Scrivener

Whether you’re writing a short novel, academics paper, screenplay or an elaborate journalistic article, you need to take into consideration the layout and structure of the material.

Scrivener is a content generation tool which enables you to create a text based document while having complete control over its layout and formatting.

Scrivener displays a user-friendly interface with a very good looking design that is separated into two main components, the ‘Binder’ and the ‘Editor’. The first consists initially of three categories, ‘Draft’, ‘Research’ and ‘Trash’ and they are used to store pages and content you need for your work.

The binder can be customized with new folders and allows you to organize the pages of your document anyway you see fit and you even get a cork board on which to sort and preview the text.

Scrivener’s ‘Editor’ offers you the classic means of creating a text file. You get to choose the font type, styling, size, alignment and color. Everything about it respects the standard means of typing text content. However, Scrivener offers you a series of tools that make it stand out from similar applications. You can create and customize an outliner and use it to keep track of your document’s metadata in one or more levels.

When creating a new file, Scrivener offers you the possibility to use one if its many project templates. You can opt from fiction, non-fiction, scriptwriting and miscellaneous. Each of them comes with the appropriate document structure and all you have to do is fill in the pages with text, tables, images and anything you want.

If your project gets too complex and is hard to follow content evolution, documentation and other factors, Scrivener enables you to create collections which you can easily manage and organize.

With the above to consider and much more to discover, Scrivener is truly a great content generator for all kinds of writers.