Hi, I’ve been working on a long novel on and off for close to 14 years! I don’t think I’m quite a beginner with Scrivener for Mac, but I do seem to be spending a lot of time fighting with the system. Specifically seeing the layout I want in the corkboard/outline. This problem is so specific to my binder, and giant amount of material, I just can’t see being able to figure it out with passive tools. Not so far anyway. I’m too impatient and have reached the end of any natural facility with software that I had or once had.
I hope I haven’t broken any rules by posting this. Thanks. A.
Set up your corkboard and/or outline the way you want it and use “Manage Layouts” to save it with a suitable name, to which you can the make a shortcut in the System Settings/Preferences > Keyboard if you wish to give yourself easy access.
If part of the problem is that your binder is so big that getting to the part you’re concerned with at any particular moment is difficult, check out hoisting/unhoisting folders etc.
Thanks, that could work. I know what I want as far as panes & inspector, but every time I think I almost have it set up, locked & loaded, it changes! I do use collections, but if they’re operating by different rules, I don’t know it.
You might have a look at the “Binder Selections Affects” and “Outliner Selection Affects” settings, which will determine where newly selected documents open. They’re on the Navigate menu.
I’m not the best person to help you with this, as only once in my 17+ years of using Scrivener have I had recourse to the corkboard (for one of the NiaD’s I took part in, so minimal use!), and I’ve never needed the outliner.
However, in what way does the “panes & inspector” set up change? As for collections, I believe they are non-hierarchical in contrast to the Binder, so I would expect Corkboard and Outliner to look different if a collection is loaded rather than (a section of) the Binder.
