When this happens, David judges Dropbox to be better at helping you to detect and manage the problem without losing any of your work, and I agree with him. His reasoning is based on a somewhat special case situation in which it is possible to make changes to the same document from two different computers before they get synchronized back to the cloud. For the purposes of synchronizing a central manuscript among multiple computers, David gives the nod to Dropbox and the better tool. ![]() In the article, which was written in April 2012, David assesses the various features of the two systems, and points out their advantages and disadvantages for users with different needs. ![]() In this article, writer David Earle walks us through the pros and cons of two of the more prominent players in synchronizing cloud storage: Dropbox and Google Drive. But by far the easiest thing to do is to make use of cloud storage. Or if you only write at home, and you happen to know something about network configuration, you can easily set up a network filing system that allows you to access your writing files from on central location, regardless of which computer you happen to sit down at. If you’re looking for a best practices guide to writing in Scrivener, this article by Gwen Hernandez is a great overview.įor authors who only ever use a single computer for their writing will not have much need to sync their manuscript across multiple computers. It was easy to install and I have had no complaints at all in using it.Īs the title of this posting suggests, I am going to focus on how to use Scrivener in the context of the cloud, to add a few elements to your workflow that are not directly supported within Scrivener itself. If you do happen to be a fellow Linux user, I will tell you that I have found the Linux-native port of Scrivener to be incomplete, so I have opted to use the Windows version, running under Wine. Everything I’m about to share with you will work just as well on a Windows platform, and should do on Mac as well, although Mac users will have access to some more advanced features in Scrivener than we lesser mortals do. For the record, I run a Linux shop around here, but you don’t have to. I’m just going to try to pull together the best advice I can find on how to build a credible creative writing workflow, centered on Scrivener as the main tool, and employing other tools, as necessary.īefore we dive into the details, I should say a word about my computing environment. This won’t be a whiny rant on all the things that can’t yet be done. So in this article, I am setting out to develop a sort of “best practices” guide on how to facilitate an author’s life, with the tools we have at hand today. And it’s many of the other authors I have spoken too in recent weeks. And it won’t manage the dozens of historical revisions and drafts you produce along your path from empty page to published masterpiece.Īnd it’s not just you. It won’t facilitate your interactions with editors and beta readers. It won’t sync itself across the four computers you use for writing. Love it as you do, however, there are still some things that Scrivener won’t do for you. In short, you are rocking your Scrivener existence. You’ve chopped up, reordered, and reorganized your chapters and scenes a hundred different ways. The inspirational photographs are all in place. You’ve dropped all your reference notes into your research folder. You have character fact sheets at your fingertips. ![]() You relish it’s ability to help you process ideas, not just words, and you revel in exploring all that it can do for you. So, you’ve emerged from your MSWord-induced fever dream and discovered the natural wonders of Scrivener.
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