Maybe I’m being too finicky or maybe I don’t properly understand how the feature is supposed to work? I can work around the fact that I can’t actually edit it the way that I can the document notes and I’m forced to rely on the auto-populate option, but there appears to be no rhyme or reason to how the auto-populate works and how much it will allow in it.
1: only lets me have 89 characters.
2: No problem fitting the 125 characters.
3: Up to 129 characters!
4: 121 characters.
5: Cuts me off before the full 114 characters.
It’s not because of a struggle to “fit” unusually long words, and no matter what (other than changing my font, obviously) I can’t seem to get it to adjust so that I don’t have an extra three lines of index card.
Can somebody explain how the synopsis feature is supposed to work so I don’t have to trial-and-error myself to death to get a one-sentence synopsis that I can see in the outline?
In the binder, select the folder containing your text file(s)
Click the corkboard view button (centre one in the view mode group at the top of the window)
Double click the index card you want to edit
Type your synopsis
Press Enter when done
The synopsis you typed can now be viewed in the outliner.
At the moment, the only thing I can’t get to work on the corkboard is multiple lines per synopsis. I tried Alt-Enter and Ctrl-Enter but they both work the same as Enter. I’m using virtual windows on a Mac to test this, so that may have something to do with it.
The bit I find buggy:
I was, however, able to type a multi-line synopsis in notepad, then double click on an index card and paste that multi-line synopsis onto the card, preserving the newlines, so maybe that will do as a workaround if you want multiple lines. You can also double-click the synopsis in the Outliner view and enter the text directly in there. Pasting a multi-line synopsis also works in the Outliner.
However, in all multi-line cases, when you select another text you’ll see the multiple lines turn into a single line with a ‘non-printable’ character wherever a newline was. I’m sure this will be fixed soon.
That does help a lot with creating synopses, thanks! And I think I figured out how the auto-populate works; it appears to be picking the first 19 words (unless one of the words has a hyphen, in which case it’s 20 according to the built-in wordcounter).