Finally, Word has an EndNote add-in, so I could directly be inserting references as I write, rather than using a more roundabout way of referencing in Scrivener by having to paste in raw EndNote code first, and then having to convert it once the Scrivener draft had been exported into Word.
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But I also already had a detailed outline in Scrivener (using it as a two-pane outliner), so it seemed sensible to keep that open in my second monitor, while doing the writing in another software in my main monitor.įor times when I wouldn’t be using Dragon, I would want to use WordExpander to speed up the typing, and it turned out that it would display the pop-up menu of word choices by the cursor in Word but not in Scrivener.
Scrivener on the other hand couldn’t handle direct Dragon dictation. For one, I could dictate directly into Word and all the Dragon NaturallySpeaking functions would work the same as in DragonPad, making DragonPad redundant. I considered Scrivener and DragonPad, but I found that Word trumped them by being compatible with the most software that I wanted to use during the writing process. To my surprise I have selected Word 2010 as my main writing tool.
At that point I decided to start writing, so that the written piece be the place where all the information from the various outlines can be consolidated into a final train of thought. This is a fun and productive process until it gets out of hand and you end up with more outlines than you can keep track of. Let’s call that condition obsessive-compulsive outlining behaviour (OCOB), and the cure “writing.” The reason for the many outlines is that I use outliners as part of a distillation process, for extracting and abstracting information by translating ideas from one outliner into another. My actual writing started once I got to a point that I had so many outlines in different outliners that the only way out of that morass was to start writing them up. The overall writing process appears to be a recursive process of alternating between outlining and writing (though the two are not always clearly separable). I have two monitors, a 19 and a 22-inch one. I am in the middle of writing my dissertation, and I’m constantly experimenting with my writing process flow and set-up.
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