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Use the scratchpad - Scrivener Tutorial
From the course: Scrivener Essential Training
Use the scratchpad
- [Instructor] You can use the Scratchpad to capture any ideas and research you may have as you work on a long document. Let's see how Scratchpad works. Let's open up Scrivener's Scratchpad. Click Window, then near the bottom, select Show Scratchpad. You'll see the Scrivener Scratchpad window pop right up. Now let's say you get the idea that you want to browse the internet, and this happens to me all the time. Maybe I feel like I've earned a little social media break or maybe I need to do some research. Who knows? So I'll open up my web browser and in this case it's Chrome. I find myself at a website, and I think to myself, "Hmm. Well, that's a useful piece of text. "I might want to keep that handy as I write," and notice that Scratchpad window. It is still floating above the website. That's right. As long as you have Scratchpad open, it will be available for you to use in any other program that you might be using, Chrome, Word, PowerPoint. Your Scrivener Scratchpad can be available…
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