Opening Bookmarks in Quick Reference Window

Hello,

I’d like to suggest adding the possibility to open a bookmark in a quick reference window.

Here is my scenario: I am using the dual navigation layout and I need to check a character sheet. The inspector is fine, and I know I can widen it, but I wish I could right-click on the bookmark and get the open in quick reference or even copyholder options, as it happens in the binder.

I also noticed that if I select another file, whether via binder or in scrivening mode, the opened project bookmark text disappears.

Pressing the Spacebar on the selected bookmark should already be working. That’s a good one to try in most contexts where binder items can be selected, incidentally.

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I tried that, but it doesn’t work on individual character sheets. It opens the special folder Characters. A workaround could be to bookmark each character file separately.

Sadly, not in Windows. Works on Binder selection(s) though.

Oh, right, that’s an important ingredient to know of as that works differently from actual bookmark entries. When you add a folder as a bookmark, and then access its child items via the little arrow button, you’re opening a menu at that point. There is no way to have a contextual menu for menu items, and those aren’t technically bookmarks of anything. This is more a convenience feature rather than a way of organising or nesting bookmarks.

I also noticed that if I select another file, whether via binder or in scrivening mode , the opened project bookmark text disappears.

That on the other hand, now that I know what to look at, does look like a small bug in the Mac version. Project Bookmarks themselves are persistent, but again you aren’t actually loading a bookmark, so this persistence trips over itself and reloads the “Characters” folder which is, it sounds, empty of any text of its own.

Yes, which is why I left it in the Mac section of the forum as it would otherwise be a good general tip for everyone. On Windows you can hit the menu key (if you have one) and then ‘Q’ to trigger the Quick Reference command from the contextual menu.

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