Like a bad rash that doesn’t go away… that’s me.
Primarily for folks stumbling across the forum here, and with the same questions:
Upgrade to Scrivener 3.1. If you bought yours after Nov 2017, your upgrade will be free. If not–it’ll cost what I paid, a week’s worth of the tiny size of Starbucks Lattes. So, make your own coffee for a week and you got 3.1.
Why? How does this even begin to solve the problem?
Well–after digging around; something I should have been doing before writing a book in this forum! I learned the following.
Scrivener 3 has a whole host of extra meta fields. Why is this useful? You can use them to categorize your template, so that if you want custom fields to for example denote POV, the age of your MC’s siblings, or the date and time of your current scene / chapter, you can do that.
It gets better.
It turns out a whole lot of developers have clutched Scrivener to their chest a s well, and they are writing .NET frameworks, Perl Scripts & so forth, and are in the process of putting together a user dev network; much like the communities you find for video games.
Given that we’re talking about XML and RTF here, (Scrivener is written in C++ though I believe), there really isn’t anything to stand in their way (or yours and mine if we’re game) to create plugins, scripts, API’s and the like.
So where a fantasy writer might be well advised to complement Scrivener with World Anvil; for the rest of us we can just stick w-good ol scrivener.
Here’s some links telling the exciting news of what the community devs are up to.
https://hexdocs.pm/scrivener/api-reference.html
And NOW I will shut up. 