I have bought Scrivener four whole times (version 1, 2, 3, and iOS) and I would buy it again in a heartbeat. At this point I don't write fiction in anything else; I've made a Scriv project for all my short fic, which I used to write separately in a regular text editor.
I started out just using the notecards to describe each scene but I eventually ended up making use of a bunch of other features. I really like Composition Mode. I use the research section for fanart (if I'm working on a BB/RBB), comics panels, PDFs, imported webpages -- you can fit a whole lot of stuff in there. I've done things like color-code scene labels by POV, which makes it easy to see how my POV is getting weighted. As I've edited fic I have changed the icons on the scenes to reflect their status. You can "snapshot" individual scenes as a version control system and then revert to previous versions if you've made edits you don't like. (Although honestly I just keep a doc in the Research folder of everything I've cut.)
You mention above about adding word counts to the card titles -- Scrivener will actually do chapter-level word counts for you on the fly. If you make folders within your draft, you can drag/drop scenes into folders, and if you're in the mode that lets you read something as a whole document, the live word count at the bottom will be the count for that folder; clicking on the folder will let you read that particular folder's documents as a single document. (The word count when you click on the Draft as a whole document will be the full count, as is the count when you mouse over the search bar.) So when I'm trying to figure out how to chapter a fic, I usually get out the folders.
A while back on Tumblr I put up a guide for how I've set up the Compile system to work with AO3. I have it set up now where I can just click a button and it will export a text file that is marked up with just enough HTML that I can copy it into AO3's HTML upload. Which I find very convenient.
(I wrote it for the Mac version but as far as I know the Windows version now has the same Compile system.)
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Date: 2021-05-06 03:41 pm (UTC)I started out just using the notecards to describe each scene but I eventually ended up making use of a bunch of other features. I really like Composition Mode. I use the research section for fanart (if I'm working on a BB/RBB), comics panels, PDFs, imported webpages -- you can fit a whole lot of stuff in there. I've done things like color-code scene labels by POV, which makes it easy to see how my POV is getting weighted. As I've edited fic I have changed the icons on the scenes to reflect their status. You can "snapshot" individual scenes as a version control system and then revert to previous versions if you've made edits you don't like. (Although honestly I just keep a doc in the Research folder of everything I've cut.)
You mention above about adding word counts to the card titles -- Scrivener will actually do chapter-level word counts for you on the fly. If you make folders within your draft, you can drag/drop scenes into folders, and if you're in the mode that lets you read something as a whole document, the live word count at the bottom will be the count for that folder; clicking on the folder will let you read that particular folder's documents as a single document. (The word count when you click on the Draft as a whole document will be the full count, as is the count when you mouse over the search bar.) So when I'm trying to figure out how to chapter a fic, I usually get out the folders.
A while back on Tumblr I put up a guide for how I've set up the Compile system to work with AO3. I have it set up now where I can just click a button and it will export a text file that is marked up with just enough HTML that I can copy it into AO3's HTML upload. Which I find very convenient.
(I wrote it for the Mac version but as far as I know the Windows version now has the same Compile system.)