I want to see how others tackle organization so I can better tackle mine. The picture I’ve included is what my Binder currently looks like. I’ve shown you mine, now show me yours!
Do you mean scrivever ‘binder’ or directory structure on computer?
Perhaps it was the inner pervert in me, but the title “Show Me Your Binder!” took me to a sort of BDSM place. So in that case, I’ll pass and you’ll be grateful I did. 
I’m guessing you use Gimp for all your illustrations ?? 
The Scrivener Binder directory structure.
I am quite curious about this, too, but cannot see links to any images that people might have posted.
Am I missing something here?
Maybe Chrome is blocking something, so I will try a few other browsers.
That’s because no one has. 
Thanks for your reply, NamoNakiMichi.
In your first post, you said, “The picture I’ve included is what my Binder currently looks like. I’ve shown you mine, now show me yours!”, but I cannot see the picture you said you posted, nor can I see a link to a picture.
Did you post one?
It was posted prior to the conversion of the forum, so it might’ve gotten eaten.
Thanks, ownebycats.
I was wondering if the forum change over might have had something to do with this.
I am most certainly post an updated picture of my Binder when I get back to my PC. My Binder is pretty intense. The perfect picture of semi-guided chaos. 
I’ve obsfucated all the titles, but here’s the binder I use for my fanfiction projects. I essentially just use label colour to signify section type.
ownedbycats,
Thanks for posting your binder.
I like it.
Here is my current version of my binder, but I am looking for a better way to present it (see my question elsewhere on the forum re. mixing and matching different options under the ‘Use Color in’ menu).
Under ‘Part 1’ I have ‘Scene 1’, ‘Scene 2’ and so on, but by the time I got to the end of writing those scenes I decide that in ‘Part 2’ I would use a descriptive title, and I like that better.
My binder looks very much like @ownedbycats - Acts > Chapters > Scenes. Sometimes I break Scenes > Beats.
For one of the more innovative approaches I’ve seen of leveraging Scrivener’s features, see this post for a description of how @Silverdragon sets up her binder.
A month later, I’ve reorganized somewhat. Also couldn’t resist giving them less boring titles.
“Writing Desk” is drafts. Blue for stories, purple for chapters, pink for scenes.
“Cold Storage” is all finished stuff.
“Editing Table” is where I move stuff while doing heavy revising. Mostly because Writing History stores words written for Draft and Other separately and I’d rather have the negatives show up in Other. Also parts that got cut but too good to just throw away (might come in useful later!) and partly-written scenes I haven’t fit into the outline yet.
“Notes” is… notes. Backdrop Images is for composition mode backgrounds. And Trash got pushed off-screen.
Thank you for posing this question. I am just getting started with planning my first book. I’ve had Scrivener for a few years and recently updated to the Win3 version. The images that others posted are appreciated. Over the last two weeks, I’ve browsed several videos on You Tube where authors demonstrated their story structure in Scrivener 3. I love getting sneak peaks into different structures and set-ups.
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First post on the Scrivener forum. I’m working my way through the tutorial and still getting my sea legs with Scrivener. I set up a Hero’s Journey template, so this is my binder (click on the photo to see it a little more clearly):
Thanks you all for sharing! So fun to see how you organise your projects!
Trying a new approach… with “sort of” structure from Save The Cat Writes a Novel in combination with Dan Wells 7point system.
So… Have all 15 beats from STC… but renamed beats to:
- “0-6” for rough outline with multiple POV
- “*” for other single scene beats,
- “+” for other multi scene beats.
And…
- 6 folders, to track word count. 15 beats for POV for hero in the right order in these folders.
- 1 folder “Unplaced” with beats 0-6 for other POVs. (You can only see one in the screen dump, I have one POV for Love, Hate, Past timeline/Other.) These I drag to the right place in folder 1-6, depending on where they match in the POV for hero. Folder “Unplaced” is empty when plotting is done.
Also have lots of keywords & custom metadata to keep me organized.
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