What do they call them? Fanboys. Sign me up; I’ll join the club.
I love this program.
I needed to make a few notes as to where I was going to continue my work this morning in different sections of the book. Hmm… Seems like I remember seeing something about a “scratch pad.”
Wow! It was cool enough that I could jot down my notes and have it this handy, but, wait a minute, what does this mean - float?
Click that button and the sucker stays on top of everything, but transparent, stays where you can always find it but stays out of the way.
Glad it came in handy! The scratch pad is going to be a little different in 2.0. In 2.0, you will just be able to hit a hot key while in any application to bring the scratch pad up, so you don’t need to have it floating over anything.
All the best,
Keith
Will it still be able to “float” with the new version? Some people, not mentioning any names, need this extra reminder where things are when they are zoned in on a job.
There is one global scratch pad in 2.0. It stores files in a folder on your hard disk (location determined by the user, inside the ~/Documents directory by default). Then when you want to move a note to a project, you select the project as well as the document:
I’ve been here long enough that I should know the answer to this, but will that scratch pad be independent of Scrivener? Will we be able to jot notes on it anytime, then dump into a project later?
Scrivener will have to be open to call up the scratch pad itself. But because it stores its files in a folder on disk, you could dump RTF or RTFD files in that folder and they would appear in the scratch pad the next time you opened it. So you could use the folder as a general depository for notes that need to go into a Scrivener project at some point.
Forget what I said. I knew I was opening a can of worms when I posted it. Let’s reconvene on this topic in a year, when you realize the error of your ways.
Interesting… I’ve been using Scrivener for some time and wrote 7 novellas using it… and today I hear about the Scratch Pad for the first time. LOL I guess you never stop learning. Thanks for bringing this up.
How will Scrivener 2.0 handle scratch pads from 1.x projects? I currently use mine as a primary “project notes” section–like something I’m going to need and go back and verify, notes from my beta, that sort of thing–and use project notes for overall definitions and reference notes.
1.x scratch pad notes will be moved into the 2.0 scratch pad notes area.
But there’s something for you too, don’t worry - in 2.0 you can open project notes in a separate window, and it is tabbed. The tabs appear in the pop-up list in the inspector, too. So you could have one project notes tab open in the project notes window and another open in the inspector.
