The program Newnovelist has an inprogram internet search function, whereby you don’t have to keep switching between programs and windows all the time. It would be a great feature of Scrivener to have that as an optional window in the program, rather than having to go outwith the program to search for synonyms, meaning etc.
I don’t know if it would be a copyright theft or intellectual property theft to include the same function as is in Newnovelist, but it’s one of the features that I’m interested in, so might buy Newnovelist and use that instead. It’s a lazy feat, but very useful considering the automatic closing of windows each time I want to do an internet search and having to open the Scrivener window again to continue writing.
You should never have to close Scrivener in order to open a Web browser, and then close that to return to Scrivener. With modern computers (i.e. anything within the past couple of decades) you can switch between programs, usually extremely efficiently using advanced and basic window management features—the simplest of which is Cmd-Alt/Tab. For myself, I keep Scrivener on the left side of my screen for the most part, and auxiliary programs like browser on the right. They are both right there in front of me—but even when I can’t do that, it’s so easy to switch between program windows that I don’t really understand the issue here.
Thanks for your message. I should have been more clear in my post. When I said close, I meant that the window open shifted between Google Chrome and Scrivener, but that issue wouldn’t be an issue if I had both windows open side by side like you said. Occam’s Razor.
I must disagree here with the great Amber. An inline web research capability is quite nice, and Scrivener can cheerfully provide it alongside the writing pane. Just load the following code in Notepad, save the file with an HTML extension, drag it into the binder, and make it a Favorite.