François MAGNAN Formateur Consultant

I haven’t tried Scrivener with EndNote or Mendeley, but with Zotero there are two relatively easy ways to ensure you can work with Scrivener and Zotero and let Zotero format your references etc.

Je suis fidèle à Word depuis trente ans (j’ai juste retrouvé une photo compromettante de 1994). C’est mon stylo, bourré de macros. Mais cet outil .......En revanche, pour m’attaquer à la vie de Didier Pittet, j’ai besoin de structurer. De décrire des personnages, des lieux, d’esquisser les différents chapitres, de rassembler pour chacun des notes, des transcriptions d’interviews, des documents… J’ai besoin de travailler en même temps en plusieurs points du texte. Sous Word, c’est tout simplement impensable. SurScrivener, c’est naturel.

Before I get into this I have to note that for most writing I try to keep things as simple as possible: I compose (using Vim, mostly) almost everything in plain text (using MultiMarkdown (see an example of Markdown and its output), converting to another format using Marked, orScrivener, or something even more geeky like Pandoc.

But my Holy Garil of Writing Workflow is to, as seamlessly as possible, move through all four of the funamendal writing stages:

BrainstormingOutlining and/or Mind MappingComposing with Scrivener and Multimarkdown (which I am falling in love with)Publishing, as needed, to various formats:MarkdownPDFMS Office or RTFHTML

I have written a posting about my academic workflow, but I guess the visualization looked a little complicated. I have tried to do another visualization and this the current version.