I didn’t see this in the first few pages of Search, but I apologize if it’s already been requested:
I’d love to be able to have a different color as the background of my writing space for different projects. I currently use a faint orange background for an ongoing project, and I’ve come to associate the creative work with that color. I would like to start using Scrivener for some other projects, and I think it would be helpful to use different colors – or no color at all – for each of these. As I currently see it, there is only one way to change the color, and that is through Preferences, which affects all projects. If this can be changed so that each project can have its own color, it would be a great feature.
Thanks for your suggestion. This would need to be a project preference, which isn’t impossible (there are already project text preferences), but I’m wary of adding too many more options given the wealth that are already there already - so maybe one for further consideration in the future if it comes up more often.
While you can’t change the background color on a per-project basis, you can change the label color for each document within your project, which can show up in the binder and on the cork board. I’ve used it before to track alternating view points between protagonist and antagonist, but there’s no reason you couldn’t set the default label’s color for each project and just leave it that color.
Ha, that was a mistake wasn’t it? Maybe in the future, though - I might consider it for 2.5 or something. I don’t think it’s a bad idea, but it’s Yet Another Option ™ and “too many options!” is probably the most common complaint we have (fortunately we don’t have too many complaints, though ).
It’s the only thing I really miss in Scrivener: not to be able to have a tiny but at a glance recognizable distinction between two (or more) open projects.
Personally, I would prefer to be able to choose the binder background colour or the toolbar colour (or the line above the toolbar with the document’s name in it) on a project base, rather than the writing background. Why? I always create two project files for each of my projects. One is the ‘pure’ writing environnement and the other one the research file. (With ‘research’ used in both.) They have nearly the same name and mostly a similiar folder structure. For fast switching it would be very comfortable to be able to distinct at a glance which one is the research or the writing file, without being forced to look at the written file name in the toolbar. Luxury poblems, I know… ))
Where can I find the ‘project text preferences’ in Scrivener for Windows? I would really like to have such a feature, since I have multiple projects with different audiences and ‘tones’, and would like to work with a different formatting for each project. The Text Editor options in the Preferences screen sets it “globally”.
It’s under the “Project” menu. However, this was a Mac 2.0 feature, so I’m not sure it’s in the Windows version yet (sorry, I’m away from my Windows machine at the moment and can’t remember off-hand).
This isn’t yet available in the Windows version; for now, beyond the global preferences, you might find using Format > Font > Copy/Paste Font or Format > Text > Copy/Paste Ruler, depending on your needs.
It can’t be possible to have too many options! It is possible to have more options than can reasonably be supported by software developers to keep the software from having too many problems.
I do like this idea of different text background colors for different projects. I frequently have more than one project open, so a color coding would be a convenience. Not crucial, of course, but certainly convenient.
Not a perfect solution, but a bit of a work-around is to set up a bunch of different Theme Preferences with the colors you want for each project. Then when you open that project, go into Preferences and change the Theme Preferences (in the Appearance tab) to the one you want to use for that project. It’s a manual process that you’ll have to repeat each time you work on a different project, but it might work for you.
That said, I agree that it would be nice to be able to associate a Theme Preference file with a particular project in order to automate this process.
Hi Friends,
I’m working between 2 projects, typing the revisions of project 1 from scratch into project 2. Sometimes, I get confused which is which, and am looking for a good way to immediately distinguish between them. In an ideal universe, I’d change the background color (note I don’t mean in composition mode). But as far as I can tell, this can only be done globally through Scrivener preferences, which of course defeats the purpose. I’ve also considered changing the font color or style which can be done in project settings->formatting, but since this only applies to new documents, it will require some juggling because I’m a ways into retyping everything.
Hoping I’m missing something obvious, and if not, please add this to the wish list,
-P
Why don’t you use Scrivener’s Snapshot facility. All chapters/scenes are in one project and found at the same Binder listing. You don’t need to colour anything. Comparing documents, Scrivener will illustrate the differences (additions/deletions) to you.
This is an interesting idea, but I’m hoping for greater differences as I toggle back and forth. It helps me to have a clean(er) slate when I’m working with a new version rather than keep everything in the same project.
If anyone working for (rather than in Scrivener is reading this, please consider adding an easy ability to change the appearance of a document within a project to future releases.
I’d solve this by using Project > Project Settings… > Formatting to change the default font in Project 1 to something easily recognisable as different and then use Document > Convert > Text to Defaulr Formatting… If you have made heavy use of Styles, though, that might make it more difficult, depending how you’ve set them up.
Whatever the case, on copy-and-pasting from Project 1 to Project 2, I’d use "Paste and Match Style (Shift-Opt_Cmd-V, unless you’ve set your own keyboard shortcut).
With respect, your approach seems counterintuitive to the concept of a Scrivener project that has the ability to colour code versions of documents. I’d find it a horrible irritation and a constraint on productive time switching back and forth implementing cut and pastes all the time.
That said, as a Mac user, your projects can be set to appear side-by-side, a tab click away, the old to the left, the new to the right or vice versa. Windows users have less useful/user-friendly peek windows available side-by-side from the OS Taskbar.
Project specific settings are already possible as per @xiamenese reply above.
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