I have had S. for a year but have not used it because I was so disappointed in it, but with the update I thought I would try again.
I have dozens of files to go through in my research and low and behold, to view a file I must right click, go to open, the go to open in right editor. What a pain!
I need a program that will allow me to click on a file and it shows up in the right pain, much like windows file manager, but works better and allows me to copy text so I can paste it into another file of notes, or even the text I am working on.
I have search download.com and another site but the programs I have tried are not worth spit.
Surely there is one out there that can view a file without crashing. If I could write a program I could made a fortune with a good file viewer.
Even if this one had a quick button, it will not view most web pages. It comes up with an hour glass and pretty much freezes up.
the fact that you can’t find one should give you an idea about how difficult it is to accomplish. If it was easy everyone would be able to do give you want you want. And scriv would provide the functionality natively.
It sounds like you’re going a roundabout way of loading the documents in Scrivener. Generally speaking, you can click an item in the binder and it will load in the active editor. It is possible however to lock the editor so that binder clicks do not affect it, and I wonder if you’ve done something like this. Is the header bar in the editor a dark pink? If so, you can unlock it using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L or via View > Editor > Lock in Place. The header bar should turn blue, or grey if there is not a split editor or it is the inactive editor of the two. When it’s not locked, the active editor (with the blue header bar) should automatically load the documents you select in the binder on the left.
Another possibility suggested by the specific wording you used “Open in Right Editor”, is that you’re selecting items in the editor outliner, rather than the binder. You can click the double arrow button (⇄) in the editor footer to automatically load selected items in the outliner in the other editor.
Ok, I am messing with it, and there seems to be other ways to click on a file and have it appear, but the problem is that S. does not like most web pages, basic html is ok, but blogs take a long time to load and can even make the program “not responding.”
Most of my research is online, so I will just have to do it the old way and try to use S. for the writing only.
Mike
There are a few different ways to import webpages as PDF, so you could try switching that. Copying and pasting just the relevant information from the webpage might be another option, to skip trying to include ads, additional comments, etc. if you don’t need them. If you’re using references to the website so you can view it live and those aren’t loading quickly, then maybe just try arranging the windows so you can have Scrivener on one half of the screen and your browser in the other. Scrivener isn’t a full-on web browser, and if you’ve got a lot of web research, it make sense to do it with the best tool you have.
It sounds like you said I could bring up links to pages in S.
How do I do that?
But when I see a site I want to investigate later, I usually just save the page to my research folder, so the best thing for me is to use a browser then save reliant text to a text file that can be easily read by S.
I found a program that seems to work real good. I have not used it long, but I has a file view panel and I can copy text from it to put into a text file or S.
So that alone makes it better than Windows Explorer.
It is called FreeCommander XE.
There are others that offer a 30 and 60 day free trial, which I will try out if this one starts crashing.
Mike
If you click the books icon in the inspector footer (second from the left), you’ll see the document or project references. (Clicking the “Document References” header bar will let you switch to project and vice versa.) You can drag URLs here from a browser or enter them manually with the “+” button to create links to webpages. Double-clicking the webpage icon will load it in your default browser, but you can also right-click and choose to open it in either editor.
For a number of years I’ve been using Directory Opus as a substitute for Windows Explorer. It has a viewer pane that can be toggled on and off and you can copy and paste from it. You can find it at gpsoft.com.au