Hello!
I’m rather new to Scrivener but having just completed my first book (and am now going through the torture of trying to get it published), I thought I’d try Scrivener for my second book.
I am an Apple user, and wrote the first entirely in Pages, which actually worked exceedingly well for how it turns out I write.
My preferred way to take notes and plan a book is mind mapping, and I use Apple’s Freeform tool to do this. I’ve used other mind map apps over the years, but the integration with the Apple Pencil makes Freeform perfect for my personal preferences.
The problem is, Freefrom is abysmal at exporting information. There aren’t “files” that you can simply link to in something like Scrivener.
My workaround for this problem is to simply select all the appropriate objects in a mind map, command-c, then open a document/Character Sketch/Note, whatever, in Scrivener and command-v, there you go.
That has worked, but, the resultant image is impossible to read unless I up the zoom on Scrivener to multiple hundreds of percent (I make big maps). I can do that, but, increasing the zoom level seems to be a global setting, which means that going to any other document makes things rather absurdly large.
Is there an ability to have a per-document zoom level, or, some way to pinch-and-zoom (I use a trackpad on my Mac) to make an image more visible? Or, am I doing things wrong by pasting in images in the way I am? Since I can’t easily export from Freeform, I was trying to avoid the intermediary step of “printing” the Freeform board to a PDF, and then adding the PDF to Scrivener - this does work, and I can pinch and zoom fine, but, I was hoping to find a way to do the copy-paste method, as it would make updating Scrivener a bit easier.
Sorry for the n00b question, I have tried solving this on my own and perhaps am just a bit too new to how Scrivener works to see what must be obvious.
Thank you!
