Notetaking and PDF Platforms: Scrivener

Scrivener acts like an organizational story board and binder. Scrivener will be most useful for those looking to plan, create, and organize long-form writing. Access to Scrivener will require purchasing a license. Separate licenses will be required for use on multiple devices. It has much more content options than other note-taking platforms and may require an “orientation period”.

Scrivener is stored on your hard drive and will require space for file storage.

Features:

  • Break up writing into nesting folders and pages. Get an overview of content with the “storyboard view”

 

Showing Scrivener platform, with storyboard of five square boards to organize research.
  • Add notes and comments to pages, use tags and keywords to sort information
  • Add custom metadata to pages
  • Add images, mp3, and pdf files
  • Track previous versions of documents through “snapshots”
  • Automatic saving and backup
  • Export pages and Scrivener project for use in other platforms