is there an easy way to arrange all my scenes under the “Scenes” folder - such as alphabetically… or by the location I’ve names them, etc? just so I can get an accurate scene count for each of the various locations etc…
i have turned on the index card numbers - if I then re-arrange my scenes, let’s say alphabetically… can i then go back and re-arrange per the index card number so they’re back in the correct sequential order after i’ve done my counts for the various locations, exteriors, etc.
It sounds like a temporary sort would do best for what you want. You can do these in the Outliner. Just change your view from corkboard to outliner, and then click on whichever column heading you wish to sort by. You can add columns by right-clicking anywhere in the header bar. Click again to sort descending, and a third time to go back to natural order. So if you’ve got your locations set by label or something, you could sort by that to group them together by location. If you want to see just those items from one location to get a count, select the block and then hit Cmd-Opt-O to isolate the outliner on the current selection. Now you have a count in the footer bar. Or you can use Shift-Cmd-O to use the other split so you don’t lose your place in the main outliner.
Index card numbering isn’t going to do what you want here. The only way to sort a corkboard is permanently, and that will renumber the cards. The original order is forever lost once you do that.
Apropos of this…would it be possible in a future version to have a “lock” feature for the corkboard index card numbering? I like to arrange chapters and then reference where they were originally. If I could have a toggle lock feature–which would hold the chapter numbering until I turn off the switch and only then would it re-order the numbering–I would love it. As of now, I have to print the index cards and move them about manually until I’m satisfied, then make the changes in Scrivener.
Wouldn’t the freeform corkboard do precisely what you want? The numbers stay the same no matter how you move things around, because you aren’t actually changing their position on a freeform corkboard. If you decide you like the new arrangement, you can use the button at the bottom to turn the freeform order into Binder order and “renumber” them.