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Word's rudimentary organizational mechanisms exacerbate this problem. Even smart and hard-working students often fail because the volume of information overwhelms them. The classic issue with the bar is not the difficulty of the law - it's actually fairly easy stuff - but to keep the massive amount of information straight. One takes notes throughout the entire lecture, yileding at least 20-30 pages of notes a day.
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I followed an on-line crash course featuring 40 lectures of 4-6 hours a piece, plus outside readings, cases, etc. I just finished taking the New York Bar Exam. When you're done, go back to step 2 and repeat as necessary.īonus 1, an extra tip about Personal Brain, from Michael Ham: But for tidiness, I move older versions of "My Project.scriv" to the Trash (where they're still recoverable) before unzipping the new one.ĥ) Begin editing My Project.scriv on the other computer. Conceptually, you're transferring it from the common folder that is shared among the computers, to the folder where you'll work on it locally.Ĥ) Un-zip that file in your "Documents" folder, which will produce a file called something like "My Project.scriv." Housekeeping detail: if there are earlier versions of that file on this computer, when you un-zip it, it will get a name like "My Project1.scriv." That's fine - you can just work on that one. Using the Finder, move or copy that most recent ZIPped file from the "Magic Briefcase" folder to the "Documents" folder. This will produce a file with a time stamp in its name, something like "My Project 12:40.zip" The time stamp means that you can create a series of these archives without worrying about duplicate file names, and you can easily see which one is newest.ģ) Go to your other computer. And, be sure to check the "Backup as ZIP file" box. Two details are important here: specify the "backup to" site as the "Magic Briefcase" folder, which SugarSync will automatically transfer to all your other computers when they are online. The command sequence is File/Backup/Backup To.
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But then also create a ZIPped archive of it, for transfer to your other machines. Plus the lawyer's testimonial plus an important user note on previously mentioned Personal Brain.ġ) Create a Scrivener file (known as a "project") and have its normal storage site be the "Documents" folder of the Mac computer you are working on.Ģ) When you're done, save the "project" as you would normally, with Cmd-S. Step-by-step sync details after the jump.
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The conceptual approach is the same as mentioned previously Personal Brain: you rely on the program's built-in capacity to create a ZIPped archive of each "bundle" you transfer that ZIP file from one computer to the next you unZip it on the other machine, and you're in business. How do you sync it between machines or back it up to the cloud? Easy. Also, at $39.95 it's cheap.īut Scrivener stores its data in complicated bundles, not self-contained. After the jump, comments that appeared in email from a young lawyer who has found the program surprisingly valuable.

Keith Blount explains some of the reasoning behind this approach in an interesting video interview, here. It allows you to work easily with blocks of text - chapters in a book, items in a list, scenes in a novel, sections of an article - and view them separately when that is convenient, or together when that is.

Scrivener is different in adding an organizational ability. I've liked some better and some worse, but they're all basically utilities. Why do I keep mentioning this software? I've used a ton of word-processing programs over the years, from The Electric Pencil in the late 1970s, through WordStar and WordPerfect and XyWrite and a winsome native-OS/2 program called DeScribe, and Oracle's OpenOffice, and of course the inescapable Word.
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For later Software Week discussion: in what circumstances and for what kind of users would a program like this justify a move to the Mac.
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And, as the designer of Scrivener, Keith Blount of Cornwall, England, explained four years ago in an intellectual history of the program, it shares a spirit with some other PC and Mac programs, including Ulysses. It is Mac-only, though as discussed here and here several PC programs approximate some of the features.
