Hi Katiepink 13, and welcome to the forum.
In my opinion, giving me easy ways to rearrange my scenes is an area where Scrivener excels over other writing tools I’ve used.
I’m not a writer who works from an outline, nor do I write my fictional work in chronological order. I bounce around in my project.
I’ll add a scene here with notes about different things I think might occur. Maybe I’ll write out a draft of a scene there, and so on. I leave figuring out if all those scenes fit into the project later.
Since Scrivener handles a lot of documents well, I can write a boatload of scenes in my project and place them all in the Draft/Manuscript root folder of my project without thinking about the narrative flow at first.
Sometimes I just add a new document for each scene that comes to mind and worry about organizing stuff in revision. Other times, I’ll drag-and-drop my new scene into a rough chronological order for the narrative (assuming I think the story will be told chronologically) while I’m writing. It really depends.
Later, I can add some folders to my project so that I can collect a group of scenes into those folders as a chapter. Adding folders for each chapter as I figure out where the rise, fall, and hooks will align gives me a rough structure when I’m ready to start revising and fixing holes.
If I’m not sure that I’ve found the exact flow for my project that I want, I might use Scrivener’s Collections to take my different scenes and group them in different ways. Collections won’t affect the binder order, so I can test out if a batch of scenes makes sense as a chapter.
I can also create multiple collections to test out different arrangements without altering the order of my scenes in my binder until I’m ready to commit them to a specific progression.
In the Scrivener manual, Collections are explained in §10.2. You can access a PDF of the manual from Scrivener’s Help menu.
The Help menu also houses Scrivener’s Interactive Tutorial, which can give you some tips on starting to use collections.
I’d also suggest reviewing some past forum discussions on using collections. This discussion has a general overview of how they can work, as does this one.
Our outreach specialist has also talked about using collections for organizing different scenes based on keyword searches. For example, if he has a keyword for one character’s name and applied that to each document where that character appeared, he can create a collection for that character’s arc and then read through only the scenes where that character appears.
He mentioned that in the webinar he did on Friday, October 20, 2023. Those webinar videos are only up for about 30 days or so, but you might find some of those organizational tips helpful as you consider your options.
Other users may have other ways they prefer to work, and I’m sure you’ll hear from them if they have tips that they’d like to share. You might also do some searching on the forum for “collections” to see other discussions.