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Take snapshots of your work

Take snapshots of your work - Scrivener Tutorial

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Take snapshots of your work

- [Instructor] The snapshot function in Scrivener helps you manage revisions and drafts of your work. Let's say I finished writing a first draft of this goodbye video for the course. My next step is to export it and send it to my publisher. Let's say she gets back to me to let know she wants something completely different from what I wrote. Before I rewrite, I'll take a snapshot of my first draft. I can do that by going to Documents, and then selecting Snapshots, and Take Snapshot. Before I do this, please note that you can take common keyboard shortcuts like command + 5 or shift + command + 5. I do this all the time because I take frequent snapshots. For this example, I am going to take a snapshot by clicking Take Snapshot. To see the snapshot, make sure your Inspector panel is open, and we do that by clicking the eye, and that you've selected the camera icon. This represents snapshots. You can see the date and time of the snapshot that I just took. I can also choose to name it by…

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