For those of us writing non-fiction books that are heavily researched, it would be wonderful to have a mechanism for “running notes.”
Running notes are endnotes that do not use superscript numbers, but rather snippets of the text. This would be a rather ambitious add to the program, but it doesn’t seem that any program currently available (if anyone knows of one, please let me know) can generate and update running notes. (For example, if you change the main text, the note snippet of text would also be updated).
Actually, running notes are on the list of possibilities for 3.0 already - as you note, they would be tough to add, mainly because of the different formatting possibilities involved, but it is on the list for serious consideration, time permitting.
Dear Keith,
I’ve thought of an easy way to add “running notes”, which I think would be a significant addition to Scrivener.
This would enable authors to export a “Notes” section in the style of John Adams by David McCullough automatically.
Basically, “running notes” would generate a two column document – the first column would be the gray text that the note is attached to, the second column would just be the note itself. That’s really it.
There should also be a way to toggle “hide” the notes for clarity of use, because using this citation style, often every sentence will include a note.