More than one label per scene?

Scrivener Wish List
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I’ve developed my own color coding scheme for chapters and scenes that I use to organize my writing, and I was wondering if someone has ever mentioned expanding the labeling feature to include multiple labels in the inspector per segment.

For instance, I have a chapter that I am working on that is split up into scenes. The scene I am referring to is part of the ‘Unfinished Chapter’ designation as well as ‘Needs Research/Verification’ designation. I do this so I can look at the corkboard at a glance and find places in the manuscript that needs a given type of work, whether it’s an incomplete scene, a scene that has markings for research, etc. Currently, I have to choose one when the scene falls under multiple categories.

I looked but didn’t see anything as to whether this functionality exists or if it might be added in a future release. (or if I am just using the tool incorrectly and there’s a better way to do this)

Thanks in advance for clearing this up for me.

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Never mind. I was able to locate a previous discussion on this and your answer in that thread cleared it up for me.

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I’m not sure which thread you found, but in version 2.0 - out in October - keywords have colours associated with them, too, and these colours can be set to appear as chips along the side of a card on the corkboard. So you could use keywords to assign more than one colour label per card.
All the best,
Keith

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Sounds terrific! I can’t wait to try it out.

It’s helped me to think of using keywords as tagging, because this is essentially what you are doing. You are tagging a scene with certain words that will show up in searches you assign. I tag scenes were a particular character is speaking so that I can go back and find all of those scenes so that I can check for continuity in the dialog for a given character. With things like Unfinished Chapter or Needs Research/Verification I typically place a ‘$’ symbol in front so that those keywords sort to the top in the keywords panel, because I use those most frequently.

I’m really beginning to get the most out of keywords now that I understand more about it.

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Yes - in fact an earlier version of Scrivener called keywords “Tags”. I only changed it to “Keywords” because that seems to be the lingo used across most Mac apps, in iPhoto and Aperture and so on, but tagging is exactly what keywords are for. Glad you’re starting to get more out of them!
All the best,
Keith