This morning you all went to Scrambler Maria’s
at Polaris for your and Carol’s 49th Anniversary breakfast.
Yesterday went well. Everyone invited for Thanksgiving arrived and enjoyed
company and had an excellent dinner at Kim and Paul’s and at Mary Lou’s dining
room table. Fortunately you got your exercises in before the mid-day meal. Carol
made ravioli and had a side of veggies. Afterward, you both had dessert at
Graeter’s (kids’ cups with peppermint crunch ice cream, a dollop of hot fudge
and a dollop of real whip cream on top. – Amorella
1733 hours. At breakfast Paul ordered me a ‘book’ styled cover for the MacBook for
Christmas – it should arrive by Monday – nice surprise. Another surprise, this
afternoon Sharon sent us photos of Linda and our gravestones, both fittingly,
surrounded by fallen leaves. We will stop and take a look when we drive to
Cathy and Tod’s Monday afternoon. (Andy in the morning then lunch with Kim and
the boys first)
1800 hours. I decided to purchase the Scrivener app as it looks to be productive in terms of Soki’s Choice. This is from
the Tutorial.
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Scrivener
IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE WE
BEGIN
This tutorial is a Scrivener
project which has been provided to help you get started. Once you’ve finished
the tutorial, go to File > New Project to begin your own project.
WELCOME TO THE TUTORIAL
Hello, and welcome to Scrivener.
I hope you find Scrivener a useful addition to the tools you use for writing.
This tutorial is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible by
introducing you to Scrivener’s main features. For further help and a more
comprehensive description of all of Scrivener’s features, please refer to the
manual, which is available from the Help menu. You can also find video
tutorials showing how to use various features of Scrivener here:
Feel free to ask for further
assistance—and to report any bugs or problems you find—on the forums:
WHAT IS SCRIVENER?
Scrivener is aimed at
writers of all kinds—novelists, journalists, academics, screenwriters,
playwrights—who need to structure a long piece of text while referring to
research documents. Scrivener is a ring-binder, a scrapbook, a corkboard, an
outliner and text editor all rolled into one. It is primarily intended to be a
first draft tool; although it is possible to complete a project that requires
only basic formatting - such as a novel or short story - in Scrivener, often
you will want to take your draft to a dedicated word processor or layout
program for final formatting. Scrivener is intended to be a kind of “writer’s
shed” for those of us who don’t have a spare shed.
This tutorial is meant to
give you a good idea about the sorts of things Scrivener can do, and whether or
not it is the tool for you. It covers a lot of ground so will take a few hours
if you go through it thoroughly, but by the time you have completed it, you
should know everything you need to know to start using Scrivener for your own
projects, and you will be able to learn other features as you need them. Don’t
let the length of this tutorial put you off, however - it is meant to be fairly
exhaustive, but if you just want to dive in, you can just cover the main points
for now and worry about the rest later (see “Getting Started Quickly”, below).
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
This tutorial refers to
items in the toolbar by title, but the titles may not be displayed in the
toolbar by default. It may therefore be helpful to turn on toolbar titles while
going through this tutorial. To do so, ctrl-click anywhere on the toolbar (the
grey area at the top of the window with the horizontal row of icons in it) and
select “Icon and Text” from the menu that appears.
GETTING STARTED QUICKLY
If you don’t have time to go
through the whole tutorial yet, you can instead just go through the most
important sections and return to the rest whenever you want. The most important
sections have been gathered together into a “Quick Start” collection
(collections are just arbitrary lists of documents from the project). To view
the “Quick Start” collection, click on the “Collections” icon in the toolbar
(it’s the icon showing a purple filing box, second from the left) and then
choose the “Quick Start” tab in the pane that appears above the list of files
on the left (the “binder”). The left-hand binder will be replaced with a list
of the documents from the tutorial that cover the main features.
(If you go the “Quick Start”
route, it is assumed that you’ll pick up the rest either by poking around in
Scrivener and experimenting, or by returning to the other sections of the
tutorial as you need them.)
If you go through the entire
tutorial, you can safely ignore any blue boxes marked “Quick Start Note”, as
these are intended as instructions for users going only through the “Quick
Start” sections.
So, without further ado, click on “Step 1:
Beginnings” in the list on the left and let’s begin.
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After reading the above you already have
reservations, but hey, you got twenty-five percent off because it is ‘Black
Friday’. – Amorella
1811 hours. I need to go through the Tutorial, at least I’ll
begin this way. The chapter drafts I have will be revamped so I’ll assume they
are first drafts and I assume you’ll go from there. Hmm. I should have asked
first, huh?
No need. It’s your money and if it helps
reassure you that this project is plausible, not just possible, then all is
well. – Post. Amorella
We
haven’t even done the first chapter yet, boy. Post. - Amorella
You watched NBC
News, a “Doc Martin” and a “NCIS.LA”. Carol went up to read and you will be
going up to bed shortly. – Amorella
2109 hours. I would rather read the Tutorial on paper, but
it should remind me of the very basics of writing; I might learn something
useful. I realize you, the Amorella
are doing the writing, but perhaps I can be a better editor than I have been.
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