazil
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Thank you!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Maybe do you cite using mendeley or something?
Nope, I do all my citations manually. That's just how I learned it way back when lol. I've never used a citation manager like Mendeley or any of the others.
@@AndreaJSeverson Ok, thanks. And whoops, I somehow totally missed your pinned comment, where you have already answered that.. :)
No worries! I wish I had a better answer or could be more helpful lol.
Very nice video, thank you. And I am a new subscriber. I am considering using scrivener for medical legal writing and compiling reports. What are your thoughts and also are you aware of any PDF annotation capability within scrivener? Thank you in advance
I’m not aware of that feature in scrivener. I usually annotate in a different app on my iPad and then can import it to scrivener from there.
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Thank you! Cheers!
This was so helpful thank you!!
Thanks for watching!