I find this a bit baffling.
In the Outliner, one would expect that creating a layout format and clicking ‘Use’ would get Scrivener to say, “Oh! This is the layout format you’d like to use, isn’t it? I’ll keep it just this way until you decide to change it again, then!”
It doesn’t.
I’m dealing with four manuscripts: three volumes of a trilogy and a fourth novel, and I tinker constantly with all of them in revision phase.
I’ve settled on one layout format for all four, though I do use a second layout format for all four if I need to export a csv doc.
I’ve attempted to save that same main layout format in each of those four novels. But maybe clicking ‘Use’ is not how to save it. It doesn’t seem to.
When I go to the Outliner, it often reverts to versions of layouts I really don’t use anymore. Why would we suppose this happens? Isn’t ‘Use’ the act of saving a layout as the one I wish to ‘Use’?
Maybe I should just delete all other older layouts I no longer use. But I’m a hoarder—never throw anything away I might change my mind about using.
All comments are welcome. Thx.