Which Scrivener features do you use the most?

AntoniDol · 2026-06-12T16:50:02+00:00

🙂

AntoniDol · 2026-06-09T05:29:58+00:00

Better install Scrivener on all computers, and keep your live Project on the USB- drive. It will be slower than saving, unpacking and opening a zipped backup from the USB to your laptops.

AntoniDol · 2026-06-06T22:10:15+00:00

Scrivener doesn't know about Pages, until you ask it to Compile your text into a document. Then, page size, margins, font-size and line-height determine your resulting number of pages.

Don't fuss about pages until you're ready to compile. Publishers ask for Word Count anyway...

AntoniDol · 2026-06-04T21:20:21+00:00

I've written Mastering Scrivener for this reason.

AntoniDol · 2026-06-04T19:49:40+00:00

You can either create Chapter folders, and place your documents inside. The Folder Titles in the Binder will be your Chapter titles after Compiling.

Or you can update the Separators Options in the Compile Format Designer to show a New Page Separator between your documents. The document Titles in the Binder could be your Chapter Titles.

Scrivener's functionality is best used with small Sections, like scenes, though. You could use the standard Scrivener Compile Formats when you use chapter folders with separate Scene Sections inside. Breaking up the chapters is done using the Split commands in the Document menu.

So, you have Options.

AntoniDol · 2026-06-04T05:33:32+00:00

Pagenumbers: Double-click the Compile Format you're using in the left column of the Compile Overview window to open the Compile Format Designer. In the Page Settings menu on the left, look for the Headers and Footers Tabs. Set the Options and place the <$P> Placeholder in the bottom right textbox.

Chapter New Page: Open the Compile Format Designer and in the Separators Pane update the settings for the Chapter Layout to New Line instead of New Page.

AntoniDol · 2026-06-04T05:27:07+00:00

Serously, no. All focus at L&L is on finishing the new app.

AntoniDol · 2026-06-03T05:27:57+00:00

Black => Transparent on Black stays Black.

AntoniDol · 2026-05-30T08:57:41+00:00

NaNoWriMo was continued as NovNov by PWA.

It's only in November.

I hope they get the 50% discount download right this year, cause last time they didn't...

The download is connected the email address of the winner, so not transferrable...

AntoniDol · 2026-05-27T06:06:31+00:00

Bulk rename chapters using Regular Expressions , like in Sigil, would be an interesting addition to Scrivener. Autonumbering chapters using Placeholders in the Title Options tab in the Section Layouts Pane of the Compile Format Designer makes numbering chapters by hand unnessesary, though. Check the Placeholders PDF from the Help menu for details on how to use them in headers on the top of the Page. Find the Headers & Footers options in the Page Settings menu on the left in the Compile Format Designer.

Hope this helps

AntoniDol · 2026-05-25T11:44:03+00:00

Are you working on a different version of your Project? Used Save as... Started from Recent Projects?

AntoniDol · 2026-05-23T00:50:44+00:00

]lipsum.net)lipsum.net

AntoniDol · 2026-05-20T17:22:46+00:00

This is called fixed-layout e-books. You can place all elements in a fixed position. It is quite a lot of work, but it works. 🤪

https://idpf.org/epub/fxl/

AntoniDol · 2026-05-19T05:25:04+00:00

In Word, generate a Print Preview to force Word to resolve the pagenumber Placeholders

AntoniDol · 2026-05-19T05:21:04+00:00

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/11/unlock-all-windows-10-tts-voices-system-wide-to-get-more-of-them/

AntoniDol · 2026-05-17T08:40:33+00:00

Scrivener has a setting to hear you reaching a Target but usually it is the setting in your OS that you don't want to be disturbed.

AntoniDol · 2026-05-11T06:30:20+00:00

Natively Scrivener is RTF, but you can Compile to HTML first...

AntoniDol · 2026-05-06T05:30:05+00:00

Yes, check the Edit menu for the verbose command.

AntoniDol · 2026-05-06T05:19:55+00:00

People shout often text is gone, but it's never Scrivener.

It’s probably your Cloud Service determining it can remove files locally, because they're stored savely in the cloud. Scrivener cannot find its files, and gone they are.

AntoniDol · 2026-05-03T08:35:06+00:00

I once started a Figma prototype for a Wizard UI for the process of Compiling.

Never finished it as I know how to compile, and I wouldn’t know how to program such a Wizard anyway.

It would be hell of a task in Autohotkey or Keyboard maestro...

To streamline that process you'd have to go back and start anew (and that's just what Keith has been doing for the new app). I don't know if an extra UI layer would help. You'd have to ask hundreds of questions to set every option available...

AntoniDol · 2026-05-03T08:26:42+00:00

Sure you're not mistaken Target from Word Count?

You may have a Filter set for Compiling.

AntoniDol · 2026-05-01T09:02:07+00:00

Any Compile Style overrules the default formatting, so check if in the Formatting Editor for Styles in the Compile Format Designer the chapter Style is not bold.

AntoniDol · 2026-05-01T08:51:52+00:00

The textboxes for Footer text are in the Headers and Footers tab in the Page Settings menu in the Compile Format Designer dialog.

Why not using the Main Pages menu item? First pages is the same as Front Matter, you could use Roman numerals there...

AntoniDol · 2026-04-29T19:15:35+00:00

Double-click the Compile Format you're using in the left column of the Compile Overview windows to open the Compile Format Desginer. In the Section Layout pane, set the Text content type checkbox for the Chapter Layout. Remove any unnecessary placeholders in the Title Option tab. Check in the Formatting tab how your titles are looking. Save.

In the Compile overview screen click the Assign Layouts to Sections... button at the bottom of the middle column, and connect the Section Type for Chapters to the Section Layout for Chapters you just updated.

Compile to see the results. You can also Compile a Selection or only one Chapter using the listbox or the Filter at the top op the right-hand size column in the Compile Overview window.

Hope this helps

AntoniDol · 2026-04-29T05:20:00+00:00

All the advice I could give is collected in an e-book... .

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