Linking Scrivener Views [or how to tag or annotate the binder outline]

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I thought I had posted this prior, but I apologize but I cannot find the post, so:

Is there a way to link views, so that what I have in Outline view can be, say, linked internally to a location in my Document view?

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Have you reviewed the Tutorial, available from the Help menu?

I’m asking because the views are already linked. The Editor, Outline, and Corkboard Views are just different ways to view the same files. Every item you see in the Outline has an associated document and synopsis (both of which may be blank).

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That part I get. But is there a way, fin instance, to have an item in the Outline, for instance, linked to a specific spot in the editor, so that I click it and it goes right to that spot in what may well be a very long document?

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If you are looking for internal links, no you can’t. Search this forum for several reasons why that is.

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This is not a meaningful question.

If you have a complex hierarchy in the Outline View, you have by definition broken your “very long document” into pieces based on that hierarchy. That’s what the Outline View does. Clicking on an item in the Outline will go to the corresponding (sub)document.

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I understand that part. I was/am looking for ways to find specific mention(s) of words or items that could then be linked in the outline, but according to [AntoniDol], that isn’t possible.

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Stepping away from the Outline function specifically, what are you trying to accomplish?

For instance, keywords can be used to tag sections relevant to specific objects or people. Comments and annotations can be used to highlight individual paragraphs for whatever reason. And, as I said, you can break documents into pieces to get whatever level of granularity you want in the outline.

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Tags! THAT’S what I should use! Thanks so much!

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And, once you’ve assigned keywords, you can show them in the Outline View. (View → Outliner Options)

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Comments can select keywords, phrases, characters, foreshadowing etc. In a 1200 word document you can quickly scroll to highlighted comments, or look at the inspector comment window and clicking a comment takes you to exact point in the text. So anything you note with a comment can quickly be found and these can be excluded when compiling if you want.

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