This is great! I think? I need to start reading the manual more than just the forum.
I’m still learning Scrivener and enjoying it immensely. Although not writing as much as I’d like as I get used to how I want to operate in it. I’d just discovered Labels and Status and struggled with a visual method until I swapped my use of them as you have. I moved toward using Labels as Status so I could see the visual progress in the binder, but I didn’t know I could “relabel” them as Status as well. That makes my cognitive dissonance diminish. In the Label/“Status” list I have No Label, Next, In-work, Waiting, Done, Planning, Reference with color coding. So my plan is to have a strict use of “In-work” to be the green ones I really need to work on currently and if I think of what should be ready to go “next” then that color will get flagged. This is sort of the traditional “kanban” style of course. The colors are pretty adamant about where I should focus.
Then in Status (now “Stage”) I have 1-1st Draft, 2-1st Review, 3-2nd Draft etc. So the Status/“Stage” keeps hold of what the specific Stage is in the writing and the numerical counting keeps the chronological sense visible. So when I finish the 1st draft then it should go into my review, the Status will go to “Waiting” and the Stage to “2-1st Review”. I’ve only started using it recently so not sure how all of this will work out though.
However now I see you’ve rolled them all together into a spectrum-based status. That’s neat but not sure if I’d be able to tell immediately one shade from another very well with all the graduations, but you must have gotten used to it. So what do you use the Status List for now?
And now there are emoji’s with another way to work too?
No. It’s hard. I can’t, often.
Except that I am not trying, because it doesn’t matter.
Whether it is at level 2 or 3 or 4, I don’t care.
What it shows me is what parts of my draft are behind. (The lighter colored documents.)
You can’t tell if a document is stage 2 or 3, or if it is at the same stage than another document when they are at a distance, but it is obvious which is ahead (darker) when two documents are next to each other.
So it is to be considered at the clumps level.
That image shows it well :
It works very well for me.
The lighter the color, the less I’ve worked on that or those documents.
It shows me the overall progress of the current draft – 1st draft, 2nd, 3rd and final draft –, and it tells me where I should focus.
