First of all, I’m not totally sure if is it possible or not to interact with the binder in full screen mode, but I’ve tried looking for how to do it, in the manual and around forums, with no success on finding info about it. In case there’s some way of doing this, please forgive this message and excuse my useless proposal.
I make an intensive use of the full-screen function in Scrivener, it helps me a lot to keep concentrated on my work, so I’ve developed some sort of fullscreen addiction and every time I start a long edition I put this mode on. My problem is, I’ve been acquainted with developing my final drafts by combining several unfinished brainstormed docs, and when I do a long edition, I need to go back to shorter scrivenings looking for ideas or texts I remember I wrote. To do that, I have to exit full screen and enter again after “text gathering”. It would be more comfortable if I could just use a keystroke or some clicks to select the document I want to jump into without leaving full screen mode.
Perhaps, a floating binder window like the inspector one would neutralize the full screen purposes on a distraction-free writing, being at the same time non functional for sorting or collecting info. But a simpler browsing palette would help to jump from one document to another without having to leave full-screen and enter again.
You’ve already got full “random access” binder navigation in full screen: [b]View/Go To[/b]. Select items as “Favourites” by right-clicking on them in the binder, to bump them to the top of this list for easy access in FS. Note also you can quickly load QuickReference panels from the View menu, too; which I suspect might prove useful for your shorter notes (again, adding these oft used notes to favourites will increase their visibility in the QR menu). That covers long jumps.
As for spatial navigation in and around where you are working, you have some good options.
[b]Opt-Cmd-UpArrow & DownArrow[/b]: these activate the “linear navigation” buttons in the header bar. They move you up and down the binder in a “flat list” fashion, ignoring all depth.
[b]Cmd-[ & ][/b]: history navigation; self-explanatory; and good when you need to jump some place to reference something and are ready to go back to what you were doing.
[b]Ctrl-Cmd-R[/b]: this command broadens your scope. If you are editing a scene, pressing this will jump you up to the nearest chapter, showing the scenes around it in a scrivenings session.
[b]Cmd-4[/b]: inverse to that, this isolates rather than broadens, and is thus quite nice in conjunction with the above. You can find a nearby scene, move your cursor there, and hit [b]Cmd-4[/b] to isolate that document in the editor and view it by itself.
In a scrivenings session, the [b]View/Go To[/b] menu transforms into a ToC for the session. Use this to jump about in a section. If you want to jump some place else entirely; [b]Cmd-4[/b] first to leave scrivenings and then use the Go To menu normally
I was toying with this when I first went to respond, and I came up at a halt. Is there a way to do the navigation if you load a Scrivenings session? It seems that all the options for the normal Go To menu are limited to the documents in the Scrivenings session, and I don’t know how to get out of it and load a different document without exiting full screen.
Yes, that’s actually the trick I mentioned in #5. If you need to restore the Go To menu to the full binder, just press Cmd-4 to escape scrivenings, first.
Okay, but now I’m slinking back. I tried this and cmd-4 does nothing, and I also see that the option is grayed out in the menu. Likewise with ctrl-cmd-5 in a non-Scrivenings session. So…what am I doing wrong?
Thank you very much for your quick and detailed response and sorry for posting a not needed wish. I’m a skimmer too and still don’t barely know the manifold corners and routes this program offers. Your application is surprisingly well thinked!!
As far as I’m concerned, my question is solved. Your tips tell me exactly where to find what I was looking for. The quickreference one is perfect. Thanks again.