I jot these down when I should be writing, like now, hope they might find a way to be helpful:
When I go to highlight and it says, “Arbitrary Colour,” I want it to just pick an arbitrary colour without me needing to do anything else! What you have now is helpful too, but it’s more of a “Custom colour.”
I wish cork-board cards could be set to show long titles. I’m trying out a bunch of longer subtitles (for my book) and I want to be able to see all of them on the cork-board, not just the first line that fits on top. I’ve been copy and pasting to have the card title repeat in the body of the card. But it’d be easier if I could make the cards show a whole long title.
I wish there was an easy way to see in the binder which folder/section I’m in when I can’t see the top level of a big folder. I’ve got some pretty full folders, divided by colour, but I can’t always remember if It’s the “outline” folder colour or the “chapters” one (The content headings look similar). Wish there was some note to the left of the folder contents, in the same colour? Indicating the name of the top folder/section so I don’t get lost. I’m a visual guy, so I get confused when I can’t fit everything on the screen. (Maybe I need a taller laptop?)
When I search for something, it shows what file it’s in, but not where that file is located in the overall project.
Wish you could pull pictures out. I put in a bunch as I took notes for a project and then had to find them all again to use my Scrivener notes to make a Keynote presentation.
You’ll be able to do this in 2.0 - 2.0 will give you access to the colours in the swatch at the bottom of the colour palette (the ones you add yourself) from that menu.
I’m afraid there are no plans for this, as the title area uses a regular text field and is supposed to look like a regular index card.
I don’t know of any way of doing such a thing, or of any other program that does this.
You can use opt-cmd-R (View > Reveal in Binder) to see where a document in the search table is located in the binder.
What I’ve done to help with this is to split my document up. Each of my devided documents has several very full folders, but I don’t get lost as to where I am. I can cmd-tilde to jump between these open documents in Scrivener to switch between them (I split it into three document.)
I don’t know the best way, but I did it with “save as template” to copy the whole thing, then opening a new doc with that template – structure and text included. Then I discarded the parts from each that I didn’t need. This seems to have worked and it seems much more manageable now.
I found this thread while searching if anyone else had requested a breadcrumb trail for the Binder search results.
Wouldn’t a breadcrumb trail showing the folder hierarchy of the selected Binder item solve this?
I was also hoping for a breadcrumb trail in the Binder search results, so I could easily determine where in the Binder an item was located, without having to leave the search results (e.g. without having to ‘Reveal in Binder’). Unless I’ve missed something? Thanks (love Scrivener by the way!).
By breadcrumb trail, do you mean something like the Path Bar in Finder, a thing that reveals a static descending read-out from selected item all the way up to the top level? That’s an interesting idea (especially if it were as useful as Path Finder’s, which allows single-clicks to navigate), but I wonder where such a thing could go without cluttering up the interface. If you mean literal “breadcrumb trail” like a read-out of all the places you clicked on, there isn’t anything visual for that, but the history buttons and keystrokes accomplish this.
Perhaps, instead of taking up static interface, something along the lines of Cmd-Clicking on the project name in the window bar, which reveals the hierarchal position of the file on the disk, would be just as good. Perhaps as an extension of the header bar menu.
Whatever the case, what is the aversion to using Reveal in Binder, by the way? That it disturbs the collapse states? That’s really easy to back out of with a bunch of Left-Arrow taps by the way.
Hi, yes, just like the path bar/navigator in Finder (or Path Finder, which I also use!).
I thought the most logical spot for it would be the Header View - so instead of just the Title, you could show the full path e.g. Draft > Folder > Title.
But I’ve just noticed you CAN see the path in search results by the tooltip when you hover your mouse over a search result - sorry, didn’t notice this before.
I should probably start a new thread for this next suggestion, but the other Binder related suggestion I had was the ability to do a ‘quick search’ of Titles from the Binder, that jumped you down the Binder to the first match, rather than hiding the Binder and just showing the search results (similar to a text search in Safari).
I have over a hundred text items for scenes, that I’ve given a descriptive title, but always find myself scrolling up and down the Binder looking for the one I want. The toolbar search box takes a bit of time - checking that the ‘Title’ option is selected (not really, but enough to interrupt my flow). I would also prefer to see the scene immediately in its Binder hierarchy, not as a search result.
It’s something I envisage as a small search field at the top of the Binder that displays when you CMD+F on the Binder, and it jumps down to the first match as you type. Previous/next arrows would allow you to move to the next/previous match, and a ‘Done’ or ‘x’ would close the search field - as in Safari.
I guess a more integrated solution for how Scrivener search is currently set up, would be that if a Binder item had the focus, and then you CMD+F, the keyboard focus would jump to the toolbar search box, and the ‘Title’ search option would be selected by default. At present, if you CMD+F while the Binder has focus nothing happens. I think that would help greatly.
There’s already a keyboard shortcut for taking you to the search box in the toolbar from anywhere in the app. Also, on Leopard and above you have type-select - that is, if the binder has focus and you start typing, the first document with a title matching what you type will get selected and scrolled to. The caveat is that if the enclosing folder is closed, then it won’t be found - I have experimented with changing it so that folders get opened to find the first-found document, but so far haven’t been happy with the results.
Best,
Keith