Tip of the Day: Select a document or folder in the binder and use Documents > Change Icon in Scrivener 2 to better organise your binder.
Tip of the Day: Use opt-cmd-P to bring up your Project Notes notepad. Any notes written will be available from the project notes area of your inspector.
Tip of the Day: Use your Scratch Pad (Window > Show Scratch Pad) to store multiple notes. You can then send them to any of your Scrivener projects by using the Send to Project… menu.
Tip of the Day: Do you want Scrivener to take foreground precedence in your screen real-estate? You can simply use Window > Float Window to keep it on top.
Tip of the Day: Don’t like your fingers leaving your keyboard when using Scrivener 2, please find our keyboard shortcuts here literatureandlatte.com/wiki/ … _reference
Tip of the Day: Searching for a synonym or definition? Try pressing ctrl-cmd-D whilst floating over the offending word in a Scrivener project.
Tip of the Day: To strike through text, select it in the editor and hit shift-cmd-hyphen.
Tip of the Day: To prevent the binder changing documents in a particular editor, use Lock in Place (opt-cmd-L); the header bar turns pink.
Tip of the Day: To resize an image within Scrivener, double-click on it in the editor. This will bring up the image tools panel.
Tip of the Day: To create your own scriptwriting formats, use Format > Scriptwriting > Script Settings… Useful for custom formatting too.
Tip of the Day: Press the spacebar on supported documents in the binder to launch Quick Reference Windows youtube.com/watch?v=5k5BN1nc2KQ
Tip of the Day: Move the cursor to the bottom of the screen whilst in full screen mode to show the control panel, or the top of the screen for Scrivener menus.
Tip of the Day: To split up text after importing, use Documents > Split at Selection (cmd-K) or Split with Selection as Title (option-cmd-K).
Tip of the Day: You can convert a text file into a folder and vice versa via Documents > Convert > to File / to Folder.
Tip of the Day: Scrivener allows you to create templates from your projects and to share them with others if you wish. ~/Library/Application Support/Scrivener/ProjectTemplates
Tip of the Day: You can check that you are running the latest version of Scrivener by going to Scrivener > Check for Updates… The current version is 2.0.5, with 2.1 coming soon!
Tip of the Day: Documents > Convert allows you to convert PDF or web files into text files for editing (some formatting may be lost).