We’ll put – especially yor point on cold-calling. After all, it is a notably ‘cold’ experience for the caller. Just push through it is indeed the best advice.
Actually, you can collaborate in Scrivener, you just have to play by Scrivener’s rules.
You begin by saving your Scrivener Project to a shared dropbox.
But Only ONE of you may have the project open at a time. When you are ready to hand off the project to your wife, close the project, first. This is vital.
Make certain that she does not have the project open when you get ready to open it and work on it.
Also, set your backup project preference to a larger number. I recommend at least 10 at a minimum. Set the backup feature to backup both when you open the project and also when you close the project.
I also don’t recommend that your wife and you save your backups in the same Dropbox folder. Instead have her computer Backup folder preference set to a different folder. This way you have redundancy backups.
There is a community with over 2500 members for Scrivener Users.
Visitors do not need a G+ account. A visitor may read the community posts before deciding whether to participate.
Community membership does require a G+ account. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109597039874015233580
Thank you so much for the great write-up! I’m glad you’re enjoying the tips. And I’m glad MacPowerUser’s podcast is spreading the love also. 🙂
Thanks!
Jess Stratton
Thank you for the tips! Actually, I switched from omnifocus to Beesy.me, which is a web platform for project management. If you don’t know it you might be interested in it. I’m still on the one month full premium free trial and I’m found it way better than omnifocus. You shoud have a look at it.
To be honest those “professional” features seem pretty basic to me. Any kind of photo app these days needs to have them at a bare minimum.
In reality, Apple hasn’t updated Aperture for years now, and that’s a problem if you’re shooting photos in RAW with any kind of newish camera. Indeed RAW capability is something else their forthcoming Photos app is going to need to deal with.
I think it’s pretty clear that they’re going to the middle ground with this. An app that will be good enough to suit the hobbyist who gets out a DSLR from time to time, but not for anyone who’s serious about photography. Otherwise they’d have raised iPhoto up to the level of Aperture.
Personally I love Lightroom. Yes, it takes some initial learning, but even using the basic panel is superb. And if you shoot in RAW, it’s essential.
Take some time to try it out. If you’ve not used it recently then it’s improved, so it’s worth giving the free trial a go. And despite the whys and wherefores of Adobe going subscription only, you can still buy Aperture outright. You can also get it as part of a “Photographer’s package” with Photoshop for about £10.50 a month (hmm – it’s $9.99 + sales tax in the US). Still pretty decent for a state of the art program.
Just wanted to thank you for the shout out. I really hope this helps your readers.
Readers, please be advised; a 2PM nap does not count.
Keep in touch!
Hi
Spoke to you today at Writing WestMidlands. Really interested in the writing course at the Custard Factory in January – and other opportunities to further my writing.
I look forward to reading that book. I’m always looking for smarter ways to use email. I recently done a post on the topic:
http://stevemcp2002.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/outlook-2010-get-productive/
Those are good tips, but they seem focused on long term. Here are a couple you could implement today: http://getbackon.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/2-ways-to-be-more-effective-every-day/
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We’ll put – especially yor point on cold-calling. After all, it is a notably ‘cold’ experience for the caller. Just push through it is indeed the best advice.
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Interesting. Looking forward to part 3.
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Actually, you can collaborate in Scrivener, you just have to play by Scrivener’s rules.
You begin by saving your Scrivener Project to a shared dropbox.
But Only ONE of you may have the project open at a time. When you are ready to hand off the project to your wife, close the project, first. This is vital.
Make certain that she does not have the project open when you get ready to open it and work on it.
Also, set your backup project preference to a larger number. I recommend at least 10 at a minimum. Set the backup feature to backup both when you open the project and also when you close the project.
I also don’t recommend that your wife and you save your backups in the same Dropbox folder. Instead have her computer Backup folder preference set to a different folder. This way you have redundancy backups.
There is a community with over 2500 members for Scrivener Users.
Visitors do not need a G+ account. A visitor may read the community posts before deciding whether to participate.
Community membership does require a G+ account.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109597039874015233580
Thank you so much for the great write-up! I’m glad you’re enjoying the tips. And I’m glad MacPowerUser’s podcast is spreading the love also. 🙂
Thanks!
Jess Stratton
Thank you for the tips! Actually, I switched from omnifocus to Beesy.me, which is a web platform for project management. If you don’t know it you might be interested in it. I’m still on the one month full premium free trial and I’m found it way better than omnifocus. You shoud have a look at it.
To be honest those “professional” features seem pretty basic to me. Any kind of photo app these days needs to have them at a bare minimum.
In reality, Apple hasn’t updated Aperture for years now, and that’s a problem if you’re shooting photos in RAW with any kind of newish camera. Indeed RAW capability is something else their forthcoming Photos app is going to need to deal with.
I think it’s pretty clear that they’re going to the middle ground with this. An app that will be good enough to suit the hobbyist who gets out a DSLR from time to time, but not for anyone who’s serious about photography. Otherwise they’d have raised iPhoto up to the level of Aperture.
Personally I love Lightroom. Yes, it takes some initial learning, but even using the basic panel is superb. And if you shoot in RAW, it’s essential.
Take some time to try it out. If you’ve not used it recently then it’s improved, so it’s worth giving the free trial a go. And despite the whys and wherefores of Adobe going subscription only, you can still buy Aperture outright. You can also get it as part of a “Photographer’s package” with Photoshop for about £10.50 a month (hmm – it’s $9.99 + sales tax in the US). Still pretty decent for a state of the art program.
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Hello William!
Just wanted to thank you for the shout out. I really hope this helps your readers.
Readers, please be advised; a 2PM nap does not count.
Keep in touch!
Hi
Spoke to you today at Writing WestMidlands. Really interested in the writing course at the Custard Factory in January – and other opportunities to further my writing.
Thanks Tim Franks