Scrivener is advertised as a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors. The program provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. "This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including rich text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts. After writing a text, the user may export it for final formatting to a standard word processor, screenwriting software, desktop publishing software, or TeX."[1]
One thing they don't mention is that Scrivener is great for organizing genealogical projects!
Kimberly Powell will be leading a hands-on workshop that will teach you how to utilize Scrivener to help plan, organize, write, and publish your family research. You’ll learn how to set up your project, navigate Scrivener’s various tools and features, plan and organize your research, write, revise, and export. Skip the frustration and learn how to get Scrivener to do what you need right from the start!
Note: While we will touch on ways that Scrivener can be used for different types of family history writing (books, blogs, etc.), this workshop will also lead you through a research report from beginning to end—how to organize and set up your research and writing areas when you're starting a new project, how to create a custom template you can use for future projects, how to look at your research and writing in different ways with Scrivener's tools, how to write research notes as you go, and how to format for export into Word or RTF format. The skills will easily translate to other types of writing projects.
You can find out more about the Scrivener program here.
Registration opens on September 15th!
[1] Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrivener : accessed 29 August 2018), "Scrivener."
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