Once V3 has been shipped and the last few bugs squished, please may I ask the team to consider adding the option to have links/cross references to specified points in the text?
In Word, for example, I can include a named anchor at any point in the text and then refer to it (e.g. see page xxx) from anywhere else, so that as the document gets edited, the page reference will update. (You can also make it refer to footnote, chapter or table numbers, etc.)
It would be extremely useful to be able to do something similar in Scrivener. You could then set up your compile options to specify how such links were to be handled in the final output (e.g. as the kind of reference I describe above, or as a hyperlink, etc.)
It sounds like you’re asking for a text to text linking capability. If so, then yup it would be an awesome feature. OneNote can do it, and I use it all the time.
Because it would be so awesome, it’s been requested multiple times throughout the years for Win and Mac. Here are a number of separate threads making the same request, with workaround suggestions from L&L.
L&L’s response is basically “no can do at this time”, with the recommendation to break your documents into smaller chunks, create a link to the document with the important text, and then use Scrivenings to put your words back together.
That might be a viable workaround for some writers/writing, but not for me. Perhaps it will work for you.