ACCESSING STORYIST FILES IN SCRIVENER FULL
ACCESSING STORYIST FILES IN SCRIVENER SOFTWARE

Anyhing I highlight on my iPad shows up on my Mac. Any highlights I make on my Mac become immediately available on iOS. I do a fair amount of reading on my iPad. I switched back to Papers primarily for synchronization. Highlighting in Papers 3Despite lacking the outstanding features of Skim, I am back to reading/highlighting in Papers.

ACCESSING STORYIST FILES IN SCRIVENER SOFTWARE

The software and utlities integral to this workflow are: I’ve written a bit about this before, but the process has evolved, so I am dedicating an entry to my updated workflow. I have a unique way of processing scholarly information, I am convinced it gives me an advantage when writing grants and manuscripts-allowing me to find specific notes and related information very quickly and efficiently without having to rely purely on memory. I’m going to continue to hold out for the real deal: Scrivener iOS. In every other aspect, I found Storyist inferior to the Dropbox text sync method I discussed in this entry. In fact, the only advantage I can see in using Storyist is the ability to read native Scrivener files. The lack of usable features and the unreliable sync of Storyist are deal killers for me. No matter how I tried, I was unable to resolve these conflicts.To make a long story short, I feel like I wasted $15. Instead, I saw file conflict notifications between the Mac and iPhone version of the section. I opened the Scrivener project on my Mac and opened the section I had edited on my phone-the edited text did not show up on my Mac. I waited for what seemed like several minutes for the file on my Mac to update. Many of the features of the Storyist software don’t work with native Scrivener files.I navigated down into the Drafts folder on my iPhone and typed some text. The folder hierarchy appeared identical on the phone as on Scrivener on my Mac. On my Mac, I set up an alias for a current Scrivener project and moved the native file to the Storyist Folder on ICloud Drive. Finally, I connected my phone to my Mac and iTunes.Lo and behold, a Storyist Folder appeared on the iCloud Drive on my Mac. I consulted the forums and saw that iCloud sync can take some time-up to several minutes. I followed the instructions in Storyist to set up iCloud Drive-the Storyist Folder showed up on my iPhone, but not on my Mac. I was disappointed.First i tried to enable DropBox sync in Storyist, but then realized Storyist requires the native Scrivener file to be saved on iCloud Drive.

ACCESSING STORYIST FILES IN SCRIVENER FULL

Full of anticipation, I plunked down my $15 and downloaded Storyist. As I wrote in my last entry, I was excited when I read Ricardo Sanchez’s article on the integration of Storyist and Scrivener.

Accessing storyist files in scrivener