Tip of the Day: You can switch between the Modified and Created date in the inspector by clicking on the up/down arrows next to the date.
Tip of the Day: You can insert Scrivener Links into the notes pane in the inspector, as well as the main text.
Tip of the Day: Using the search field menu, you can search by label & then save your search - useful for tracking characters, for instance.
Tip of the Day: Use the synopsis fields to write your own brief descriptions of associated documents for the best results…
…(as opposed to relying on the synopses that are automatically filled by Scrivener after import, which use the first few lines of text).
Tip of the Day: You can hide the index card and general pane of the inspector by clicking on their title bars.
Tip of the Day: Hold down the green “Add” button in the toolbar for more options - to add a folder or import a web page.
Tip of the Day: Select multiple docs in the binder then enter full screen. Use cmd-[ and cmd-] to navigate between the selected docs in full screen.
Tip of the Day: You can drag supported file types from the Finder to the editor header bar to view them in Scrivener without importing them.
Tip of the Day: You can use the zoom pop-up in the footer bar to increase text size instead of making the font bigger.
Tip of the Day: While typing, hit cmd-period or shift-Escape to bring up the auto-complete list.
Tip of the Day: Click on the image of the three dots at the right of the outliner title bar to see a list of columns that can be added to the outliner.
Tip of the Day: Folders can be set to open in outline mode instead of corkboard mode by default using the Navigation Preferences pane.
Tip of the Day: Select several documents and hit opt-cmd-G to place them all inside a new folder.
Tip of the Day: Resize images in text by double-clicking on them to bring up the scale panel.
Tip of the Day: Select text and hit shift-cmd-hyphen to strike it out.
Tip of the Day: Take a snapshot of your document before you start editing for the day, hit cmd-5, and you can return to your earlier version any time you want.
Tip of the Day: You can add project-specific words to the auto-complete list via Edit > Edit Auto-Complete List…
Tip of the Day: You can drag supported files from the Finder to the editor header bar in Scrivener for just viewing images, PDF files etc in Scriv without importing.
Tip of the Day: Hit cmd-R in an editor to bring up the ruler.
Tip of the Day: Scrivener imports OPML, so you can export from OmniOutliner as OPML and import your outline into Scrivener.
Tip of the Day: You can use the Text > Scriptwriting > Script Settings even if you are not a scriptwriter, to set up your own custom formatting.
Tip of the Day: Text Editing preferences affect new documents. Use Documents > Convert > to Default Style to update the formatting of selected existing documents.
Tip of the Day: Enter or leave script mode by hitting cmd-3 or by going to Text > Scriptwriting > Script Mode.
Tip of the Day: Individual document remember whether they are in script or prose mode.
Tip of the Day: When viewing images, double-click on the image to bring up the image scaling and rotation panel.
Tip of the Day: Hold down the green “Add” button in the toolbar for more options - to add a folder or import a web page.
Tip of the Day: Using the full screen preferences, you can set up full screen to look like a retro computer (e.g green on black).
Tip of the Day: View > Index Cards > Cards Across lets you set how many index cards should be laid out across the corkboard view before wrapping.
Tip of the Day: If you are in scriptwriting mode, new documents are created in scriptwriting mode automatically.
Tip of the Day: To use one of Final Draft’s script formats, choose “Load from Final Draft FDX file…” in the Manage… button at the bottom of the Text > Script Writing > Script Settings panel, and select a FD8 file from which you want to read the formatting.
Tip of the Day: The “Pages (paperback)” stats inView > Statistics > Project Statistics count pages as 6 characters (5 characters + a space) = 1 word, and you set words-per-page in the options. This gives a good rule of thumb idea of how long the trade paperback may be.
Tip of the Day: View > Editor > Zoom In/Zoom Out (opt-cmd-up and opt-cmd-down) zooms in and out on text documents, PDF documents and web pages.
Tip of the Day: To check for overused words, select the documents you want to check, enter Edit Scrivenings mode, and go to View > Statistics > Text Statistics. Click on the disclosure triangle next to “Word Frequency” to reveal the word frequency.
Tip of the Day: The lock button at the bottom-right of the inspector allows you to lock the inspector to the current editor (i.e. if you click in the split view, the inspector won’t update and will carry on showing information for the editor to which it is locked).
Tip of the Day: Opt-click on the split icon in the header view of an editor to change the split type.