How to add Bookmark (aka Project Note)

[random_pattern]

@November_Sierra

It’s not called “Bookmarks”, true. But select your manuscript in the Binder (the root item, if you want), hit ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ K and boom, all your comments. In a list. Jump-ready. To the exact locations.

That’s it! THANK YOU.

[kewms]

@random_pattern

I have just finished over the weekend the first draft of the first novel in a series, 164,000 words. I have five more books to write. I need a bookmarks feature.

I’m pretty sure you didn’t write 164,000 words all in one chunk. If your chapters are 10,000 words or so, you probably didn’t write them all in one chunk, either.

The advice about using Comments is good. But I also find that many people are entirely too reluctant to split their manuscript into pieces that match the way they actually work. Then they write wish list items to “fix” something that wouldn’t be a problem in the first place if they were willing to embrace Scrivener’s “chunk-based” approach.

[brookter]

It depends what sort of bookmark you want: if your bookmarks are full of different information about the specific location, then the comments feature will work fine.

But if you just want to mark a few locations with the same message each time (say FIX!, or START AGAIN HERE!), then you could also try this approach.

E.g. Decide on a code for ‘Start Again Here’ – @@ perhaps.

Then when you want to drop the bookmark, just create an inline annotation with the code (or cmd-shift-a @@ Escape).

When you want to go back to that spot, then use Quick Search (Ctl-opt-g) on @@ – the dropdown list will allow you to go straight to it (presumably you only have one Start Again bookmark at a time…)

For FIX style bookmarks, use the same approach – perhaps use %% as a code. Then:

1. Edit > Find > Find by Formatting will allow you to search for annotations with the code %% and shift-opt-cmd-g will cycle through each one.

2. Project Search on %% will bring up every document containing the Fix bookmark - combine them together and you get a visual guide to which bits need fixing.

This advantage of inline annotations is that they give a nice visual at-a-glance approach, rather than having to scan through all the comments. You can of course mix and match inline annotations and comments so you can decide which to use when, and of course, both can be ignored at compile time. And you can convert inline annotations to comments and back at any time with Edit > Transformations > Convert…

HTH

[random_pattern]

@kewms

I also find that many people are entirely too reluctant to split their manuscript into pieces that match the way they actually work

My chapters run average 5000 words each. The book has five Parts, each roughly 8 chapters.

[kewms]

Do you write 5000 words in a sitting? Do you have multiple scenes (fiction) or sub-topics (non-fiction) per chapter?