Take Control of Scrivener 2

Call Me Scrivener

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no knowledge of writing Mac applications, and wanting a word processor that would be more appropriate for his creative writing and a PhD thesis, Keith Blount thought he would delve into programming and see whether he could learn how to write the program he wanted.

After much hard work, Scrivener was born.

Note: I discuss Scrivener for iOS later in this book. Even if you only plan to use the iOS version, you should read through all the information in this book. Scrivener works in a very similar way on all platforms where it is available, so it is important to understand its basic principles as they are deployed on the desktop.

Understand the Scrivener Philosophy ...