Hi,
suggestion here: I would really love to see a function to list inline annotations. I know there is “Search by format”, but this won’t do if you’re really looking for some specific annotation, but are not quite sure what the content of this annotation was.
Something like the “Project-Search” would be great. (And then to save those findings in a binder or something.)
Or at least some way to only print/compile a list of all inline annotations.
– Eiko
We’ll have something like that for you. There will be a menu command in the File/Export/ sub-menu for dumping out all annotations to an RTF file with the option to print the titles of the items they came from, too.
Ah, let me second this request! I just posted another question about whether there is an easy way to aggregate all inline annotations, and/or highlights, and/or underlines, and/or footnotes. This is terribly important not just for writers of academic papers, but for any writers who want to quickly review summaries of anything-- character traits, best ideas, bits of history-- that might be scattered across a project. I’m currently suffering for lack of such a feature. I use “search by format” with no text to review my notations, but this gets cumbersome. Any ideas about when this might come along?
Thanks.
I would say sooner than later for that one, as it was originally meant to be a part of the first release and had to get cut for timing reasons.
Hi,
I just discovered, via an earlier post I made in the “Technical” forum, that export annotations already exists!! Yeah!!! Could you clarify if that is the feature you meant would be in the pipeline (in which case it’s out) or if there are more refinements in store for us?
Cheers,
Shelley
This is the feature Ioa (AmberV) was talking about, yes. There will be more coming in other ways, though. 
Once we get inspector comments (think margin comments in Word), we’ll then be able to add a way to select all the displayed notes (which will be doable by opening multiple files in a Scrivenings session) and then copy and paste that into its own document if you wish.
There aren’t specific features planned at the moment for collecting all your text of various special formatting–so to gather all your underlined text or highlighted text, etc.–but you can do this with some manual work by using the Find by Formatting command to hop through your documents, then right-click the selected found text and choose “Append Selection to Document…” You could also do this by working with the split editor and dragging the selected text from the search on one side to copy it into the “collected brilliant thoughts” document in the other editor.
I’m so happy to be able to collect my annotations and export them, that I think it’s all I really need. I plan to use that formatting command now instead of underlining. Although that begs another question (if you can stand it): are you planning to add an export footnotes option?
There aren’t any plans for that. If you really want a list of footnotes though, you can compile your draft and set the footnotes to compile as endnotes, then just snip the rest out.
No, no. Don’t really need footnotes. Just wondering. This is a bounty of riches.
But, okay, I do have one last question on the topic, and this really is the last-- in the brief moment I was using footnotes, I came to love the background color, which I set to yellow. Would love to be able to set a background color for inline annotations. Are there any plans for that?
Yes, there are plans for setting up annotations to use black text on a background, so the annotation colour would be used to shade or highlight behind the text, like footnotes do.
Maybe it is a perfect world. 8)