Scrivener for Windows ScratchPad is Attached to...?

If I take notes with the Scratchpad, do they stay attached to the project I am in at the time? Is there a way to control this?

Look into the icon in the lower right corner of Scratchpad.

Scratchpad is universal and system wide like themes and some of the custom compile formats. However, any particular note can have the texted appended into a Project’s Document, or imported as a subdocument.