Scrivener is a great and very useful project management software for writers that acts like your own little writing shed at the bottom of the garden, where you have cork notice-boards, ring-binders, photos, clippings paperclipped to jottings, notebooks and more. Scrivener goal is not to try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in only one application.

Focus on Writing
Scrivener provides access to the full power of the OS X text system: add tables, bullet points and images and format your text however you want. Define ranges of text as footnotes and they become footnotes when you export or print. And because the way you view your text onscreen may not always be how you want to see it in print, Scrivener makes it easy to format the printed or exported text completely differently from what is onscreen - leaving you free to focus on the actual writing.

Refer to Research
No more switching between multiple applications to refer to research files: keep all of your research - image files, PDF documents, movies, sound files and web pages - right inside Scrivener. And unlike in other programs that only let you see one document in a window at a time, in Scrivener you can view a research document in one pane and compose your text in another right alongside it. Transcribe an interview, make notes about a picture, or just refer back to another chapter, all from within the same program.

Corkboard
The cork notice-board is one of the writer's most familiar tools. Before Scrivener, though, the index cards were not connected to anything (other than ideas, of course); any changes to the order on the corkboard would have to be replicated manually in the draft. In Scrivener, every document is attached to a virtual index card onto which you can jot a synopsis. Use the corkboard to shuffle these index cards around - which is instantly reflected in the structure of your draft.

Outline
The outliner is another way of viewing the synopses and meta-data of the documents in your project. Restructure your work easily; get an overview of the project so far and what still needs to be done; check how many scenes have Jack as the point-of-view character; read and edit an overview of a scene, a chapter or of the whole draft.

Here are some key features of "Scrivener":

· Edit Multiple Documents - Create limitless documents in the same project and edit them separately or merge them dynamically and edit them as a whole.
· Corkboard - Virtual index cards store a synopsis for every document you create. Storyboard and rearrange your project by moving them around on the corkboard.
· Outlining - A fully-featured outliner helps you take control of the structure of your work.
· Keywords - Use a powerful keywords system to keep track of characters, themes or ideas.
· Full Screen Editing - View your text in full screen for distraction-free composition.
· Export - Export your finished draft to your favourite word processor for final formatting, including support for footnotes, annotations and images.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial period.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Changes:
· Files imported from WriteRoom are now selected and revealed in the binder.
· Clipping services have been renamed to include the application name so that they are more easily identified on Snow Leopard (note that because services are cached you may not see any changes until you restart your computer).

Bugs Fixed:
· Fixed bug whereby override colour wasn't working in full screen (this was fixed in 1.52 a day after it was released, so only those who downloaded 1.52 early will see this bug).
· Updated internal eSellerate engine which should hopefully fix eSellerate-related activation crashes on Snow Leopard and solve the activation issues some users have been having. Please contact support@literatureandlatte.com and CC support@esellerate.net if you continue to experience activation problems after this update.
· Scrivener 1.52 added some extra project file checks upon opening projects, in order to ensure there were no stray files within the project and to recover them if necessary. Unfortunately this code was not optimised and could cause massive slowdowns upon opening projects containing hundreds of documents, to the extent that the system would seem to freeze. This has been fixed and all projects should now open quickly again.
· Fixed bug whereby the activation panel could cause two Help menus to appear within Scrivener until Scrivener was restarted.
· Fixed bug on Snow Leopard in which the cmd-C keyboard shortcut would not work for the "Copy" command in scriptwriting mode.