Here are some further resources and discussions that might be helpful for using Scrivener in a more general purpose fashion:
- A template that creates a project designed to be used as a note-taking tool. The idea here was to take the “Scratch Pad” idea and make it even better.
- Using Scrivener as a Zettelkasten. This covers some basics, with a list of topics in the user manual to look at.
- Notes on using Scrivener like a wiki. This first post has some further links to follow; also scroll down for further discussion on the topic of “wiki-like” usage.
- Linking text to text directly. While certainly not a task specific to note-taking vs general writing, it’s the kind of thing I tend to do a lot of in projects that are primarily meant for notes, so you might find some of this to be useful.
- Further on linking. Written primarily for those familiar with dedicated note-taking tools, such as Obsidian and Logseq, this is meant to demonstrate how Scrivener works differently from them, and where it has pros where some other tools have cons.
I don’t know if you will find an actual community of Scrivener users using Scrivener less in a writing role and more in a note-taking role. Instead you’ll find a lot of discussion scattered throughout existing communities. It is a minority usage, but one that has always had a lot of interest—to the point that a lot of v3’s design improvements were made with that kind of usage in mind. It just so happens that a lot of what makes for a good note-taking tool also makes for a good writing tool, so even those things tend to be more largely talked of in the context of long-form writing.
But as you’ll see, I’m a big fan of using it that way, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that the large majority of my Scrivener projects have nothing to do with long-form writing!