I often use Scrivener to write assignments that have multiple parts or to organize multiple things I need to write. It’s very helpful to be able to track which ones I’ve done and which I haven’t. The best place to organize these documents is the binder, but I can’t see any statuses I’ve assigned in the binder. As a workaround, I’ve edited the project’s label list to “to do,” “editing,” “done,” etc., and changed the labels of projects so I can look in the binder to see how I’m doing. However, it would be great if I could do this with status rather than labels. (Maybe status could appear as a little colored bar, like labels do in the corkboard. Or maybe, if a document is marked as completed, the text could get grayed back or crossed out.)
A) I use Labels for that just as you have come to (and have the binder icon tinting turned on). Thing is that Labels do everything you want, so why worry about the Status function at all? (If it is the names ‘Status’ and ‘Label’ that are throwing you, you can actually rename these in the Project Settings!)
B) In terms of seeing what you want, you can see statuses in the outliner view (which is like the binder on steroids) as well as corkboard.
That’s my two cents from a fellow user. I don’t actually use Status for anything.
Keywords are also an option. They’re especially good for tracking things (people, objects, locations…) because an item can have more than one of them. You can show them in the Corkboard or Outliner, but not the Binder.
Has this ever been implemented? I’d like to display status in the Binder; labels are used for something else (displaying what POV the scene is in). I don’t normally use outline mode.
No, and it likely never will be. There is no intention of turning the binder into the Outliner feature, bit by bit (this is only one of the many things we’ve had requested ported over to it), because we already have the outliner feature. Here is a post with some tips on how to make that work. In some projects, I close the binder and use the outliner instead! This is even more viable these days, with copyholders making it possible to load up to four things at once.
This is a very functional way to achieve it, in my opinion.
I already mark documents I want to print and rework longhand this way. Using, quite simply as a prefix to the title. (You can use the document icon, but if you want more than one, emojis work in the title itself. There is a ton of emojis available for copy/paste on the web.)
It works fine.
As long as you don’t turn your binder into a Christmas tree, where there is so much of everything everywhere that you can’t make sense of it anymore.
By the way, emojis, if inserted as prefix to some documents’ title, are searchable, and provide an extra mean of filtering things out. (A little incidental plus.)
→ You can set replacements in your compile format to have them automatically removed at compile if you don’t want them in there. (Just have the compile format replace them with nothing.)
I use color variations of simple geometric images as png file icons. the various colors of squares, triangles, circles etc show up well in the binder and give you along with labels two visual ways to check on the status/progress in a file. you can use red, yellow, green squares for example to guage editing progress. here are examples of some png icons I use.
as a prefix to the title. (You can use the document icon, but if you want more than one, emojis work in the title itself. There is a ton of emojis available for copy/paste on the web.)
