Ok, I am not sure I am going to articulate this correctly, I’ve thrown a few sentences at Google to no avail so I will ask here.
I usually work in Cork Board mode. I love adding a new scene when I want to change up the POV or the Pace.
I had a thought that revision might work better in Scrivenings mode. Where is sort of auto compiled into one big document. Maybe its too big to effectively work that way. I will have to discover that for myself.
But either way is it possible to add a scene to the chapter document from Scrivenings mode? Where I can start writing but If I switch back to Cork Board there would be an new card representing the addition?
That is what I am specifically curious about. If not that’s fine but it’s going to bug me if it is an obvious technique and I just dont know it.
Specifically, the new document will appear in the Binder just below whatever document currently contains the cursor.
You can also split the Editor to give yourself both a Corkboard and a Scrivenings session for the same folder. Adding a document in either view will then cause it to appear in the other.
Have a look at Window > Layout > 3 pane (Corkboard): this sets up the window so that you have, from left to the right, the Binder, the Corkboard, and an Editor.
Now, if you click on any of the cards, and it will show you the text of the relevant document in the editor. Pressing cmd-n in any of the three panels will add a document.
This (and the equivalent 3 pane (Outline) layout) is very useful to get an overview of the project while still working on the text.
Another layout I like is the one where you have the Binder on the left, the Editor in the center, the Corkboard on the right. This way, the Editor remains in the center.