Yeah, sorry about that, I didn’t think! If it isn’t ok, can someone please delete it? I don’t want to offend anyone.
I like collections very much, and have ideas about a slightly more sophisticated way to use them in the future to almost mimic those programmes that allow text analysis. I have only tried it on samples, but it works quite well in theory - something like:
Read article in Skim, highlighting key points
Export annotations from Skim
Copy and paste each individual annotation into a separate document in Scrivener, named by author, title, page number
Assign one or more keywords to quote
Make a collection for each keyword through the smart feature
When I want to explore individual quotes for a topic, as represented by a keyword, call them all together into one document through the scrivenings feature
It’s an extra step or two, but since I already use Skim in this way and export annotations to a single file, it’s not much more, especially if I combine iClipboard and Typeit4me or something similar to save as much effort as possible, and I have a feeling it’ll pay dividends sometimes, especially in articles that have lots of key quotes on different topics so that a single summary for the whole article is unhelpful.
Don’t worry about it, we aren’t uptight about that kind of stuff on this forum.
Regarding importing annotations from Skim, the [b]File/Import/Import and Split...[/b] menu command might save you a lot of manual labour. Using “• Anchored Note, ” to split by might work, if that is the type of annotation you use. That will result in line one stating the page number, with the note title on the following line and then the text of the note.
Ioa, thank you! That’s awesome! I love how amazing the support is for Scrivener; it’s nothing I’ve come across before. Not only can the software be flexible enough to do almost any text-based task, but there are amazing experts to help us know how! So yeah, thank you!
And honestly this has to be one reason Scrivener is such great software - when I first bought it I was up and running in a few minutes, using the basic features of documents, binder and synopsis cards. Project targets quickly got added to the workflow, then keywords, then collections and scrivenings… it’s so easy to use, but it just grows with you - brilliant!
And thanks for not being cross about the photo content - I apologise for not thinking in advance
Just to be clear: I love the image. I was joking when I said “thank goodness” and can assure you that no offence was taken. In truth I was intrigued to know what type of essay could include the various topics suggested by the collections. It was fascinating and well-worth posting.
Thanks nom - yeah, it was quite the topic to research and very interesting I have to say! I’m glad if the image and workflow was worth posting. I love reading other people’s uses and ideas, so it’s only fair to share mine
Yeah, we’re more likely to be titillated than offended here.
“Naked bathing” huh? I’m in favor of both.
“Sex”? Now yer talkin’!
“Mixed bathing”? What is that? Like mixing your bath with your sex? Ooh, la la!
“Slaves!?” I got nothin to say 'bout that. nudges ‘toys’ back under the bed
“Violence?” Isn’t that a bit judgmental now? I prefer the term “forceful”. Rrrrower!
See what you’ve gotten yourself into by boarding with this motley crew?
It’s all right Scylax, this is called “fun” in these parts. It’s all in good spirits (preferably, at least from vic-k’s persecutive, Jameson’s) and posted with joy.
As a matter of fact, we often invoke the name of Mr. K in an effort to lure him into the open. Thereby unleashing all his pent up funniness on the rest of us.
Are you kidding? That’s the best bunch of Collections titles we’ve ever seen - I wondered what sort of novel you were writing until I saw the Roman connection, but I’m pretty sure it would have been a bestseller had it been a novel.
I’m embarrassed but I should be, looking at that! It honestly wasn’t anywhere near as bad or salacious as it looks, though the baths don’t seem to have been somewhere for the faint-hearted! Even after a couple of years I remember the tales of people being punched because they were mistaken for a slave when they merely bumped someone’s elbow, for example!
Lose the Slaves and Violence (well, we did shoot a tree, for reasons we won’t go into here), and those collections sounds like my first date with my wife of 43 years and counting. Though, technically, Invite Fishing should come before Naked Bathing and Sex.
Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed geyser with a wrinkled prow and a crooked flutter; whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed spouter, with three holes punctured in his plastic bottle—look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white spew, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys.
I know it’s an old thread, but I built a layout I really like and had to share! I’m on the Windows version (no money for a mactop) free trial until I win NaNoWriMo and get the discount Anyway: i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd4 … d55135.jpg
Edit: The background in my corkboard is ‘Tardamask’, and I themed my whole Scrivener on it.
I got nothin to say 'bout that. nudges ‘toys’ back under the bed
Keep in coming…yeah!!..how about some S&M 8) 
Anyway: