Scrivener has the capability to create a self-link, a Scrivener link to the document we’re editing at the moment. It’s on Copy Special, via the command “Copy Documents as Scrivener Links”.
But…that command is disabled in Document View. The user must flip to Outline View or Corkboard View to obtain a direct Scrivener Link for the document he’s working on, i.e. without having to go through the cascading document menus to find it.
Any rationale for that restriction? Any chance we could remove it, and make a document self-link without leaving the editor?
Have you tried dragging the item from the Binder back into its own editor with the Ctrl-Shift keys held down, like making a shortcut on the desktop (Alt works too)? That works for any item, as well as on itself.
Thanks, Amber. That would still require picking our desired document out of the pack, while the keyboard sequence to recognize it by virtue of its selection for editing is deactivated in what seems its most useful context.
Sure, if it isn’t selected a quick Ctrl-Shift-R will bring it into view and highlight it for easy dragging into the editor window. I’ll check on the command, I have often wanted a way to grab a link to the document I’m working on, and that menu command might be a good way of handling that.