I want to have several lists of metadata. Can I color code list items? Or apply label colors to list items?
Only textual Custom Metadata can be colored. Checkboxes will be mostly gray.
When creating a list there is no colour box. So, no.
Label colours apply at Binder item level.
You haven’t qualified why you wish for such features, which carries no weight to have your request considered.
While I agree with @Kevitec57 that more information as to why you want this would help, it strikes me that for a limited range of colours you could set one of the revision modes before you start typing the list entry, and switch to “None” or one of the others when you’ve typed it.
Mark
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I’m using Scrivener to develop a Materia Medica, which is made up of herbal monographs. I would like to quickly and easily identify herbs that meet specific criteria, such as energetics, tastes, herbal actions, etc. I decided to use keywords for herbal actions, since there are so many. I’ll have to use lists for the rest, but being able to color code the list items the way I can labels would be helpful.
I also intend to use Srivener to maintain documents for gardening. Here, I need to keep track of soil pH, sun/shade and moisture requirements, information on seed starting indoors and in the ground such as soil and air temp, harvesting information, companion and intercropping and more. I plan on one document per plant. Though i might want to have a folder per plant and separate documents for different types of information. The easier it is to identify the plant documents I need, the better. I’m very visual, and color coding would help.
You could put coloured emoji into the list text; your colour choices are more limited than on a full palette, but it might be enough for indicating a major category that the text can then make more specific?
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Latching on to @MimeticMouton’s advice above you may get a wider palette using this idea from @AmberV:
It would involve a lot of manual tweaking, though.
Open the whole insertion in my previous post by clicking on it’s header. The answer is towards the end, which would come after the ellipses shown above.
Actually, this approach would be way more powerful than color-coded lists. Using Section types, Labels, and Keywords for each type of information.
Granularity galore!
Or try custom icons for specific herbs. You could use geometric shapes for related herbs and use colors for sub varieties