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Could we please have an input string in Prefs that would allow us to change (or eliminate) -No Synopsis- for items that have no synopsis data?
I personally would prefer a blank synopsis, which more closely resembles an index card.
Another writer I know was looking at Scrivener, and thought -No Synopsis- meant that the card was locked, and no synopsis was allowed. I’m just saying.
Thanks as always for considering it.
This has come up before; but ages ago. Obviously, Keith decided to keep it the way it was back then. I remember the thread, but cannot find it either.
Of course, periodically you can do a project search and replace for “- No Synopsis -” and replace with “”, to wipe all of the empty cards clean.
popcornflix wrote:
When I was a kid, there was a corner variety store in my neighborhood in
NYC that sold everything (Walmart had nothing on this place). It had a big
two-paned window in front, with a vertical seam dividing the two plates of
glass. The window had a number of things painted on it, the name of the
store, sodas, ice cream, greeting cards, that sort of thing.
As I remember it, the most prominent message, right in the middle, all
caps, divided by the seam, the words slightly arced, read “NO VELTIES”.
As a little kid, I wondered why they advertised what they didn’t sell.
Best,
Tim
lol
Yeah, but I hate extra work to overcome a design flaw.
Especially a peculiar design flaw.
I can’t think of another program that insists on adding data to an empty document to indicate that the document is empty.
KB loves Three By Five – it did fine with empty cards!
sigh 
I love the manuals and legal docs that now say
“This page intentionally left blank”
Reminds me of the lovely speech mannerism that folks from Newfoundland
have. They’ll say, “I looked for me boots behind the door, and there they were,
gone.”
Best,
Tim
And By the way, that’s Newfoundland as in Newfoundland, understand.
Reminds me of the lovely speech mannerism that folks from Newfoundland
have. They’ll say, “I looked for me boots behind the door, and there they were,
gone.”
Best,
Tim
And By the way, that’s Newfoundland as in Newfoundland, understand.
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Sharp cuttin’ there, by.
I agree that having the option to suppress the ‘- No Synopsis -’ on new documents and folders would be nice. I find my self killing them manually all the time because I don’t like seeing them. Their not hurting anything, of course–must be ab aesthetic thing.
Independently of whether suppression becomes an option, it would be a good help if Scriv would do a select-all on opening the index card field if it just contained the dummy text (aka ‘- No Synopsis -’).
There aare two places where something like this happens already (if you tab from the title to the body of a corkboard index card or outline line item). It would be nice to have this same functionality in the Inspector, and if it could be extended to the case of just clicking into the body field as well.
Yeah, if anything were changed, it would be nice if it were a preference of some sort – or something. I actually have come to find the boiler text useful because you can search for “- No Synopsis -” and get everything that needs to be documented. You wouldn’t be able to search for something that does not exist; at least not with the way searches are currently implemented. The new status icons make finding empty synopsis easier, but that requires a focused look at the Binder, whereas a search can discover things that might otherwise be forgotten or hidden.
I have to join in with my own problem with -No Synopsis-, which is that one can search and replace to eliminate the words, but it does not eliminate the paragraph marker.
I have been making lots of little files, viewing and editing them with Edit Scrivenings, moving them around in the Binder, and then Merging them when I have a complete chapter. It doesn’t lose the synopses, it combines them, which is great, but then I have 18 -No Synopsis- entries stacked in the synopsis section. After Search & Replace, I have a BIG space.
So either way, it’s manual deletion.
Now I can be a Pollyanna about this and mention how it makes my big blue target section in the Outliner look really huge, as though this one is a heckuva chapter, but I’m not that desperate.
I’m not complaining, at all, she said with a big grin. It’s just a little glitch that comes up when I’m using Scrivener as designed.