Wow, a super interesting question! Wasn’t as easy to answer quickly as I thought it would be!
TL;DR: My notes almost always go into Trello first, where I triage and organize them. I actually wrote a (Clojure) app to help manage these cards. Then all into @ScrivenerApp.. 1/N
TL;DR: My notes almost always go into Trello first, where I triage and organize them. I actually wrote a (Clojure) app to help manage these cards. Then all into @ScrivenerApp.. 1/N
@ScrivenerApp Almost all my notes start as Trello cards first: I use Zapier to put all starred tweets in there, I send myself emails that get turned into cards.
Each book often has one board, with lists for each broach category. I wrote app to enable moving cards w/1 keystroke, like vi.
2/N
Each book often has one board, with lists for each broach category. I wrote app to enable moving cards w/1 keystroke, like vi.
2/N
@ScrivenerApp Last two books have had 800-1000 Trello cards, which were shuffled into 10-20 lists.
But the hard work happens in @ScrivenerApp, which is the part I think you’re talking about. Good ideas get copied into there, where they get developed or discarded.
Scrivener is awesome. 3/N
But the hard work happens in @ScrivenerApp, which is the part I think you’re talking about. Good ideas get copied into there, where they get developed or discarded.
Scrivener is awesome. 3/N
@ScrivenerApp @ScrivenerApp is like an IDE for writing. I usually have one section that is the manuscript, and another huge folder of Ideas.
Ideas get turned into sections in the manuscript, and then dragged into another folder called DONE. I rarely delete things.
All files are in Git. 4/N
Ideas get turned into sections in the manuscript, and then dragged into another folder called DONE. I rarely delete things.
All files are in Git. 4/N
@ScrivenerApp Git repo has Scrivener project, any supporting research (PPTs, papers), BibTex files, and tools to render MMD to PDF, DOCX, TEX, HTML (thx @kartar!)
Before handover to copyediting, I own doc. I send editors PDF/DOCX, usually diffed with last release. Releases are in repo. 5/N
Before handover to copyediting, I own doc. I send editors PDF/DOCX, usually diffed with last release. Releases are in repo. 5/N
@ScrivenerApp @kartar I rarely delete things, and that’s why DevOps Handbook git repo was over 500MB. (Mostly b/c Scrivener uses RTF docs internally)
After handoff, sadly, I work in whatever tool editors use (Word).
Short answer: all research stays in Scrivener, often in multiple drafts. 6/N
After handoff, sadly, I work in whatever tool editors use (Word).
Short answer: all research stays in Scrivener, often in multiple drafts. 6/N
@ScrivenerApp @kartar I have a big folder called Leftovers, which I’ve often used as giveaways during the book launch period. Phoenix Project had 80K words of leftovers: cut scenes, etc. DevOps Handbook had numerous cutc case studies.
Current book project will have similar of cut scenes. 7/N
Current book project will have similar of cut scenes. 7/N
@ScrivenerApp @kartar For Phoenix Project and current project, I use Tinderbox outliner by @eastgate. I mostly use it mostly as an outliner now. In past, I used it much more extensively, to create visual calendar of event timeline.
Occasionally notes live there to puzzle over, but then Scrivener 8/N
Occasionally notes live there to puzzle over, but then Scrivener 8/N
@ScrivenerApp @kartar @eastgate Last note: when book is done, having everything in finalized github repo was awesome. It’s nice to be able to search for something, and know that source materials aren’t just on one laptop or Dropbox folder anymore.
Hope that helps, @ericnormand! 9/9. :)
Hope that helps, @ericnormand! 9/9. :)
