Import Scrivener Template (windows Template Into Scrivener For Mac

Windows Project Template screen Which Scrivener template should you choose? That depends on what you’re trying to do and how you plan to set up your project. Here are some hints on picking a template for your next project. (If you’re not sure how to create a new project, check out.) What is a Project Template, Anyway? A template is a framework on which something is based.

A copy is made and then you can add your own elements. Most software works with templates. Even the blank document in Word or Pages is a template with properties like margins, font, font size, and spacing already set up. All Scrivener project templates are based on the Blank template—which is nothing but the basics—and have additional files and folders, and different settings baked in.

Pictures for kids room decor. The Blank Template The Blank template is the most basic option for your project. Contrary to my examples in Scrivener For Dummies, I now think Blank is the best place to start for new users because there aren’t so many distractions and confusing files to figure out.

Blank comes loaded with the three core folders that can’t be deleted: Draft, Research, and Trash. To get you started, there’s an empty Document in the Draft folder. Just click in the blank document and start typing.

The Compile format is initially set to “Original,” meaning that it will print everything as you have it formatted in the Editor. I love starting here because it’s uncluttered, and I can add only what I need. (I’ve found that when people—especially less experienced users—choose other templates, they’re afraid to delete extraneous files which leads to a confusing mess.) Other Templates So, every other template is a Blank template with extra stuff in it. Things the developers thought might be handy for the type of work you’re doing. For example, a renamed Draft folder (e.g. Manuscript, Screenplay, Short Story), additional folders like Characters and Front Matter and Notes and Template Sheets, each with their own special icon. A project based on the Nonfiction template Basically, you can move or rename anything you want, and you can delete anything except the three core folders.

The templates geared toward long-form writing are set up with the assumption that you’ll organize your work into chapter folders that contain scene/section subdocuments. With or Without Parts I see a lot of confusion around the templates that include “(with Parts)” in their name. Writers think, “My book has parts, I’ll choose this one.” The only time I recommend choosing a template with parts is if you plan to organize your chapter folders into part folders (as shown below). It comes pre-loaded with that layout, and this often has writers thinking that they must work this way in Scrivener or they’re doing it wrong. Project binder based on Novel with Parts If you have Part folders, but every chapter is a single document (see below), don’t pick this template. Instead, choose the Novel or Nonfiction format and rename the Chapter folder to Part n, or use the Blank template. What If You Pick the Wrong One?

There’s no way to change the template of a project once you’ve created it, so if you start writing and realize you’re unhappy, you can simply create a new project based on the template you want, and import your working project into it (File—Import—Scrivener Project). Ultimately, It Doesn’t Matter Once you get comfortable adding, moving, and deleting documents and folders, it doesn’t much matter which template you select. If you like the document templates in the Novel template but don’t use folders, simply delete the Chapter folder and start with a new document in Manuscript.

Or make your own document templates and Template Sheets folder. If you want the project settings to be different, change them. And when you have a better idea of what you like in a project template, you can. So, what’s your burning template question? Need more help? Sign up for an, read more, or schedule a session. Gwen Hernandez is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

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For a while now I’ve been toying around with the idea of using Scrivener as a writing tool. I hadn’t seriously considered using it for blogging, except I was interesting in finding out if it could become a blog-to-book tool. If it could import posts form WordPress, I figured it might be quite useful. I purchased the program, played around with it a bit, and put it away. I didn’t find any way to import from a blog, so I figured it wasn’t of much use for book bloggers. I recently had the opportunity to sit in on three conference sessions taught by Gwen Hernandez, author of. I then saw a webinar with Joseph Michael, the Scrivener Coach.

I’m now sold on using Scrivener for blogging, blogging books and writing books. I had a copy of Scrivener for my PC.

A few months ago I tried learning the program using the Scrivener Coach’s program. I was impressed with because it got me up and running fast! I’m not much for manuals and extensive time spent learning any type of program. I learned enough in a few sessions to see the power of Scrivener, but I could find no way to import blog posts.

I could see the usefulness of writing or blogging your book in Scrivener, especially since you can then compile your posts into an ebook. After sitting through two of Gwen’s conference sessions, I was so excited that I purchased a second copy of Scrivener (at a $15 discount) for my new Mac. She showed the attendees a huge number of tricks and tips, and we were able to ask her questions. I immediately began writing blog posts in the program and uploaded one of my current manuscripts so I could work on it in Scrivener. I then attended one more of Gwen’s sessions, and I was sold. Between Gwen’s classes and the Scrivener Coach’s program I easily could see the benefits for those wanting to turn blogs into books.

Here are three obvious advantages to using Scrivener if you are a blogging a book or a blogger considering booking a blog (repurposing material into a book). Easy Method for Booking a Blog I’ve always advised writers to compose the posts that comprise their blogged books in some other program, such as Word—not in WordPress.

If you’ve done this, you easily can import the posts you want to use—or all your posts—into Scrivener. It takes just seconds if you’ve created a one-document manuscript. You can import individual posts into Scrivener. Each import takes just seconds. Once your posts are in Scrivener, the program will search and find posts related to whatever topic you desire. Therefore, if you plan to book a blog, you can create a content plan for your book, and then you can search these existing posts for those that fit your needs. You can segment posts by subject matter or search topic.

This is akin to creating a new folder for each topic. These segments later can become chapters. You also can copy links to your existing blog posts into the research folder.

From there, you can copy and paste the content into new Scrivener documents. This is a very quick process. Of course, the best process would be to write your posts in Scrivener from the start. Simple Method for Blogging or Writing a Book Since Scrivener was created to help writers organize their writing, the program offers an effective way to blog your book. Your post-sized chapter bits are easy to move around and to track both as documents and “cards” on your cork board. If you like working with 3” x 5” cards, then you’ll enjoy the cork board. I like mind maps, but this tool provides one more visual option.

Each card provides you with information on your existing posts—or even on the posts you plan to write. Plus, when you are ready to put all the little pieces together, Scrivener will “compile” them into a Word document, a PDF or an ebook for you. Easy Ebook Technology for Writers I have not yet tried the compile function on Scrivener, but as I watched Gwen go through the process and show the end product and Joseph Michael demonstrate this as well on his webinar, I was convinced that it would be simple to produce an ebook using this writing tool.

I’ll be testing it out in the near future, and I’ll let you know what I discover. It appears that Scrivener offers bloggers (and writers) an easy and efficient way to go blog-to-book (or manuscript to book) easily, quickly and inexpensively. For all these reasons—and more—I’m moving my writing over to Scrivener. For just a sampling of the additional reasons, here are a few:. It saves every few seconds. It opens up to the place you last stopped editing or writing.

It tracks the the number of words in your post or your whole project—or both. It remembers links. If you want to learn more about Scrivener, join the Scrivener Coach and me on June 12 at 4 p.m. Pacific Time for a FREE webinar. You can register for “How To Use Scrivener To Effortlessly Write, Organize, & Export Your Book Into Various Formats For Printing, Editing, Publishing & More!”. This webinar is hosted by Nonfiction Writer’s University but is open to the public. Do you use Scrivener for blogging or for writing your blogged book?

If so, tell me why. Great post Nina. You hit on some of the biggest benefits of using Scrivener for blogging. In addition to writing e-books, I work as a professional blogger, managing several. I recently switched to Scrivener as my post writing and blog content organization tool, and I covered my process on one of my blogs last month: Not finding templates for it yet, I created two and later released them on that same blog — a project template for managing a single blog and a project template for managing multiple blogs from a single project file. Any plans to release your own structure as a project template for those interested in giving it a try? While I now have those and there are plenty of book templates out there, I haven’t seen one specifically for turning that blog content into a book.

Jennifer Mattern recently posted. Nina, Like Sharon mentioned you can use Multimarkdown. You don’t even need the markdown plugin for WordPress though (to import from Scrivener to WP — Sharon, do you mean you’d use that to import your existing WP posts to Scrivener instead?).

There’s a cheat sheet with some of the most basic blog formatting options in the post linked in my last comment. Then when you compile to move things into WordPress, you just use the MMD-to-Web/html option. It gives you clean HTML (compiling to HTML from the visual editor does not). And your links will display fine in WordPress. 🙂 I already have a few other guest posts committed to elsewhere, and I’ve committed to releasing a few more Scrivener templates for various freelance writing projects. But after I get through those I’d be happy to see if I can come up with a template and guest post that might work in this situation. 🙂 Jennifer Mattern recently posted.

Import Scrivener Template (windows Template Into Scrivener For Mac Mac

Jenn, thanks for the reminder about the MMD to web compile option. My early compile efforts left a lot to be desired, but I should try it again. 🙂 Retraining myself to do links in Markdown after years of using WLW is proving tricky because it slows me down. It’s just a matter of creating a new habit, I guess. To help, after a bit of research, I decided on WP-Markdown, just because I could then copy and paste straight from Scrivener. As I said, it’s still on my to-do list, but it looked like the best of the available options.

Sharon Hurley Hall recently posted. Thanks Sharon! I’ll take a look at it. I’m always hesitant to add plugins to my bigger blogs if I don’t need them, but I’ll test it out and see if it’s faster than the option I’m using now. If so, I can at least use it on some of the smaller blogs. 🙂 I keep multiple monitors on at all times.

So I pull out my cheat sheet and keep it on one screen while I write on the other one. I still forget which markdown options need a space before the text and which don’t, and links I sometimes do backwards. So that helps. Most of the time it’s fine. It’s when I take a few days off that I forget things — so basically the start of every week!

Jennifer Mattern recently posted. The only good way to import posts to Scrivener is to drag them from your search engine (where the URL is displayed) into the research function.

Then you can copy and paste into a file. Or just copy and paste.

Going in the other direction, I write in Markdown language and then compile as Markdown (Html). When you open the file it will show up in your browser.

Copy and paste into the WP text screen (rather than visual). It shows up all formatted. Or, if you have a markdown plugin, just copy in Scrivener and paste in WP. I can’t help but feel that there has to be an easier way. But I haven’t put any real thought into it before now. With thousands of posts across multiple blogs, I’d love to move the archives into my multi-blog project though.

A while back I had my developer-hubby create a custom export plugin for me to get data from WordPress for my SEO audits. Existing plugins didn’t give me the options I wanted. I wonder if something like that could be tweaked to work with Scrivener’s “import and split” function. I know he’s pretty busy over the next week or so, but I’ll talk to him and do some testing. If we can figure something out, I’ll be sure to let you know. 🙂 And I know it’s been a while, but if you’re still interested in a guest post like we discussed earlier in this post’s comment thread, let me know. I didn’t have time to work on many last year, but I’m scheduling some now and would be happy to put something together for you in March or April.

Nina Amir says.