Splitting a document into (nested) sub-sections, naming them

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1

I find I am frequently moving back and forth between writing several paragraphs in a document, and wanting to split them back apart into sub-sections. Is there a way to do this without manually moving them down a level each time, and manually putting in text into the document name each time?

D1:  par1, par2, par3, par4

change to (and from):

D1:
  par1
  par2
  par3
  par4

Thanks - SOphie

2

How about Documents Menu/Split ?

Dave

3

Thanks Dave, but … Can’t split at the start of a document, and split gives a new text node at the same level, not nested. My usage is slightly different.

Sophie

4

This sounds to me like a usage demanding something like iKey or Keyboard Maestro.

Dave

5

Wouldn’t ‘Edit Scrivenings’, which brings the selected nodes together into the edit window, do the trick?

6

Okay, then, why not use Split (with selection as title, if desired) to create a whole bunch of nodes all at the same level, then select them all and move them down a level as a group? Then, as someone else pointed out, you can use Edit Scrivenings to smush them together again as needed.

No, it isn’t a fully automated solution, but in my experience it works pretty well.

Katherine

7

Sounds good, I will go with that. Thanks!