In the previous version of Scrivener, I created many documents and templates that incorporated Text Bookmarks. It was very useful. I relied on the “View --> Text Bookmarks” function in the drop-down menu to give me a quick overview of these documents (some of them very long outlines). I could easily scroll down and find the portion of the document I needed, click on it, and jump immediately to that point in the document. Now I can find neither a way to view these text bookmarks I created, nor add new ones.
I organized many outlines and research documents in this way. I hope there’s still a way to utilize this function.
Yes, from the What’s New appendix of the user manual:
Now what I didn’t explicitly suggest there is a way of migrating one’s old text bookmarks to inspector comments. To do this in bulk:
With no text selected in the editor, use the Edit ▸ Transformations ▸ Convert Inline Annotations to Inspector Comments menu command.
That’s pretty much it—the rest is cleanup to your particular taste. For example I would set the background colour a bit lighter, maybe just use the built-in Blue (⌘A to select all comments, right-click and set to blue), and then I would collapse them all to one-liner’s by tapping on the ← with them selected.
You might want to search and replace the asterisks out to something else. I’ve always preferred something a little more informative like “MARK//”—but I also use asterisks for Markdown—without that the symbol might be distinct enough on its own.
I had briefly tried to substitute comments for the bookmarks, but I didn’t like the look of them, and I didn’t do enough of them to make it obvious that clicking on them would take you to that point in the text.
But with your added suggestions of changing the color and collapsing them to one-liners, it really works well. And instead of doing ** for bold on larger sections and * for subdivisions of those sections (which is how I worked with the text bookmarks), I’m color coding the comments to show divisions and subdivisions.
One follow-up question: Is there any way to eliminate the word “Comment” at the beginning of each comment?
Thanks again for your help. I really appreciate the time you took to answer my question.
I’m afraid not. The pane is shared by footnotes as well, and while colour may serve as an indicator for type, it isn’t reliable since all of the colours can be changed. I’ll give some thought to trimming that down though—it’s something I’ve noticed as well, that at default inspector width, the signifier takes up half of the space otherwise used by content.
Glad to hear it’s working good for you all around though.
All right, we’re probably going to go with something that looks like the following, for the 3.0.2 update. When expanded, it would still use the full word, but then it’s okay because it isn’t competing with the content.
