ScribeWare Directions
  • 🚀Welcome to the ScribeWare Training Site
  • Getting Started
    • 📃Overview
    • ✨ScribeWare and Desktop Basics
      • 📗Understanding Chapters and Sections
      • 📈The Left Side Bar
      • ☑️Understanding Data Fields
      • 🚩Understanding Narratives
      • 🖊️Adding Observations
      • 🚩The Difference Between Narratives and Templates
      • 🎥Photos and Videos
      • 🗡️Cutting and Pasting Media Into a Report
      • ❓How Desktop and Mobile Work Together
    • Ideas for Multi-Family
    • 🚘The Mobile Version
      • 📙Written Overview of the Mobile App
      • 📽️Video Overview of the Mobile App
      • 🏗️Adding and Renaming Chapters and Sections
      • ➕Adding Pictures from Your Mobile Device's Gallery into a ScribeWare Report
      • 🔗How Syncing Works
      • 💉Photo Annotations on Mobile Using iMarkup
      • 💪Voice-to-text Tips For Scribers
    • 📸Managing Photos, Videos and Illustrations
      • 🎥Connecting Photos and Videos to Use in Your Report
      • 💉Picture in Picture Photo Editing
      • 🦅Tagging Photos
      • 📎The Report Directory
      • 📂External Media and Illustration Folders
      • 📉Adding Illustrations to The Illustrations Folders
    • 📩Submit Feedback for Desktop and Mobile
    • 🙏Finish Report Overview with The Request List Builder
    • 🥉Gunnysacks and Handling Multiple Defects With The Same System
      • 📸Photo Captions to Bullets Feature
      • 💰Using Gunnysacks to Reduce The Number of Comments You Need to Maintain
  • ADVANCED DESKTOP
    • 🖥️Setting a Summary Statement at the Top of Your Summary Page
    • 🌎Global Keyword Searching on Desktop
    • 🔍Inspector Only Notes
    • 🌳Using Logic Trees
    • ⚡Advanced Workflow for Multiple Defects with the Same System
      • 🚩Inspector Only Notes and Narrative Shortcuts
      • 🚩Gunnysacks and Magic Captions
    • 🎁What's New
  • Customizations
    • 💵Setting Up Your Business
      • ⚙️The Settings
      • ☀️Enter Company and Logo Information
      • 🚃Build Your Team
      • ✈️Build and Manage Your Agreements
    • 🔳Template Customization
      • ❗Be Sure You Understand How Templates Work in ScribeWare
      • 🏚️Building and Editing Descriptive Fields
      • 🪐Moving Fields Between Chapters and Sections
      • 🚆Inspector Only Notes for Blazing Fast Comments
      • 🔝Resequencing and Renaming Chapters and Sections
      • 🩹Recovering Chapters or Sections That Have Been Hidden
      • 🏎️Building Links for Instant-Comments
      • 🎩Tricks for building a super-flexible template that can apply to most jobs
      • 📸Building a Camera or Video Icon Into Your Template for Quick Photo Placement
      • 💣Deleting a Template
    • 🔡Narrative Customization
      • 🐋Understanding Narrative Comments
      • 🆎Editing Your Narrative Library of Pre-Made Comments
      • 🔦Adding Hidden Blue Titles to Your Narratives
      • 🕔Blending Your Imported Library From Another Software Into ScribeWare
      • 👩‍🎓Saving Illustrations with Narratives
      • 🚀Creating and Editing Text Replacement
      • Using Parent Comments
      • 💰Building Gunnysacks
    • 📙Library Features and Organization
      • 🎁Editing Library Categories
      • ⛏️Using Library Categories to Populate a Section of Your Report With narratives
      • 👜Moving a Narrative from One Section to Another Section of Your Template
      • 🍞Blending Your Library From Another Software Into ScribeWare
      • 🩹Editing and Cutting From Your Library
    • 🎓Adding Illustrations to the Illustrations Folders
    • ⚡Using Descriptions to Power Background Information and CYA
      • 🏰Setting Default Descriptions
      • 🏹Powerful and Effective CYA and Boilerplate
      • 🎙️Inspector Only Notes Where The Comment Stays Hidden
    • 🔌The Power of Boilerplate
    • 🖊️Contracts and Agreements
    • 💥The Power of Modifiers
      • 🚲Customizing Your Modifiers
      • 📺Setting a Default Modifier For a Section
      • 📡Showing No Major Concerns
      • 🪜Adding Sub-Modifiers to the Bottom of Narratives
    • 🕶️Customizing Your Summary Page
    • 🎯Photo Tags
  • Templates, Specialty Templates, Ancillary Services and Odd Jobs
    • 🌏The Narrative Template
    • ✔️Check Box Style With Short Narratives
    • 🗼Condo Inspections
    • 🐜Pest Inspections
    • 🌵Texas TREC Templates
    • ✏️Written Consultations and One-Item Inspections
    • 📽️Sewer Scope Inspection Reports
    • ♻️Re-inspections. Everyone's Favorite!
    • 🎱Pools and Spas
    • 🚒RV Inspections
    • 🌴California EEE Inspections
  • Into The Weeds
    • 📪Using PDF forms
    • Configuring PDF form fills in ScribeWare
      • Adding PDF form fields to your ScribeWare template
      • Uncover your PDF's Database Field names
      • Filling your PDF form with commonly used information
      • Filling your PDF form with field-specific information
      • Adding pages to your PDF with additional information
    • 🏅Customizing the Look of the Report
    • 📎Integrations
      • ISN
      • NXT
      • Zapier
    • 🚩Your Data in ScribeWare
  • Making the transition
    • 🐳How to import your Spectora templates into ScribeWare
    • 🌷How to import your Home Inspection Pro (HIP) template into ScribeWare
    • ℹ️How to import your InspectIt templates into ScribeWare
    • 😎How to import your HomeGauge templates into ScribeWare
    • 👣Transitioning from other software into ScribeWare
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • ❓What is the difference between Default Descriptions and Default Field Values?
  • Troubleshooting
    • Preview not opening
  • 🚓Troubleshooting Syncing
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  1. Getting Started
  2. ScribeWare and Desktop Basics

The Difference Between Narratives and Templates

This is critical to understand prior to making any template or library customizations.

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