I don't know why I didn't install this program sooner. I use Scrivener and this helps a ton. Thanks for explaining the basics and helping another writer out.
Scapple is great for brainstorming, but when I want to drill down further into the elements I use Papel, a free long-abandoned software which is still available on the interwebs. It consists of icons which represent various aspects of a story. You can create different icons - it's fun making new 'themes'. When you click on an icon, it links to the relevant text document (idea, plot, chapter, character, etc) which you can fill with as much detail as you want. When this has been saved and closed, hover over the icon to see the text. The icons can be grouped like a mind-map, around an event, or a group of related characters etc. It's how all my stories start, just before outlining. I use Scapple for fast brainstorming.
I have to admit, I've tried a lot of planning/brainstorming packages, and generally I don't get on with them. It may well just be that I've been using Scapple for so long now that it's second nature, and any new system just gets in the way of writing the story, because I find myself learning new techniques etc. Thanks - I'll have a look at Paper.
thanks for this video. I have Scapple installed but felt a little intimidated by it. I installed primarily because I use Scrivener and love it. I am using for my dissertation. Your video really helped me to understand how I could use Scapple for several aspects of my drafting and research. Cheers!
Thanks, Jamie. I'm very glad indeed if it was that helpful! I really do rather love Scapple, as you can probably tell. It's so flexible and easy, and helps me to organise my thoughts, so I'm delighted it's doing the same for you too!
Mike,review was nice ,but it would be very nice if you can make a videos on scriviner for the beginner like me may be it could be time stamp of the critical aspect of scriviner...thanks a lot
Noted - and I'll have a think about that. It'd probably have to be a separate video, not a normal Thursday one. The problem is, making a video about Scrivener is likely to take a lot of time and just now I'm very time limited! I'll see what I can do.
Hi. If you go to "View", then "Show Inspector", you'll see a heading of "Document Settings". There you can pick a colour or texture for the background. Scapple is a little confusing. They call this the "Canvas" or "Scapple Board" in their main instruction. Hope that helps!
@@writerlywitterings Thank you for your help. I had chosen this, but oddly enough, it was collapsed on the right of my window and finally was able to see something was there and slide it over into view. Appreciate your help!
Fair comment. It's enormously useful as a tool. However, you can use it on your main computer alongside Scrivener and output to pdf or other formats that you can at least carry with you on the laptop, if that helps?
Your not being paid by literature and latte explains your not explaining how to do the various things you said can be done with scapple, I must say your video was not very useful.
Sorry to hear that - but no, I don't do "how to" videos. I was here just trying to give an idea about what could be done with Scapple, not the keystrokes you need to do to operate it. The main thing is, Scapple is so flexible that it doesn't really matter what you want to do, you can do it. It's a great little tool.
@@writerlywitterings Try to follow me here, you say: With application A you can do X,Yand Z, have a nice day, tootles. Now as someone watching your video I am not in the least convinced of anything you say, because my experience in watching videos of people that are enthusiastic about what they're talking about, where things like apps are concerned they naturally explain how to do whatever it is they EXPLICITLY CLAIM can be done with the app (and fella you made quite a few explicit claims about what could be done with Scapple). To give nothing but an idea is to give what amounts to nothing but vague platitudes where things like apps are concerned, tootles.
Which is fine for people making claims about apps. However, I'm giving my impression of a tool which I use, mentioning how I use it, what appeals to me, and why I was prepared to buy it for myself. Scapple is enormously flexible, which means you can use it pretty much however you want. My approach is to give an idea of what it's capable of. I'm sorry you don't like that approach, but there are many other folk out there who'll no doubt cater for your own approach. However, I am a professional writer, not a reviewer, and this channel is to motivate and help other writers, not get into a detailed pro vs con discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of specific packages or to give blow-by-blow instructions. If you want that, go to Literature and Latte's website, where they give plenty of videos about how to use Scapple and Scrivener.
I don't know why I didn't install this program sooner. I use Scrivener and this helps a ton. Thanks for explaining the basics and helping another writer out.
No problem - really glad it was helpful (as is Scapple!)
Scapple is great for brainstorming, but when I want to drill down further into the elements I use Papel, a free long-abandoned software which is still available on the interwebs.
It consists of icons which represent various aspects of a story. You can create different icons - it's fun making new 'themes'. When you click on an icon, it links to the relevant text document (idea, plot, chapter, character, etc) which you can fill with as much detail as you want.
When this has been saved and closed, hover over the icon to see the text. The icons can be grouped like a mind-map, around an event, or a group of related characters etc.
It's how all my stories start, just before outlining.
I use Scapple for fast brainstorming.
I have to admit, I've tried a lot of planning/brainstorming packages, and generally I don't get on with them. It may well just be that I've been using Scapple for so long now that it's second nature, and any new system just gets in the way of writing the story, because I find myself learning new techniques etc. Thanks - I'll have a look at Paper.
@@writerlywitterings It's called 'Papel' I'll try to find a link.
papel.teiru.net/papel/index.html
@@muskndusk Looks really good, but not for iMac, sadly!
Scapple is great, going to buy it once my trial has finished.
It really is, isn't it? Simple and very effective.
thanks for this video. I have Scapple installed but felt a little intimidated by it. I installed primarily because I use Scrivener and love it. I am using for my dissertation. Your video really helped me to understand how I could use Scapple for several aspects of my drafting and research. Cheers!
Thanks, Jamie. I'm very glad indeed if it was that helpful! I really do rather love Scapple, as you can probably tell. It's so flexible and easy, and helps me to organise my thoughts, so I'm delighted it's doing the same for you too!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video for us
It's my pleasure - it gets me away from my other desk occasionally! Thanks!
Just bought it now-thanks!
Hope you enjoy it!
Mike,review was nice ,but it would be very nice if you can make a videos on scriviner for the beginner like me may be it could be time stamp of the critical aspect of scriviner...thanks a lot
Noted - and I'll have a think about that. It'd probably have to be a separate video, not a normal Thursday one. The problem is, making a video about Scrivener is likely to take a lot of time and just now I'm very time limited! I'll see what I can do.
How do we get background to dark mode? Selecting this in options only changes the new notes?
Hi. If you go to "View", then "Show Inspector", you'll see a heading of "Document Settings". There you can pick a colour or texture for the background. Scapple is a little confusing. They call this the "Canvas" or "Scapple Board" in their main instruction. Hope that helps!
@@writerlywitterings Thank you for your help. I had chosen this, but oddly enough, it was collapsed on the right of my window and finally was able to see something was there and slide it over into view. Appreciate your help!
@@FathomMinistries Really glad I could help!
I use scrivener, but haven't looked into scapple. Only wish they supported Linux so I could have on my laptop.
Fair comment. It's enormously useful as a tool. However, you can use it on your main computer alongside Scrivener and output to pdf or other formats that you can at least carry with you on the laptop, if that helps?
It seems you can only get it now for Windows 10 or above. No good for people with 8.1 and below.
Interesting - what I'd really like would be to have it on iOS for the iPad - sadly I think I'll have to use Aeon Timeline instead!
Your not being paid by literature and latte explains your not explaining how to do the various things you said can be done with scapple, I must say your video was not very useful.
Sorry to hear that - but no, I don't do "how to" videos. I was here just trying to give an idea about what could be done with Scapple, not the keystrokes you need to do to operate it. The main thing is, Scapple is so flexible that it doesn't really matter what you want to do, you can do it. It's a great little tool.
@@writerlywitterings Try to follow me here, you say: With application A you can do X,Yand Z, have a nice day, tootles. Now as someone watching your video I am not in the least convinced of anything you say, because my experience in watching videos of people that are enthusiastic about what they're talking about, where things like apps are concerned they naturally explain how to do whatever it is they EXPLICITLY CLAIM can be done with the app (and fella you made quite a few explicit claims about what could be done with Scapple). To give nothing but an idea is to give what amounts to nothing but vague platitudes where things like apps are concerned, tootles.
Which is fine for people making claims about apps. However, I'm giving my impression of a tool which I use, mentioning how I use it, what appeals to me, and why I was prepared to buy it for myself. Scapple is enormously flexible, which means you can use it pretty much however you want. My approach is to give an idea of what it's capable of. I'm sorry you don't like that approach, but there are many other folk out there who'll no doubt cater for your own approach. However, I am a professional writer, not a reviewer, and this channel is to motivate and help other writers, not get into a detailed pro vs con discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of specific packages or to give blow-by-blow instructions. If you want that, go to Literature and Latte's website, where they give plenty of videos about how to use Scapple and Scrivener.