Speaker 1: As many of you know, I've been working on a personal project for a long time and I've basically been writing a lot, so I want to show you exactly how I have been using Scrivener lately to do most of my writing. And for that I'm going to show you the tutorial and I'm going to show you a demo project from a couple of years ago, so you can see exactly what are the features that I like the most and how I believe they may help you with your own writing, whether that's fiction, nonfiction or academic writing. So the first thing I really love about Scrivener is the binder section and in your binder you can write all of the chapters for your book, as well as assign front matter and back matter materials and organize all of your ideas in research separately. This basically means that when you compile your book, Scrivener will use your front matter, back matter and all the files under your manuscript lists, but it will remove all notes, ideas and research, so you don't have to individually pick the things you want to compile into your finalized product. You also have three different views. Scrivening, the cork board and the outline. Here you're seeing the cork board, which allows you to visually see all the different components in your manuscript. With the outline, you can see different options and properties for all of your writing, so you can have status label, section type and total target words, as well as total work in progress. You can also assign whether that's a revised draft, a final draft, other types of properties that you think will be useful to review your manuscript. Now you're seeing a demo here and basically each folder is a chapter and you can insert scenes into one of the chapters. The demo you're seeing here is actually a nonfiction book, so this basically has different topics on productivity, but every time you click a new folder, this means that once you compile your e-book, each one of those folders will be considered a separate chapter and each one of those little notes, like introduction, the mindful student, etc. will be considered a scene. You can click and drag things around to change scenes between chapters, which is incredibly useful and is something you cannot do in something like a typical word processor like Microsoft Word. And you can do things like change icons to really understand what's going on in each one of the scenes. And at the top of the screen, you have your project targets and this is very useful. You can have a manuscript target, which means you are deciding the amount of words for your completed project, and you can also have a session target, which is really useful if you're writing with a specific word count in mind. Then the inspector, which is the right tab you're seeing here, is where Scrivener really shines. The inspector basically provides you with a lot of very useful information on your manuscript. One of the things that it does beautifully is allow you to take snapshots. So snapshots are basically different versions of the document you're reading. Sometimes you want to make sure that you are saving a version of a certain chapter, for instance for a thesis, but you still want to rewrite it and then compare both versions. So with snapshots you can do that. You can also add inline comments as well as comments on the side and you're going to use this inspector view to see a list of all of your comments and footnotes. Once you hit the compile button, you can choose different formats for exporting. So you can use paperback, manuscript, approved copy, and so forth. This is incredibly useful for things like just writing fiction or nonfiction, as well as something a little bit more academic like a thesis. I also wanted to show you revision mode and revision mode works a little bit differently from most word processors. Basically with Scrivener, once you hit revision mode, it changes the color of the font so you can see exactly what you are adding to this new version. As you shift between first revision, second revision, the color also changes. And as you start writing more documents in Scrivener, you'll find it more natural to pinpoint exactly what is one of the revisions and what is the other. In the inspector view, you also have a place for the synopsis of each one of your scenes or chapters as well as notes. And this is also a very very helpful setting. You can click this button to see different parts of your manuscript in the same place. If you're using something as reference for something you're writing, this allows you to open two things at the same time but you're always in the same window. So unlike Microsoft Word, which basically forces you to open two different files and then use whatever software you want to use to open those tabs side by side, with Scrivener you can do everything in one place only. And of course that I suggest you to schedule all of your writing sessions in one place if you're working on a big project and I recommend that you use Accuflow for this. And there's no better tool for integrating all these habits than an app specifically designed for calendar blocking. And Accuflow, our kind sponsor for today's video, excels in doing precisely that. Not only is Accuflow a beautifully designed time blocking platform, it also significantly simplifies your life by consolidating tasks from various apps. 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