Is there any plan to restore to Scrivener 3 the same functionality as Scrivener 1's Project notes function

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And for keyboardists:

  1. Double-tap the ❖+Alt+N / ⌃⌥⌘N shortcut to open and focus the Bookmarks inspector list. (Once it is open and visible, you only need to use the shortcut once.)
  2. If necessary, hit Ctrl+6 / ⌘7 to flip from Document to Project Bookmarks.
  3. Arrow to what you want or type in a first letter or two, and hit Enter to invoke the default double-click action.
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I used the project notes panel constantly, and then it was removed. There is now no way to keep track of the whole project as you go along in different documents/chapters. it’s a real pain, now, as I have to scroll back and forth to various project notes documents I’ve created along the way, and this has adversely affected my workflow. Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring back the project notes feature?

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Have you read the section in the manual about the Project Bookmarks feature?

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This thread probably has every bit of information you might think to look up, as well as alternatives and so forth. Notably, this post has a list of references to documentation and communications on where project notes went. It didn’t really get removed, it just got changed, in large part to satisfy the many feature requests over the years to make it better. Just to list a few:

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I have no idea what Project Notes looked like in Scrivener 1. But what you’re looking for appears to be possible in Scrivener 3.

  1. Create a document called Project Notes.
  2. Populate and update the content as you move through your project.
  3. Drag the document to Project Bookmarks. It will be a click away in the Inspector | Bookmarks view no matter where you are with your project with an editable preview in the pane below Bookmarks. Alternatively, you could open it as a Quick Reference Panel or a copyholder or side-by-side editor, as you prefer. There are other options that require more clicking around that I’d typically avoid.
    Here’s the basic look, a Bookmark is a link to the document or folder in the Binder.

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It looked a bit like the Bookmarks tab, but instead of having a re-sizeable list of notes at the top, all of the notes were in the dropdown. It also had a window, similar to what you get as described in this post. Only instead of a sidebar—that can also hold useful resources like PDFs, web URLs and links to items in other projects—it was a tabbed view, which meant you were largely limited by how many tabs could be reasonably fitted into the window (hence the feature request above for a better UI).

Otherwise, they were completely impossible to export or compile in any fashion, none of the text within them could be searched for by any tool, and they could only be accessed by either the inspector tab or the window. A modern note, on the other hand, has all of the potential and powers that any other binder item has, because that’s what it is.

Or in other words: no, the old, extremely limited feature isn’t ever coming back. :slight_smile:

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Thanks so much, that works very well. What a relief. Appreciate your help.

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