I am new to scrivener, just have been testing and writing some stuff about a week.
What I did probably understand already is that it is not possible to make a link or reference to a spesific location within a file/webpage.
After that I began to wonder that is it possible to make notes/highlights/any kind of marking to these files in research -folder?
When collecting interesting books, articles etc for research in physical world I would use pen to make notes to the page margins, use post-it notes to mark pages, highlight sentences/ paragraphs with highlighting pen etc. So is it possible to mark the files like this? If not any ideas how to do it?
Scrivener’s views of PDFs, Webarchives, image files and other non-rich-text files is very basic. Mostly it has to do with viewing them, maybe zooming the images to fit in your “editor” window. I put “editor” in quotes because beyond those basic resizing steps, you often can’t do any real editing of these types of files.
What I would suggest for annotating your web pages and images is to employ external programs. You can open anything in your research folder in an external editor via the contextual menu. Apple’s Preview app lets you highlight, add notes, put boxes (and maybe circles) around parts of your PDF files… You can also re-visit web pages you have in your research folder and “print” them to PDF, then use preview to mark them up.
For .jpg, gif, .png and other image files, I prefer a program called Skitch (though Preview might still work for them as well…). I think it’s available from the Mac App store for very cheap (as in free). It takes a little bit to understand how to use it, but once you get the hang of it, it’s a breeze to annotate an image.