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Decent internet access at home and when out and about (eg by using cafe wifi, or tethering to your phone’s data).įortunately, Scrivener for Windows includes a feature for syncing the contents of a project to an external folder.I use something called Caret, and unfortunately Google Docs isn’t an option – more on this in a moment.

A text editor on your Chromebook which can edit text files.

A cloud storage account such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

The Mac version should work, too, of course, but I don’t have a way of testing it (the Mac version is also more advanced than the current Windows version, at the time of writing). What you need to do is sync your project to a format which Chromebooks can access. And while you technically can rummage about and access any of the component pieces in a project, you don’t want to accidentally break anything. The problem is that Scrivener uses its own file format, which makes accessing the contents of a project tricky from anything which isn’t Scrivener. I also wanted to be able to access my Scrivener projects directly so that I could refer to previous chapters, edit existing work and consult my notes. While there’s nothing to stop me from writing into a Google doc and then transferring it into Scrivener when I get back home, it’s not an elegant solution and can cause problems with different versions of the same text.

#SCRIVENER WINDOWS TUTORIAL HOW TO#

You should always do this anyway ( here’s how to cheaply and securely backup your stuff) but make sure you do so before trying out the following. Header p hoto by Alexa Mazzarello on Unsplash.įirst up, make sure you have a backup of your work.

#SCRIVENER WINDOWS TUTORIAL PC#

This is hardly a surprise, of course – it is ChromeOS, after all – but as I flit between a Windows desktop PC and a super lightweight Chromebook I needed a way to maintain my Scrivener workflow when out and about. It’s available on Mac and PC, though awkwardly in slightly different versions, but there’s no ChromeOS version or equivalent. Scrivener is the essential tool for novelists, becoming increasingly useful as your project grows in length and complexity.