Free Form Corkboard

Scrivener Wish List
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I love the corkboard, especially on the Mac! I know you’re goal is to make the two versions work alike; however, if you feel so inclined, I would love to be able to free-form the cards in Windows without the “snap” feature–it would help my brain work more freely. Snapping is so reminiscent of my former military days…eeek!

Maybe a little priority on this feature–if it fits in with the scheme of things.

Thanks in advance for your consideration!

Bob

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I heartily second this request. For what it’s worth, the snap feature is fine when I’m working out a subplot. But then at some point I blend together the subplots into a full novel corkboard outline - the snap feature makes it awkward to juggle several plotlines.

A format that used columns that snap might also be useful. Thanks.

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I think I’m thirding the same suggestion. “Snap” isn’t the term I’d have used for the Corkboard cards as they are, but my wish is that there was a way to arrange them free form with spaces between them as I’d choose both horizontally and vertically. Thanks for considering.

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The freeform implementation will be either fully freeform, where you can have cards piled all over the place (though you could certainly order things a bit more carefully if you wished, but there would be no “snap” at all into some invisible grid), what you currently have, and a “stacked” mode where you can grab two or more containers and examine the contents of them in a stack. This would be either in rows or columns. Also from freeform there will be a way to convert the arrangement into binder order again. Freeform all by itself completely ignores binder order so you can be free to do whatever you want.

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Thanks. That sounds great. I’ll look forward to it.

I’m a new user, about a month with the trial and bought recently. I’m really in love with the program.

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Thanks! Glad to hear it. :slight_smile:

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Thanks Amber,

If you were to use the total Free-form implementation, it would then be good, using the ctrl-leftclick, to select the cards a user wanted to put into a folder, group together, drag together, or delete, etc. This would be just like having “stickies” on my screen to repliacte a virual version of my real desktop – my workflow :smiley: .

Bob