Transform title into text

Hi everyone
Long time mindnode user, first time scrivener user. I usually write long sentences/summarize papers directly in the nodes, and rarely use the notes. So, when I import into scrivener, each node has a very long title in the binder but no text in the document. There’s a possibility to automatically transform the title into text?

Hi Kiercardo. Welcome to the forum. :slight_smile:

That I know of, there is no automatic way to achieve that.
You will have to do it manually.

You can either simply copy paste your titles to the editor.
Or drag the documents from the binder unto themselves in the editor, then remove the link attributes that this operation would have formatted your titles into.

For the future, note that in outliner view, you can display the synopsis along the title of documents.
This way, if it fits your workflow, you could have kept your titles short, while still developing your ideas in a context where the project is visible in its ensemble.

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I personally do things pretty much the way that you described.
I write long descriptive titles to my documents.
But I only take care of it once I have more to write in a document.
I don’t quite bother myself with it, and don’t make it an “operation”, where I’d fix all my documents at once.
I feel no urgency to handle it, and just do it for a document whenever I happen to later on work on it.

thank you, actually arranging documents trough the outliner instead of the cork board works way better!

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There is a setting for changing the import as well, under the Sharing pane in Scrivener ▸ Preferences. In the Import section toward the bottom you’ll see the OPML settings; ticking Import outline into main text should do what you’re after, putting all the parts of your MindNode outline into the main editor text in Scrivener rather than using the titles. With that, you’ll see the opening text of each item as the placeholder title text in Scrivener, and if you like you can manually enter a title at any point, either typing your own meaningful title or selecting text in the document and using Documents ▸ Auto-Fill ▸ Set Selected Text as Title.

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That’s right.
I limited my answer to an “after the fact”, where if you still don’t have work done in Scrivener and can still simply reimport the files, @MimeticMouton’s answer should do it for you.

it does! thank you so much!