I am a bit of a visual person and usually very interested in my project status: what is done and what not quite. I keep track of things to do for each document in Document Notes and give the documents a document status accordingly.
What I miss in Outline view, where I keep track of the overall project, is
a column with the document notes, so that I have a overview of the work to be done
colour-coding for each document according to status, so that I have a more visual overview of where I am.
Apart from that: thank you very much for Scrivener! As a writer and writing coach, I sort of live in word processors. Scrivener’s magic lights up my working day!
I believe the main problem with that is that Documents Notes are a rich text field, and wouldn’t easily be displayed in a table cell for technical reasons. You should consider using synopsis to list your todo items. I know a lot of people that do that.
You can already do that, with the label. Label colour can be used to tint a variety of interface features. If you prefer to have a very visual status indicator, you might be better off switching these roles. I do that for some projects as well—it really depends on the project for me. Some have more importance upon status, others on some other piece of information. Whatever is most important gets the label slot because it is by far the most visible piece of meta-data (well, except for Title).
I’d also like the option of viewing my document notes in the outliner, though I understand the problem of rich text, Amber. The challenge of combining to-do notes with synopses is that the index cards are a limited visual field, and putting too much info on them makes it a cumbersome process of scrolling through all the details, esp on smaller laptop screens. Also, I like to compile my outliner for print from time to time for big-picture reviews, and a separation between synopsis and document notes would be helpful. Not trying to campaign for something I can’t have here, just being wistful. Thanks for all you do.
I think this is in general something better done with compiling than an interface which works more like a spreadsheet than a text editor (especially if your main complain with using synopses is that the card is too short—that will mean some awkwardly tall cells for notes). It’s easy to make some very nice looking reports using the Formatting pane in the compiler.
