I, like I’m sure most writers, continuously am having ideas of some notion I would like to include into an as of yet undetermined location in my text and Scrivener is rife with opportunities for capturing these ideas. The comments features, scratchpad and notes are effective tools for idea capturing. It would be excellent if Scrivener could take this one step further into idea cataloging and management.
It seems a great benefit to be able to capture an idea with a few word summary, short body, have a check box to denote the idea has been applied and a manner of recording where in the overall text the idea was applied, possibly even being able to link back to the area(s) of application. Making the idea catalog searchable would also be important.
Personally, I am plagued with having an idea, recording it, forgetting it, having it again and then recording it somewhere else. It can be a problem to have an idea, record it, come back to it and apply it only to find later I had applied it someplace earlier resulting in redundancy. Also a problem is applying an idea to the text, knowing I applied the idea to the text, but not quite remembering where I applied the idea to the text.
Just a bit of spontaneous food for thought as I have just once again stumbled over duplicity in idea application.
–Steve
