If you use Ctrl+K (or Ctrl+Shift+K) to Split a document that is in script mode, then the resulting documents should also be in script mode.
The option to copy metadata when splitting documents (imho this should happen by default).
Snapshots
Should remember notes, synopsis, title and metadata. Title could be the default text for the snapshot’s title.
Misc
Right click menu to include a ‘Go To’ command.
To be able to set a keyboard shortcut for View/Layout/Swap editors
Another option on Format/Convert: to Sentence case
Corkboard
Facility to resize cards using the mouse wheel (eg ctrl or alt mousewheel, when the mouse is pointed anywhere on the corkboard, resizes the cards).
Scratchpad
I would like to be able to make it narrower. At the moment at its smallest it takes up about 40% of my screen.
Smaller borders. Or perhaps an option for a ‘compact’ view, where all you see is text, the borders are a couple of pixels wide and all the commands are accessed through the right-click menu (like the options on Media Player Classic’s View/Presets).
Search
Extend search and replace to include all parts of a project (scratchpad, keywords). If you want to change a character name, for example, it might occur anywhere.
Script mode: Right on both counts. These are planned improvements.
Snapshot meta-data: this probably won’t happen any time soon as the feature already works as intended—just to store the text area, and not all of the extra stuff on the side. We will be making adjustments to the way it gets titled by default, however it will use whatever you’ve been using Status for in parentheses after “Untitled” (or whatever title you supply). So you’d see something like “Untitled (First Draft)” in the list. This strikes me as more useful than recording the document title, as that is unlikely to change or be indicative of what the snapshot is about.
There aren’t plans for this. The right-click menu is meant to be more contextual in nature. It provides commonly used tools for the context at hand. If you are right-clicking in the text editor, then it would give you tools for working on the text. If you right-click on an item in the binder, it gives you tools for working with the item(s). Go To is more of an application level tool, and so it works well in the View menu. Do note you can easily pull up any menu by pressing Alt, releasing it, then the menu letter (V in this case) and the sub-menu item letter (G in the case). So to get to the Go To menu in a snap, just hit Alt,V,G.
Yeah, that will come along with an overall general improvement to the keyboard shortcut interface. We need to make that so that every single menu option is available.
That’s a kind of interesting idea. I’ll put it in the hat.
I believe this is fixed in the current beta. It can be shrunk down all the way so that there is no space between the controls at the bottom. I do think the borders are also less prominent in the beta. I don’t have the non-beta version installed anywhere any more so I can’t verify that, but they don’t strike me as being unusually broad.
Search and replace will be expanded a bit further to include snapshots, but not scratchpad, because that is a universal tool that all projects share. What makes sense to change for one batch of notes pertaining to one project might be destructive to another batch. You might look into using the Project Notes feature if you’re using Scratch Pad for long term project note storage. That also, incidentally, has a much “slimmer” interface since it sits in the Inspector, replacing Document Notes.
You can already universally change keywords. If you change a keyword in the Projects/Show Project Keywords panel, you’ll note it asks if you wish to update all assigned keywords to the new text. In the same way you can universally wipe out a keyword you are no longer using, from this panel.
Many thanks for the detailed reply. Am a little disappointed with the response to ‘Go to on right click’ suggestion. I know about Alt-V-G. In each project there are always a couple of documents I am always going back to - a ‘masterplan’ of the entire work, a to-do list, a set of character notes. What I am really looking for is a one-click way of jumping to these specific documents, from wherever I happen to be. One solution has been to copy them to the scratchpad, but this has it limitations. Any other suggestions?
Collections are designed for just this sort of thing. They are a “shelf” or a “tab” that you can add to your binder which let you stash a list of items all pertaining to a particular theme or workflow. You could for instance have a stash for things that need to be rewritten, and as you do rewrites, you remove the item from the collection—causing it to be a to do list. As a list of commonly used documents, it works great for that as well. Just leave the collections tabs open and the items on your frequently-used list are never more than two clicks away.
Additionally we intend to add a browser like menu to the history buttons. I’m not sure if that is in the latest beta yet. I’ll have to double-check that, but that would give you a right-click access to your recently visited documents. If you are are repeatedly viewing things that’s a good way to get back to them. But yeah, I’d say there are better ways to handle frequently accessed documents in Scrivener than the Go To menu. That’s one of the least efficient way to get to something, because it has no persistence of usage, and is mainly useful in scenarios where getting to the Binder is difficult (like full screen mode), or you don’t want to disturb the current Binder layout to get to something.