I would like to thank the developer for developing such a useful software.
I have a small suggestion. It would be helpful if the “save” and “save as” buttons can added to the main toolbar. It would be convenient rather than pressing “Ctrl+S” or clicking “save” from drop-down menu “File -> Save”. I didn’t find the “save” and “save as” button in “customize toolbar” section. Kindly consider this feature for next update.
Thanks & Regards,
Thanks for the feedback, glad you’re finding the software useful.
These two buttons are absent from our toolbar for deliberate reasons:
Seeing as how Scrivener functions more akin to programs like OneNote or Evernote, in that what you are working on in front of you is more than likely already saved, because the thing in front of you is actually dozens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of tiny files, rather than “a document”—having a save button would send the wrong message. By the time you could switch to using the mouse, move the pointer to the button and click, the software would mostly likely have already automatically saved your project. Of course with Scrivener you can have multiple projects, unlike those two programs where everything is packed into a single umbrella format, but the comparison is still close enough. This is more like them, and much less like Word.
For many of the same reasons, “Save As” isn’t something the average person should need to use often enough to merit having a button for (it’s already problematic just having the menu command, as people use it like they would use such a feature in a word processor, which can lead to confusing messes—a good percentage of our routine support here is helping people unravel Save As tangles). Most of the tasks one might use “Save As” for are already in the project format, and meant to be used within it, on the relevant Binder items you are working on. Snapshots and duplication (up to entire outline trees) will handle all of the scenarios that such a command would be used for with software that does not provide a working environment for you (such as a word processor—the working environment is nothing but File Explorer).
The second most common use of Save As, to leave a trail of duplications as a form of backup, is better done using the File/Back Up/Back Up To… command, which spools off an optionally zipped and timestamped copy of the project (never mind that the software creates its own backups for you whenever the project is closed, by default) without moving you to a new location on the disk. You may of course have some perfectly legitimate use of “Save As”, but I’m just explaining why there was even significant hesitation toward putting this command in the software at all, let alone as a prominent toolbar button.
You will note, we do have a toolbar button for both “Back Up To” and “Back Up Now” (the latter simply invokes the internal backup engine—you don’t have to do anything after clicking it, Scrivener handles the details, as well as rotating the oldest backup out to reduce clutter).
Thank you for the elaborate reply.