Earlier today I put a comment on a selected piece of text in a chapter. Now how do I find it? I have no idea where it is. There doesn’t seem to be any option in Find or a Go To anywhere in the program for this. It’s not enough to just see the comment displayed in the right hand sidebar…I need to be able to jump to where it is in the book (in the text). Does anyone know how to do this? I couldn’t find anything in the manual. Thanks.
Double-click ?
[EDIT] Well, I just checked and it ain’t quite double-click, but rather the first time you click on it. So basically, click at the bottom of the comment list (outside of the comment itself) then on the comment.
(That’s at least how it works for the Windows version.)
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If you click the comment it should make the anchor for that comment visible in the editor. It does for me. And to me it’s far preferable to what you get in word processors, a plethora of lines criss-crossing the text. It seems YMMV.
Mark
That mostly worked. Thanks. You have to first bring up the Bookmarks panel from a shortcut to see the Comment (why the Bookmarks panel?), then click on the the Bookmark (it then appears in the right hand sidebar), then you double click on that [ed: actually, single click].
I’ve never liked the Comments or Bookmarks features in Scrivener. I love so much else about the program, but I’ve always found the implementation of these features lacking. Every time I try to learn more about either, I hit a brick wall.
I’m not a Mac user, but that definitely makes no sense to me.
Not at all like the Windows version where Comments & Footnotes have their own panel.
They do. But actually, that’s just the beginning of my problems. For instance, I open the panel for Bookmarks, and nowhere is there anything to click on to insert a Bookmark right where my cursor is in the chapter right now! (Which iOS does have.) This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy. I’m searching “insert Bookmark” everywhere right now—in the manual, online—and getting nowhere.
I see.
That is not what bookmarks are. At all.
Can’t insert them “in” a document.
They are rather a way to link a document to another one. Offering a quick way to recall that specific document from that second one ; and vice versa.
So basically, when creating a bookmark, it is the whole document, not somewhere in it, that is bookmarked.
You create a bookmark by dropping the target document in the current document’s bookmark panel.
That’ll create a two-way bookmark. (Both documents will end up with a bookmark linking to the other document.)
You can also use this menu (which has a few extra functions) :
In the Inspector panel, the 5th (and last) icon at the top looks like a speech bubble. If you click that, it will show shortcuts to your comments.