Update to my previous post: I’ve reconsidered my workflow to fit changing circumstances. I now sometimes use the same information to write as many as three or four different short pieces for different publications. That’s led me to keep more of my source material for those stories in a single Scrivener project (usually for the month of the events I’m covering), in the Research section of the Binder. Then I write the various short pieces and export them to TextEdit files that I then post to the web or send to an editor. That doesn’t mean using a single Scriv project for everything; it means a lot of small Scrivener projects that I delete once I’ve exported the last pieces to be written from the source info.
I guess I’ve realized that Scrivener – at least as I’ve customized it – is just so comfortable and easy to work in that it makes me want to use it whenever possible, i.e. whenever it would be no slower or less efficient than just writing a text file. So I now use it in any piece that requires any organizational capacity (more than, say, a short listing that doesn’t require more than one section) or even a few source documents. It feels like working at my desk in my study – like home.