I’ve found I can compile documents outside of the Manuscript/Draft folder.
All I did was select Compile > Current Selection.
Beforehand, I allocated a section type to the document I wanted to compile.
This is a quick and easy to compile notes and whatever else might be useful to have outside of Scrivener.
It wouldn’t work with the Compile > Manuscript default though, but that’s intentional and intuitive.
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A useful tip!
Note that it will only work for text files, though. Expect the Compile command to choke if you try to make it assemble arbitrary research files.
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Collections are another way of compiling stuff from outside of the Draft, which makes sense, since they are in a way kind of like a saved selection.
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