I don’t know if this is technically possible, but it would be nice to be able to import folders and files from one project into another. (Sometimes information that you’re saving for one project turn out to be apposite to another, or you need to make a new project as information grows unfeasibly large.)
If you have two projects open at the same time you can simply drag folders or files from one to the other. (A copy will remain in the project of origin). Or you can use “File – import” to import one project into another.
cheers
william
Actually, I was thinking of something similar.
Would it be possible to implement a project agnostic section in the binder for storing ideas and concepts that don’t fit in a project but may be useful later, or for things that have relevance to multiple projects? For example, sometimes I write up characters and their backgrounds, scenes, or descriptive narratives just to get the creative juices flowing, but don’t have any particular use for them at the moment of their creation. I have created a bunch of folders and files to store all this information, but as I am looking to migrate all my writing to Scrivener it would be far more convenient to have a place to access this information within Scrivener so I can quickly copy, or move the relevant items to a new project when needed.
That sounds like an excellent usage of the new Scratch Pad, which will operate independently of projects—and indeed can be used even if no projects are open. It will be able to store multiple note files, and will offer the same sort of easy transfer of information into your project proper, with the main difference being that the tool now accommodates any open projects, rather than just the one.
One other nice thing about it is that it will store these notes as regular RTF files off of your Documents folder. That means you’ll be able to drag all of your current notes that you’ve accumulated and put them into this area—they’ll show in the Scratch Pad immediately.
While the new Scratch Pad AmberV speaks of might do you, I suspect that the assemblage of materials you speak of might better be housed in a project of it’s own – a project of nascent project and character ideas. This puts absolutely all the organizational power of Scrivener to work for you to manage your repository of ideas and such. I maintain just such a project and it is always an exciting place to be, and a pleasure to have such easy access to all that stuff. Plus it is easy to add to particular project ideas as the continue to simmer on your backburner, and likewise easy to move one of them to it’s own separate project when the time comes. For me the trans-project scratch pad might be an interim place for such ideas, if I did not at the moment wish to open my nascent project project.
Just my two cents.
Greg
There is definitely that too. If you need big-time organisational power, nothing like an auxiliary Scrivener project sitting around. It’s ability to drag-and-drop between projects and restore all meta-data makes this an excellent way to keep track of details.
Scratch Pad is going to be good for gathering research on the Web, jotting down quick ideas, and then eventually shuttling those ideas to projects. Ultimately, it is just a window with a list of notepads in it. Simple but effective for the right jobs.