I have my project laid out with a folder for each chapter, and a few text files within for each scene. I have a brief synopsis on each folder that I use on the cork board, but when I select a file to start writing, the synopsis in the inspector section switches to the synopsis tied to the text file. I guess this makes sense, but I would much rather see the chapter synopsis here so that I don’t have to copy/paste my description into the text file synopsis each time I create a new file. Is there a better way to handle this? I could swap to using the synopsis of each text file, but I found no way to show those on the cork board.
The inspector works off of whatever is selected in the editor, and Scrivener remembers whatever you were last doing in the editor for each folder. As such if you click on a card in a folder’s corkboard view and later return to that folder, the card will remain selected and thus inspected.
The easiest way to inspect only the folder itself is to click anywhere in the background—or if that is not easy to do, with the Edit ▸ Deselect All menu command.
You could also split the editor and view the draft folder in cork board or outline view (with synopses). Lock that editor so binder selections don’t accidentally affect it, and then you’ll have the synopses for not just the chapter you’re working on, but the others surrounding it as well. You can even set it up so that what you click on in the outline/cork board load into the other editor for writing, which lets you, if you want, select the chapter folder and view the contents of all of its files in Scrivenings mode.