Hi! I’m just getting back into using Scrivener after a break of no writing (gasp!), this time with a nice new laptop. It’s allowed me to fall in love with Scrivener all over again! My workflow this time around has involved a lot more use of keyboard shortcuts, and there were a few things I found really unintuitive and would love to see improved, or given further options for customization.
-
When in the binder or outliner view, there seem to be two ways to create a new file: Ctrl+N or Enter. However, there does not seem to be an easy way to change the title of a file. Any permutation of Tab/Ctrl/Shift/Alt + Enter (which seems to me like it should work) just creates a new file, as if it were plain Enter. You can press Tab to edit the title, but this switches your focus from the binder to the notecard in the inspector; after you’re done you have to cycle through using Ctrl+Tab to get back to the binder. (Also, I can’t get this to work at all in the outliner.) It seems like there should be a way to do this quickly (via kb shortcuts) without being diverted from the view you’re already in (binder, outliner, etc).
-
There are no dedicated shortcuts to switch your focus to the editor/binder/etc; the only option is to cycle through using Ctrl+Tab until you hit the one you want. It would be great if there was a way of shortcutting to switch focus to the binder, inspector, etc. as needed!
-
Speaking of that, I can’t find any way to switch focus to the Document Notes field using only kb shortcuts. Does one exist?
-
In general, I really wish there was an ability to create a kb shortcut for the “Convert Formatting to Default Text Style” option. (Even more wishy: I wish there was a way to universally apply this option onto every file in a project! Instead, if I want to change to a different one of my preset editor styles I have to apply the change to each file individually. This is annoying with projects I’ve already started, which already have multiple files inside them.)
-
I tend to write in “web mode” all the time–I always have double-enters between my paragraphs. This doesn’t work when I want to compile into a manuscript view, obviously, since the compiler doesn’t realize those breaks are just for me. Is there a way to input such a thing as “EnterEnter --> Enter” into the compiler’s replacement feature? I’ve done a lot of searching for how this might work and it seems there’s a way to do it for Mac, but not Windows. For now I’m using a workaround with the document spacing as I type in the editor so that it looks like there are double enters between paragraphs, but as there are plenty of things I write that I want to retain double-spacing, it seems to me there should be a way to specify this individually for each relevant compile. That way my writing flow can stay the same for every project, and it’s only the compiling and typesetting part that I have to fiddle around with for the output.
