![]() ![]() When you sign up for a free Dropbox account, Dropbox will automatically put a folder on your desktop. Dropbox allows you to have a folder on its cloud for free (up to 2 GB, which is plenty for a Scrivener file). Now, Scrivener’s default is to back up its file on your hard drive, but if your hard drive crashes, you’re out of luck. Dropbox is the cloud that keeps my Scrivener file secure Plus, Scrivener automatically backs itself up every time you close it out. I can organize them within folders and copy and paste between documents, but since it all happens within the global file, so it’s fast and easy to see where everything is at a glance. ![]() Within my one, global file, I can quickly click through any of my text documents to see what I’ve written. Scrivener allows you to open up a global file. Combining texts from different documents is a hazardous headache at best. To see what you’ve written in each document, you have to double-click the icon, wait for the document to open up, and finally remember what you’ve written there. If you use Microsoft Word for your writing projects, you probably have several folders on your desktop (or wherever), and inside each folder you have more folders, and inside each of those folders is a bunch of Word documents. I hadn’t heard of Scrivener until a client brought it to my attention earlier this year, but once I tried it out, I was completely hooked. Scrivener is an ever-expanding, all-encompassing binder Links to each of the writing tools are at the end of this post. So, here’s the video, and I describe each a bit more in the text after the video. I’ll go through each of the software apps here, but I’ve also created a workshop video, so you can actually see the interfaces of Scrivener, Dropbox, and Evernote on my laptop. If my hard drive ever crashes, all I’ll need to do is spend 10 minutes downloading software, log back into the cloud storage, and it’ll be like nothing catastrophic ever happened. ![]() Using these three programs together, I have created a beautiful little system that makes it simple for me to collect bits of writing for different contexts and review them all easily, to capture ideas as the come to me, and to ensure that everything is backed up onto the cloud. Today I am sharing my three favorite writing tools for staying organized in my own, personal writing: Scrivener, Dropbox, and Evernote. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |