Bernskiold Media

 Scrivener is a writing application for the Mac that is based on the workflow of a professional writer. It is by no means meant to be an output writer like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word is and thus you cannot really do much do your text and images apart from the usual italics, bold and underlining. It is however, amazing at what it does, allowing you to write faster and more organized.

Generally when writing larger projects, say an essay or a book even, you normally don’t only do writing in one block. You usually have different sections of writing and you probably do a lot of research before, saving content and images from books or the internet. Scrivener can help you with all of this. In a default Scrivener document, you will find three things: the Draft binder, the Research binder and the Trash. Inside the Draft binder, you create all new pages that you write. You can make nested pages and make groups of pages—all as you wish. In the Research binder you put in all the research material like text and images and perhaps a source list as well (which can be seen in the screenshot above in which I have got a workbook creation open where I have got images and many pages and groups—all in Swedish for a class I am doing).

Overall, Scrivener on the Mac makes it tremendously easier to write and organize your writing and it helps to motivate me to write as well for some odd reason. It’s also rather lightweight on the computer in contrast to the resource hog that Microsoft Office is on the Mac. You can really tell that this is an application written by writers for writers and based on all that I do give it a very strong recommendation.

• Website: www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
• Developer: Litterature & Latte
• Price: $39.95
• Platform: Mac only