My Wish List

[kyliehut]

Hi there,

I’m a new user and love the product.

Here are some wish list items:

• choice to have Status in colour
• one click somewhere on the Interface to go to overall book Outline
• option to turn off Progress bar for Chapters in Outline
• bullets seem wonky, not as smooth as Word, as they didn’t import from Word
• also would like option to use staggered bullets

Thanks!

Kylie

[AmberV]

Thanks! Glad to hear the software is working well for you. I’ll address these in the order you wrote them:

• You can switch these around if you want. Calling them “Label” and “Status” is just a default. In the same place where you can set up labels and status, Project/Meta-Data Settings… you will find a Custom Title text field at the top of the label/status list where you can change the name for that type of list. The software only allows one list type to have a colour as it can be used in a variety of places. See the View/Use Label Color In (actually if you change the name to “Status” that menu command will reflect that change, so it may say “Use Status Color In”).
• I’m not sure what you mean by this, could you explain what this would give you over being able to just click on the Draft folder already?
• The problem with that idea is that folders can have text, and thus can have goals. They aren’t like “normal” folders in Finder, for instance. Note the “Total” columns might be more useful to you, depending on how you use the feature.
• Sometimes lists imported from other word processors do have problems. You can usually fix these by right-clicking where the list should be and selecting the Re-number List command. If that doesn’t work, just try setting the list type to “None” and then back to what you prefer.
• Use Tab and Shift-Tab to control list indent levels, if that is what you meant by staggered.

[kyliehut]

Hi Amber,

Sorry, just seeing your response now. I only work on my book every couple of months.

[*] I’m not sure what you mean by this, could you explain what this would give you over being able to just click on the Draft folder already?

I would like to be able to click somewhere on the interface to access the highest level of my book’s outline and not have to scroll up to the top of the binder. See the attached screenshot. I can’t see how to do this. It’s not critical, just a wish. That’s why it’s called My Wish List.

Thanks,

Kylie

[AmberV]

No worries! One of the advantages of a forum is that a conversation can take years, if necessary. Okay, there are a couple of things that I can think of that could help you out:

• Get used to the Ctrl-Cmd-R shortcut. This navigates the current editor view up one level in the hierarchy, highlighting the section(s) you were previously editing. If you know you are at level two, you can hit this twice rapidly to get to the top.
• For cases where you don’t know how deep you are in the outline or are too deep for incremental navigation to be efficient, the Go To menu is designed for selecting content in the main editors, without having to use the Binder. So this accomplishes what you are asking for, it is just more flexible in that you can go anywhere with it, not just the Draft.

I take it that is your primary concern, you don’t want to have to scroll and abandon your current working area in the Binder (this is also a concern if you make use of Collections and Project Search on a frequent basis). The Go To menu can be most easily accessed by clicking on the icon in the editor header bar. Since Draft is usually near the top (as I see it is in your screenshot) you should be able to get there with minimal effort.x

[gr]

You could also make a key command for jumping (the Editor) up to the top level.

To make this practically useful, you would need to avoid the temptation to rename your Draft folder to different things in different projects – but to leave it as Draft (or something else of your constant choosing).

Then you could just use the Mac’s System Preferences > Keyboard >Keyboard Shortcuts system to make a shortcut for Scrivener : [Draft].

This will attach the key command of your choosing to the contextual menu item that Ioa pointed out.

–Greg

[AmberV]

Yes, if one uses a consistent draft folder name, it is possible to assign a keyboard shortcut, hooking into that aforementioned Go To menu, thus giving you the ability to jump to any specific point you’ve added a shortcut to. The trick is to type in the full menu name, since this particular reproduction of the Binder hierarchy, as menus, appears more than once in the main menu system, and that can confuse the OS X shortcut override. So refer to it as “View->Go To->Draft”, and that should be specific enough.

And in case you need it, here is a reference for setting up [url=http://scrivener.tenderapp.com/help/kb/mac-os-x/assigning-or-changing-keyboard-shortcuts-in-scrivener-for-mac]custom shortcuts on a Mac[/a].