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 ]

Refinements and Changes:

Custom Meta-Data:
· Moved “Custom Meta-Data” to its own pane in the bottom of the inspector, rather than having it in the same pane as general meta-data, thus giving it more space.
· Custom meta-data is now also available in QuickReference panels and in the Composition Mode inspector.
Comments and Footnotes:
· Inspector comments and footnotes can now be moved simply by dragging them from the inspector into the place in the text you want them placed. (You can also drag them to other texts in a split view, which results in a copy of the comment being made.)
· Project Replace now affects inspector comments and footnotes.
New: Default Subdocument Types:
· Added Documents > Default New Subdocument Type. This allows you to tell individual folders within a project to use a document type from the project’s templates folder by default when adding new documents. For instance, in the novel project template, if you set the “Characters” folder to use the “Character Sketch” documen...