Is there a way to assign the Research folder the status of a normal folder or at least keep it as a special folder that can be assigned text and links.
I use internal and external links extensively and would find it useful.
Right now, with it dragged to Project Bookmarks, I’m required to select a topic document from the dropdown arrow to achieve my goal, and would find linking faster, especially when selecting while in the moment during a writing session.
Hmm…
Perhaps I misunderstand, but any and all folders or parent files, if added as a bookmark, will show their sub-files/content in that fashion – an arrow to the right.
Can’t you just add the research folder’s file of interested as a bookmark instead?
(I don’t get where linking comes in play in this. It seems unrelated to me.)
My Characters, Character Arcs, Plot Elements, Resources, Narratives, Notes and (Location) Settings, all reside in a separate series project, with links to specific documents. Of all the folders, because Research has special characteristics it was deemed necessary, I suppose–I don’t know, to not make it editable, leaving it as a placeholder type container of documents and folders.
So, when writing, whatever the size of the eventual book, what’s the use of having a folder within a folder when your 20 or so references can all be linked from one folder.
Sure, I can create that one folder within Research, but then I’m pedantic enough to ask “why?” not use Research for this purpose and to be troubled that it’s there and that the “Research” folder I’d drag to Project Bookmarks is note the Research folder.
Here’s a typical example of how it’s setup now.
Whereas Characters is a one-time click interaction.
Is what you are saying that you wish the research folder could have content of its own. Like editor content and all ?
Yes, a fully editable Research folder. Keep its special status where it cannot be deleted. That’s no bother.
Technically, Drafts, Research, and Trash are the only normal folders—actual folders, that can hold files of various kinds (Drafts limited to text documents) but have no own text section. All other folders exist to structure the draft but are not that different to files, if at all (and because of that they can easily be converted to files and vice versa), meaning they can have their own content.
That aside, when I get you correct you have folders like “Military” in Research. Why don’t you put “Military” and its siblings directly into the project bookmarks? The list of project bookmarks would get longer, of course, but the divider between the bookmarks and their content below is flexible (at least in the Mac version).
I could put a topic directly into Project Bookmarks, but then it would be too much once the project grows. The philosophy of Scrivener is, well logic says add it to the Document Bookmarks where it applies. Personally, I have a gripe about Document Bookmarks being a Ctrl-6 away instead of a neighbouring tab—and I know about the drop-down option, but it’s not the same quick experience. I don’t expect anyone will change it, so I suck it up and live with it.
Otherwise, I’m familiar with the special nature of the folders you mentioned, aimed at protecting users who might inadvertently cause wholesale destruction of great chunks of their creation. I recognise and appreciate the forethought that went into avoiding such.
At the end of the day, I was simply asking, whether it’s possible to adjust the Research folder’s functionality, which it seems it’s not.
Cool bananas.
Why Not a link file Where you drag for example links to all your character files, locations files or both and one file with links allows you to click one hub document with links to a slew of others and keep in Project Bookmarks for quick reference. like below (this is a small piece of this one document)
I link to things in a series project.
What I have been asking about is the Research folder to have the functionality of other folders where it’s editable and may contain text and links.
Somehow this doesn’t appear possible, probably because making it editable might also compromise its ability not to be deleted, though that’s only a supposition and may be completely unfounded.
Note that you can create additional top level folders. So you could ignore the Research folder completely in favor of its sibling, the “MyImportantStuff” folder.
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I’m aware of that. Thanks.