And if you aren’t using bookmarks (as you speak of importing again to update), there is a Navigate ▸ Open ▸ in External Editor menu command and keyboard shortcut, for resources stored in the binder. That of course works for anything you import into a project, that Scrivener itself cannot edit, not just Scapple files.
As for the MindNode bit, I don’t fully understand that one. If Scapple was a hierarchical outliner like MindNode, and you put notes nested beneath other notes, then the correct way to import that into Scrivener would be to preserve that outline precisely, and have one text item nested beneath the other text item. Importing an outline into a dedicated outliner as something other than an outline would be very strange to me.[1]
But I might be misunderstanding, and you are thinking of this as something other than outlining, something more like notes having a notes field of some sort.
Hi, old thread…
Yeah, but better than starting a new one for the same exact thing, resulting in issues like the second linked thread above, where you have bits of the same conversation spread out over many multiple threads.
Which incidentally is what will happen if you use Background Shapes in Scapple, to organise groups of notes together, and then export the board as an OPML file and drop that into Scrivener. That’s the closest Scapple gets to hierarchy right there; an assumption in an export format that naturally works with hierarchy. Some mind-mapping programs, like FreePlane, have a way of adding extended notes to a headline in the tree—and that definitely would make sense to import as text content to the titled item, in Scrivener. ↩︎