There isn’t something precisely like that, mainly because Scrivener works in many multiple documents rather than one very long PDF. So we not only need a way to return to a spot in the text, but potentially a way to return to prior documents entirely.
For the latter, you have a history feature built into each split that works basically just like your web browser. Hit the back button in the header bar up by the title of the document, and you go back to the prior thing you clicked on. Right-click to jump several documents backward or forward. You may find, in doing that, that Scrivener automatically “marks” where you were in that document by the cursor position, even remembering any text that was selected. Thus you can double-click on a word, go on to something else, and when you come back to that document that word will be right in front of you, still selected. Cmd-[ and Cmd-] also triggers those buttons, just like in a browser.
Now within a single document itself, there are a few ways you can navigate around in your text, which to use will be up to taste:
- Split views. If you’ve heard about them, you’ve probably heard about how they are useful to view entirely different documents, but when you make one you’ll notice the default is to just split the current document into two windows. Now you can scroll around and reference or edit other areas of your document while keeping your return location static in the other split. When you’re done, just click the split button for the “static” side.
- Comments: For quick jaunts, it might be easier to just put a tag down on some text. For something like this you could just leave it with the default name and date text. When you’re ready to return to it, click on the comment in the Inspector sidebar and then hit the delete button to remove it. You can also use inline annotations for this kind of thing, if you prefer using a little typed in text marker that you can later search for to return to and remove.
- Bookmarks Annotations: Shift-Cmd-B will add a little “bookmark” to the current paragraph. Click on the icon in the editor header bar and use the Bookmarks sub-menu to return to it. I don’t recommend depending too heavily upon this feature as it may be removed. Comments have kind of replaced the functionality this feature provides.
- Jump to Selection: this is actually a standard Mac feature, and nothing fancy at all, but quite effective it all you are doing is reading. The premise is that scrolling and PgUp/Down does not move the cursor. Cmd-J scrolls the view back to the cursor without typing anything.
There may be other tricks as well! Scrivener is designed around the premise of giving you generic tools and letting you combine them in useful ways. And let me know if you can’t find something I mentioned above.