Curiouser and curiouser!
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It looks like this. People seem stymied by this idea. It feels completely natural to me. (This is a mock-up, the text taken from Crichton’s Jurassic Park):
Scrivenings mode looks pretty much the same as that.
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Nope. Not at all. Scrivenings is a collection of many separate documents. I get the idea for it and I see the appeal for some people. Besides seeming cluttered to me, it feels too easy for things to shift around. I’ve worked with multiple documents using Scrivenings. The experience is completely changed and, for me, the flow of writing destroyed.
Cluttered? It looks almost exactly the same. No footnotes, but otherwise…
The headings would become document names, then hide the Binder et voila!
Again, nope. I’ve used Scrivener in almost all the ways it’s possible to use it. This is what works for me. My brain isn’t your brain. We likely experience the writing process very differently.
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I need to create a document which links to certain points within a year, (…) This is a live document, meaning that it is not intended for publication, but rather as a continually growing document. I just need to be able find highlighted entries when I want them.
You do not need a physical/to-be-published document, do you?
How about inserting Scrivener comments to the points to be referenced?
Or using an inline personal code to search for? Have a look to Vernor Vinge computer screen
http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm
http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/images/Vinge_screenshot.png
Best.
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I’ll try that. Thanks. That may work.
I don’t see how the inline personal code idea would help, but using inspector comments seems like a great idea.
Inspector comments stack up in the inspector all together and if you tap on one, the editor will scroll to the area where that comment is attached. You can select anything in your text (or even add a term for the purpose) and make it into an inspector comment and make the content of the comment be some suggestive word or phrase.
Using the comment stack later in the inspector gives you then a handy way to “index into” the main doc.
A downside is that you cannot sort the comment entries so your index entries remain in text-order, and it might also happen with your large documents that the list of index entries you want to make gets quite long, making it hard to find things in even that list.
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I actually think this may be the solution. It’s just a minor thing really and doesn’t detract from this great piece of software. I thought maybe Scrivener had an manual indexing function, but I see it doesn’t. That might be something to consider for future development.
Thanks to everyone for the interest and the ideas. Only other writers would be willing to discuss in detail something as wonky as writing process.
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