Best way to handle multiple POVs per chapter

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Hello, I have multiple POVs throughout the book. Each scene is identified with its POV character as custom metadata. Sometimes chapters have more than 1 POV as they are arranged by plot rather than viewpoint (at least at the moment I want that flexibility - we’ll see if the feedback I get on it says to separate more). Sometimes the same character has a scene twice in a row in the same chapter, where it’s in two documents because that’s easier to write not because it’s important for the reader to know.

I want to have the character name before a section at the start of a chapter and when the POV changes within a chapter but not when there’s a new document that has the same character name.
As in:
1.
a) Jose
b) Jose
2.
a) Rose
b) Jose

should have headers like:
1.
Jose
2.
Rose
Jose

Right now, I have folders for each character name, but that’s turning out to be a headache as I change around chapters. I’m hoping someone has an idea that will make it easier for me to shift scenes around without lots of extra folder making and deleting but doesn’t give me a problem when I go to compile.

I’m using the Windows 3 RC.

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The only thing I can think of is to indent the follow-on document featuring the same character under the previous document where that character’s pov started.

So:
-Jose
–Jose (indented under previous Jose document)
-Rose
-Jose

Then, you could set how the project automatically assigns section types so that the first level indented documents are associated with a layout that includes the number and the character name metadata (1 Jose, 2 Rose, 3 Jose). Whereas the 2nd level indent would automatically get a different section type that just added that document’s text into the flow of the compiled document.

As you rearrange your documents, you can then control when a character name appears in the output simply by indenting same-character POV documents under other documents from that character PoV.

Make sense?

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That makes a lot of sense and definitely seems easier than what I’m doing now. Thanks!