Add "dynamic dimensions" to corkboard view (location, character, date, plotline, etc.)

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While the corkboard is useful to visualize the manuscript in “manuscript order”, it doesn’t do much to help with, say, timeline order. Or which character appears in which scene/chapter. Or which location. Or which character is in which location!

The outline view is a little closer, but there’s only ever one view - and it’s not dynamic. It’s always manuscript vertical, metadata horizontal.

For Scrivener to take another step into “one tool to rule them all” it would be incredibly helpful to create a view where the user can select what to have in both dimensions of a card view, have multiple views into the same manuscript, and to have the views be dynamics. Think “Excel pivot-table”.

The nearest I’ve seen to this would be Plottr. But there are two problems there: 1. Its sync with Scrivener isn’t two way, and doesn’t sync Plottr’s tags etc. with Scriveners metadata, and 2. Plottr’s dimensions are not linked to different kinds of data - horizontal dimension is manuscript structure, vertical dimension is whatever the user manually decides to use, but is not dynamic.

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I think there could be some cool things to this idea—though I’m not the one to tell you how possible it is with our programming!

I did want to add that in the Corkboard options, you can show keyword colors, label colors, and status stamps, so you can utilize those to get some good at-a-glance information in the Corkboard. Probably not too useful if you have a ton of settings and characters, but if you have a few main characters and settings to track, you can see that info using those tools if you have them set up in a smart way.

You can also arrange the Corkboard by label!

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