I have been doing research on my characters and copying interesting ip addresses to the Notes sidebar of Scrivener. It seems to be working in that the copied address shown in the Notes area accurately reflects the IP address I copied, and for a while it was working. I could click on one of the IP addresses and it would instantly pop me to that page. However, I suddenly discoverd that all of the IP addresses now resolve to one single address that is in the list. The textual information remains correct (it looks like the correct IP address), but it resolves to something else. Why is this happening, and what can I do to correct it?
Do these pages not have public URLs you can map to instead? IP addresses aren’t always going to be static, that’s something the page owner has to pay extra for, so some sites will be on a rotation of numbers.
Otherwise, if you mean the individual numbers should still work, but it’s the link itself that is wrong (which you can check by right-clicking and editing it), maybe at some point the hyperlink formatting itself got merged somehow. That would be evident if when you do right-click, the whole sequence highlights.
Hi Amber, and thanks for taking the time to respond. I believe I misstated my predicament. It is actually the public URLs that I am having a problem with. It seemed to be working fine, and then it was not. Allow me to illustrate the problem:
If I searched for information on George W. Walker and copied this URL to Notes:
“George W. Walker - Wikipedia” it copied fine. Then I researched a number of other topics, for example - “George W. Walker Biography” and also copied and pasted those URLs to Notes. After I had copied and pasted six or seven of these, I went back and looked at some of the information, which worked fine. The following day I moved on to another Character I was building, but when I came back to access the URLs stored in the Notes section of the previous character, the proper text was there but when I hovered over it, it actually resolved to the original Wiki URL, as did all seven other entries. The URL text was fine, but they all now point to the original Wiki URL. I copied the text out of notes and pasted it in the search engine for each of the seven entries, each of which took me to the desired site. If I then re-copy the URL and paste it to Notes it works and resolves to the correct URL. However, I no longer trust using the Notes section in this manner unless I can figure out the problem.
I am new to Scrivener, and so far love it for the novel I am writing.
All right, as a bug then, I think to best see this myself and get it written up, I’d need to know better exactly how things got this way, which would include how they are copied and pasted.
Example checklist...
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I create a new entry in the binder and open Notes in the inspector.
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In the browser, I load a forum page with a list of links.
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On the first I right-click and select “Copy Link Address”, which copies the raw URL.
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In Notes, I type “First line.”, select it, use
Edit â–¸ Add Link..., and paste the URL into the dialogue, saving it. -
I repeat the last two steps a couple of time, each time adding a new line in the notes field.
So the result is three links on three lines, the links each extending from the beginning to the end of the line.
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I reload the project to simulate it being the following day.
By the way, are you familiar with the Bookmarks tab, the one to the right of Notes? If you open that tab, and then click the dropdown at the top to switch to “Document Bookmarks” (if necessary), you can add lists of links here, and even load the page into a preview below the list. These also can be used to link between different binder items too, or files on the disk.
The only reason I’d use Notes for jotting down research links is if I really needed to annotate them beyond giving them a title in the Bookmark list. There should be no problem with doing that, to be very clear, something very wrong happened with your notes, but I just mean it’s a lot more handy to have dedicated bookmarks, kind of like in a browser, rather than having to manage hyperlink formatting and all that.
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