Feature Request - History List & Undo

Scrivener Scrivener for Windows
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Undo is very limited in Scrivener, especially regarding moving and organizing. It would be very very helpful to have a history function, much like in Adobe Photoshop or Presonus Studio One, where each action is recorded and listed, so that it’s possible to go back x numer of steps.
Reasons: Using “Move To” I’ve sometimes clicked in the wrong place and I can’t figure out where my file eneded up. Or if I try and drag something and I release at mouse button at the wrong time, I may have trouble finding where it went. There is no way to “undo” these actions, which is very annoying.

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I don’t know the applications you mentioned, so without context can’t grasp the advantages that may be beneficial to Scrivener.

My experience of Scrivener is as follows:

  1. Undo is very powerful within a document, and working on multiple documents you can go to any one of them and undo their content within a session.
  2. You can move from the Editor to Notes to the Synopsis, and to other editable areas, and each retains its own Undo history within a session.
  3. If a document is inadvertently lost, then a Project Search of something unique you wrote will list the document. You then use Reveal In Binder by right clicking the document icon to show where it landed and move it back to where you want it. There are various ways to move documents, dependant on where you might have relocated it, from commands to keyboard combinations. None are distracting or unreasonably time consuming.
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Here is the thread you are looking for, with regards to undo in the binder.

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There’s another consideration I haven’t seen mentioned here or in the messages linked by @AmberV.
The Move To menu option has an advantage over dragging and dropping.
What you could do to find where your document has been moved to is select another document and right-click. You will see an additional menu option has been added: Move To “[Folder/Doc Name]” again.
That’s where you mistakenly moved the document you were working on.
Of course, there may be any number of documents/sub-document in that Folder or Document, but it remains an alternative to find your work.

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