Although healthy, he’s a poor eater, so between a flurry of doctor visits and sleep deprivation, the blog has been pushed out of my mind. I don’t know if I mentioned it or not, but I was pregnant with my first child–a child who decided it was his prerogative to arrive almost three weeks early. I’ll be sure to post my review the day Scrivener’s available on the App Store.First off, major apologies for the stagnation of this blog. If you can wait until Scrivener for iOS is released - well, you can make an informed choice then. (I personally find iCloud Drive a pain in the keister.) But you’ll have to create all your Scrivener projects on your Mac or PC. If you like to have the binder visible, Storyist is your choice, if you’re willing to put up with using iCloud Drive. It’s also your choice if you need to create a Scrivener project on iOS. Other than that, if you need synopses Scrivo Pro is your choice. Which would I recommend? Storyist seems less buggy - sorry, Studio 5, but I’ve already run into an irritating bug in the index card display - nothing dangerous to data, but enough to interrupt an editing session. If using either of these apps, close your Scrivener project on your Mac or PC before opening it under iOS! Manually sync your project from iOS before re-opening it on your Mac or PC! Also be sure that Scrivener is set to back up automatically on project close. This makes it horribly possible to mess up. They ignore the Scrivener sync capabilities - else they would not be currently usable with Windows. Warning: These are NOT supported by Literature and Latte. As with Storyist, no metadata other than synopses is available. Scrivo won’t open images for display, so images in your research are inaccessible. Scrivo won’t show the binder as a sidebar, but it will display your synopses as index cards, and let you edit them. You will need to manually add the project to Scrivo, manually sync your changes down from Dropbox when you start editing, and manually sync your changes back when you’re finished, but when you’ve made changes in Scrivo there’s a button that shows up with the number of files changed on the main project screen so it’s hard to miss that syncing up might be a good idea. On to Scrivo Pro: Scrivo will open and work with your project wherever you place it on Dropbox. Move them out, and you lose Storyist connectivity. Finally, you will need to keep your Scrivener projects on iCloud drive, and edit them from there. You will not be able to access your synopses, nor any other metatdata. Your research will be available in Storyist - but you may not be able to read much of it, as Storyist won’t display PDFs and images are displayed very small. You’ll be able to have your binder open as a sidebar (on an iPad) while you edit a document. You can rearrange documents, add documents, delete documents, and edit documents. Open that, and you’re editing your Scrivener project. Your Scrivener project now will show up in your list of documents, with a big “SCRIV” stamp on the bottom of its icon. Once you’ve done this, go back to Storyist for iOS. In your browser, open and drag the Scrivener project you’d like to edit with Storyist into the Storyist folder on iCloud Drive. Now you’ve got a Storyist folder in iCloud. My executive summary: First, be sure you have iCloud Drive - yes, it’s available for PCs. You’ll need to look at this article on Storyist Software’s website, “ Editing Scrivener Files with Storyist for iOS“. I’d bought Scrivo as an upgrade from Studio 5’s previous product, Textilus, and again, didn’t find anything in it that screamed at me that this was going to be more than a slightly slicker Textilus.įirst to Storyist: If you just buy the app and open it, you get no hint from the interface that you can edit native Scrivener files. I’d already looked at Storyist Mac in September, 2015, and been unimpressed. I admit it - they didn’t pop up on my radar. The first to market with this ability, Storyist, first released a version with native Scrivener editing in October, 2015. Also, when I can (at last!) blog about Scrivener for iOS features, these products will be good comparison points. If you can’t wait for one to three months for the Literature and Latte product if you need a solution now, one of these might do. They are therefore the first true solutions for iOS editing that can be used by Windows Scrivener users. iOS articles: the ability to edit a Scrivener project in its native format rather than go through Scrivener’s Sync to Index Card or Sync to External Folder processes. These have a new capability covered in none of my other Scrivener v. Why then bother with Scrivo Pro and Storyist for iOS reviews? Yes, I know: Scrivener for iOS will be released in a month or three.
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