Is there any way to have bi-directional links in Scrivener?
I would like to link all speech of a character to their character page, and on their character page have a list of all those references. Doing that manually is, of course, error-prone.
Wikipedia has a nifty “what links here” feature. Is something like that possible in Scrivener with anything? Links, tags, whatever?
Both Version 2 and Version 3 have a setting to have backlinks created automatically.
In Version 3 it’s in Preferences > Behaviours > Document links > Document links and Bookmarks create back-link Bookmarks — the backlinks are visible in the Inspector Bookmarks panel.
There’s a similar feature in V2 preferences, but I can’t remember exactly where, sorry…
(But bear in mind that these links are document based (ie to the item in the binder), not to specific text within a documents
I am using links to provide navigation from Index items and locations within documents where links to that Index entry originate. Is there a way to view a list of all documents that link to a particular Index entry document?
Example:
Glossary Document “Charles Darwin”
13 manuscript documents have links to this glossary document.
Is there a way to view a list of all links to my “Charles Darwin” index document?
Google’s AI says that right clicking on a document in the Binder will bring up a contextual menu that contains an item “Reveal Links”, but no such item appears when I do so here.
Thanks, Randall
Scrivener → Settings → Behaviors → Document Links has an option to have document links create back-link bookmarks. If that option is set, then the Document Bookmarks for “Charles Darwin” will include a list of all of its incoming links.
Google’s AI is useless, but there’s a whole section on links in the manual.