![]() Scrivener is a complete writer’s studio suite that I feel that no other word processor can match. Its features are that good, and while that I think every author should give the free trial a go I understand that authors each have our own writing process and like our readers, with how they consume our writing, to each their own. I use Scrivener for all my long-form writing. I’m going to be focused on the 3.0 version of Scrivener, which is currently available for macOS and coming to Windows soon. It’s not as mobile friendly but as work-intensive tasks it’s better for the job. It’s fun to drive and can get you to places quickly. The analogy that I love is that the iPad is like a Ferrari. I always find myself coming back to Scrivener on the Mac to start new projects or for some tasks. As I said in last weeks post I find myself using the iOS version more and more since I use an iPad Pro for most of my working. Okay now that the little self-promotion for my website is done I’ll get back to it. If you missed it what are you waiting for? Go and read it. Now if you read last week’s post you will know that I reviewed the iOS version of Scrivener. Scrivener is a writer’s studio created for writers by writers. I was turned on to Scrivener by a college of mine and ever since trying it, I can honestly say I’ve never looked back. I then switch to Apple Pages when I converted to Mac because it was free and it’s a great word processor that filled my needs on a mobile platform. I started out in the first group working in Microsoft Word because as a former network engineer that’s what I used every day for my word processing needs. And the smallest of the groups, those that use all other word processors. Writers that use Scrivener for as an all-in-one writing platform. Those that use Microsoft Word, mostly because that’s what they grow up using. And when I do a search for “how do in scrivener”, I don’t get cranky when all the answers I find are for Mac version 3 when I’m running Windows version 1.There seem to be three camps in the writer community. ![]() Was it worth the pain and suffering of learning the new version? Yes, absolutely. If that doesn’t work and you can’t find your S1 license code, you can go here and ask them to email it to you. When I did that it found my license code from my S1 installation. When you’re ready to buy, run S3 and click the “Upgrade from an older version” link on the trial window. You can use the trial version for 30 days. Go to this page and download the free trial version first: If you have a license for S1 you may be eligible for a discount on S3, depending on when you bought S1. Eventually I converted all the remaining files to S3 and never went back to S1. Once I was comfortable with it (meaning I would get really frustrated when I had to work in S1) I started converting my files to S3 as I needed to work with them. I used my links to the S1 program to work with my “live” files while I climbed that learning curve. I opened it in S3 and it immediately made a backup, which I deleted because I didn’t need a backup of a copy. When I first installed the beta, I made a copy of one of my Scrivener files so that I could learn the new software. I’ve been running beta versions of S3 for over a year. S3 does not import anything from S1, so if you’ve customized some of the global settings you’ll have to re-do them in S3.Before you install S3, make sure you have a link to the S1 program somewhere… pinned to the start menu, pinned to the taskbar, and/or a shortcut on your desktop. If you click on a Scrivener file, it will open in S3. Scrivener 3 will become the default application for Scrivener files.If you open an S1 file in S3, it will make a backup of the S1 file in the same directory, and then convert the file to the new format. DO NOT install it into your current Scrivener directory! Scrivener 3 (S3 hereafter) installs into a new directory, ‘Scrivener3’ by default.But you can run both versions for a while to ease the pain. You’ll be moving to the equivalent of Mac versions 2 and 3. If you’re already using Scrivener 1, there’s going to be a bit of a learning curve. So if you’re a Windows user who’s been jealous of your Mac friends using all those fancy new features, you can rejoice now. No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Day joke! The Windows version of Scrivener 3 has finally been released.
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