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<\/a><\/p>\nYou can have:<\/p>\n
A) Synopsis – each scene\/document can have one. You can show this in the outliner, it’s available in the sidebar (Inspector), and it’s what appears on the index cards in index card view. <\/p>\n
You can make it pretty long, but you can’t make the synopsis window very big, so a long synopsis means a lot of scrolling. It would also mess up the outline view (though you can hide\/show it pretty easily).<\/p>\n
There is a synopsis finder, which will search for text in the synopses only.<\/p>\n
B) Document notes – this takes up much of the Inspector. Each scene\/chapter\/folder\/file\/whatever gets its own document notes.<\/p>\n
C) Project notes – this is an interesting concept. These notes apply to the whole project. You can view them in the inspector (instead of the document notes) or in a floating window. In either case you can use tabs to divide your project notes into different pieces.<\/p>\n
I don’t use project notes at all. I’m not sure what the point is. It seems easier to create a document for each kind of note – if I want to see it while I’m in some other document, I can either split the screen or open it in a popup via quick view. <\/p>\n
Document notes are where I put…notes…about what needs to change in that particular scene, or what I need to write. Things like “make her more suspicious” (fiction) or “more exciting, shorter” (day job). I also use it for notes to refer to later: “moon 1\/4 full”. For fiction I use document notes a lot. For work stuff I hardly ever use them.<\/p>\n
The synopsis, on the other hand, I use more at work than for fiction. Which seems weird. But it’s a convent place to stick a short list that holds the due date and status (due Mar 16, waiting for content from X). This then shows up in my outline view and helps me get a quick overview of a project.<\/p>\n
For fiction, I just give my scenes longish titles. I would like to use the synopsis to hold an outline of the scene–at one point, I was writing very detailed outlines based on Bickham’s scene and sequel structure (which I can’t find my post on to link to). Lately I haven’t been doing that, but it’d still be nice to have a list of what is in the scene, separate from what I need to do to the scene (which is in document notes). I could make a separate document for every scene (maybe a subdocument), but that starts messing up chapter word counts and makes compiling (exporting) the text annoying.<\/p>\n
Scrivener users, do you use project notes and the synopsis? If you use another program, does it have various kinds of note fields, and do you find them useful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scrivener provides a lot of places to put notes. This is a feature I don’t make full use of. You can have: A) Synopsis – each scene\/document can have one. You can show this in the outliner, it’s available in … Continue reading