Sorry for such a basic question!
In the Binder, I should be able to click Edit, then hold down the three bars next to the document name, then drag the document into an existing folder–right?
All that happens is that the document and folder switch places as if they were any other two documents.
How do I get a document into a folder in the same pane…?
Down below the list of documents, there’s an icon with an arrow and a folder. That lets you specify a destination folder for the selected document(s).
So - I’ve been trying to figure out how to do joust about anything in the ios version (it is really terrible, and I am not just a frustrated newbie).
Just something simple as I have a note - that is in the Drafts binder - and also a Notebook (called “Chapter 1”) - I just want to move the darn note into proper notebook. Not only is it not drag and drop - it appears to be impossible. And yeah,m I’ve spent an hour or two watching the videos and reading documents. Sorry to appear so disgruntled - but I never thought I would encounter a product that would make Evernote look well designed.
Yeah, I’m sure the mac and windows users are very happy and productive with their Scrivener versions (it was their endorsements that compelled me to buy the app) - but the ios version does not at all live up to any of the promise. I am still searching for some examples of how the ios version is this writers dream tool (still hoping). If could post screenshots here I would demonstrate how hard this seems to be to use (or maybe just extremely counter-intuitive).
I’m hoping some enlightened recent convert to Scrivener-ios can chime in to tell me where I’m seeing this wrong. For now, going back to evernote. sigh. I tried.
Tap the Edit button above the Binder.
Select the item you want to move and either drag and drop or use the icons along the bottom.
See the Working with Documents section in the iOS Scrivener Tutorial for more information.
Note will skip over the notebook when i try to move it.
Use the Move to Folder icon (arrow pointing into a folder) at the bottom.
That pops up choices for photo library, camera, web page .,.
Nothing that moves the note into the folder.
I see the confusion … I used the term “folder” - when I meant “notebook”
I have a NOTE and I cannot drag it (or otherwise move it) into a NOTEBOOK.
You’re looking at the wrong icon. Probably you didn’t tap the Edit button first. See attached screenshot.
“Notebook” is not a meaningful term in Scrivener. Is this “Notebook” a project? A folder? A document?
I’ll check your trust settings to allow you to post a screenshot. That would probably help.
If notebook is not meaningful in Scrivener … then WHY-the BLEEP-does it exist?!
See my screenshots about trying to move a note into a Notebook.
WHY (or how) can I easily create different Notebooks, folders, or whatever you want to call them - to consolidate each chapter … for instance …
so I can organize by chapter …
(see all the sections and writing for each chapter … perhaps
expanding and collapsing the notes for each chapter???
Oh -I can’t seem to attach my screenshots.
Tap the Edit button at the top, next to “BrainTrust.”
The Working with Documents section of the iOS Scrivener Tutorial project reads as follows:
You can create new folders and text documents using the icons at the bottom of the binder. You can also import documents from Dropbox or iCloud using the import icon (note that when you are viewing a folder inside the Draft folder, you will be restricted to importing only text documents—Word, RTF, Final Draft and plain text files are supported for import).
The “share” icon below the binder brings up the Compile options—we’ll cover Compile later.
More options are available by swiping left in a row (including the option to export individual documents).
You can tap Edit above the binder to enter editing mode. In editing mode, you can drag and drop to rearrange documents, and the icons below the binder change to present different options. The buttons available in editing mode allow you to move documents to a different folder, duplicate documents, merge documents and move them to the Trash. There’s also a “move mode” button (a cross with arrows) that changes the icons in the toolbar to buttons that allow you to move selected documents up and down, and to indent and dedent them in the outline.
(Feel free to try any of this out in this tutorial project—remember that you can always reset the tutorial from the Getting Help screen if you lose anything.)
That covers almost everything you need to know about using the binder, but let’s look at one more very important feature. In the binder, navigate back to the folder entitled “The Main Interface”. You’re going to look at “The Editor” next. You’ll notice that, like “The Binder”, “The Editor” is a text document with subdocuments and so has a chevron in a circle next to it that allows you to drill down. However, you don’t have to drill down—there’s another way.
Swipe left in “The Editor” row. Because it has subdocuments, you’ll see a purple “Expand” button. Tap on it. See what happened? All of the subdocuments of “The Editor” were revealed indented right below their parent. You can do this for any document or folder that has subdocuments, and you can reveal as many levels as you want. If you swipe the row again, the purple button will be entitled “Collapse”, allowing you to tuck the subdocuments away once more. (Note that when a folder is expanded, it will no longer show the corkboard or text icon, because while it is expanded, tapping on the row will automatically open the document in the editor, and the drill-down chevron will be replaced by a chevron-in-a-circle button that can be tapped to drill down.)
we’re going in circles now.
When I click the edit button next to Brain Trust, and the “move” icons appear to the right of each note name …
I can drag and move the note around, but I cannot move it INTO Chapter 1 folder.
Hi cjcornell. Let me take a stab at this.
On the screen, if you swipe left on your Chapter 1 folder and tell the iOS version to “collapse” its view, does it hide all those documents shown in your screenshot?
If it does, then those documents are already “children” within that folder.
If any of them are still visible, you can swipe left on that document and select the Move option. Then, you can select that folder in the panel that appears to have that document moved into the folder.
Nope. They are not children of the Chapter 1 notebook.
Are you able to swipe left on one of them and then select Move?
If so, what options are shown in that panel as possible destinations for that document?
Uploading a screenshot of what’s shown there could be helpful.
Again, see my screenshot. The icon you want is the one in the green box.
Merged two similar threads to put the discussion in one place.
