• At the time of writing, this application has the incredible rating of 100% 5-stars from users. That might be your first hint that this is something special.
• My first inkling that Scrivener was ‘made of awesome’, was when I heard tech journalist Andy Ihnatko waxing lyrical about it, on a podcast.
• Very feature deep and customisable app.

Scrivener is a powerful content generation tool that allows you to compose and structure long (and longish) articles. It’s too simplistic to view this as a word processor; it’s like a writing studio, with a phenomenal depth and breadth of functionality. It includes a tremendous amount of useful tools, in _one_ application.

Scrivener is a

• Ring Binder
• A corkboard
• An outliner
• A text editor

.. all rolled into one.

Any project that requires collecting research notes, ordering and sorting ideas, shuffling index cards, producing edited texts, will benefit from the rich functionality of Scrivener. You don’t have to use all of features, just use the ones that you need.

There is a slight learning curve, but it’s most definitely worth investing a little time (i.e. 35 minutes) watching a video tutorial showing you every feature that you, as a writer, could possibly dream of. In the ‘writer’ description I include: journalists, people doing coursework for school or uni. I can’t imagine a more perfect solution. (I wish I had this when I ‘were a lad’, kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it)

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