You can Sync all your Scrivener files to an external folder, to Dropbox or with Simplenote or IndexCard for iPad. This is a quick overview of Sync to an external folder. I use Dropbox for this. It allows me to pick up any file from a Scrivener project, work on it with any program, and Sync it back to Scrivener. The syncing is automatic. Although I use it for my own  purposes, I have also used it on joint projects where the person I’m working with is using a word processor. They can just open up any file from the Sync folder on Dropbox and so long as they save it back with the same name, Scrivener will reabsorb it into the project with all edits. Lovely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open the Sync window from the File menu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You get a bunch of options covering what exactly to sync and whether to take a Snapshot in Scrivener before syncing the files. You also get to handle how non-Draft items are handled in Scrivener, i.e. where they are imported to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is all the files from a Scrivener project exported to Dropbox with numbering. You can open any of them with any word processor- they are RTF files.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And without numbering. Personally, I find the numbering system rather confusing as there is no allowance for the contents of folders. It can be hard to work out which scene is which. You can help yourself in this respect by having a logical naming process, or even by numbering within your own naming system and not using auto numbering.