Bookmarks are links to files inside or outside your project that can be used to cross reference information to help in writing your novel, play, paper, or anything else. Bookmarks establish a low-impact network of back-links throughout the project. Anything that works as a hyperlink can be bookmarked. Internal Bookmarks can be viewed and edited in the Inspector preview window below the Bookmark you clicked on.

Reach Your Bookmarks by five methods.

1. Click the toolbar bookmark icon

2. Project>Project Bookmarks

Inspector Toolbar Icon

Inspector Header with Bookmark Icon highlighted

3. Keyboard Shortcut- CTRL + Shift + B (if pointer is active inside the program)

4. Click Inspector Bookmark tab

5. Menu dropdown- Navigate> Go to > Includes Bookmarks in the middle of your options.

Types of Bookmarks

Internal (Document/Project) Bookmarks- ONLY ONE type can be viewed at one time and this is project wide. These are internal links to Binder files or folders. You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + 6 to toggle between the types. (I changed to F9) The name of the item will be used for its description, if you edit the title here the original item will be renamed as well!

A. Project Bookmarks will be available in the Inspector Bookmark panel of every document if this view is chosen. All project bookmarks can be viewed in this window.

B. Document Bookmarks are bookmarks tied to a single document. These are great for backwards links to content that is tied to the current document for reference. The Quick Reference Panel ONLY contains Document Bookmarks.

External Bookmarks- Are external files from your computer or the Internet. When you drag a computer file onto the Bookmark Manager Panel, or into the Bookmark Inspector window, then Scrivener will automatically add the file name as the title and fill in the path to the file on the computer. If you move the file on your computer, it will break the bookmark. You can edit the bookmark to change the name or file path, but it is easier to drag the file into Scrivener and let the program do the work. The same method works for web links. It is easiest to drag the link directly into the Bookmark Panel or the Inspector and let Scrivener add the information. If need be, then right click on the Bookmark and choose edit to modify the title. Or paste in a web link. Use the edit option to change the Link title to something that makes sense for you.

External File Bookmarks- Use this menu to load the windows file browser. Any file you select in this browser will be added as a link to the bookmark list. The default description for it will be the file’s current name, but this can be safely changed if you prefer.

Project Bookmarks- Sharing Bookmarks Between Projects: If you drag items from the binder of one project, into the bookmark tab of another (either project or document bookmarks are valid targets), this will store a special external direct link to the individual items you dropped. Double-clicking this bookmark will load the project if necessary and open the item you linked to within it. This can be helpful if you have novels in a series and need to cross reference information or have a series Bible for story or worldbuilding details.

What happens when you click a Bookmark?

The right click options are contextual and will change based on the type of bookmark such as external file from another program, a file from another project, a web page, or an internal document. All will have different options when you right click on the bookmark.

If click on a Bookmark in the Inspector this then opens in the Inspector panel below the bookmarks and functions as a full media page.

If the Bookmark is a webpage, then if click on this, it will load the webpage directly into the Inspector window panel below the Bookmark. Note options on how this file and others behave is set in the Options Panel. (See below)

If the Bookmark is a computer data/media file, then if click it, it will load the document from the computer into the window.

If the Bookmark is a program file, then when click on the file, you will see the file name with an icon in the pane below. Clicking on the Link will open that file in its native program. (The Right click option will be to open in an External Editor (the native file program).

If the Bookmark is a Scrivener document from another project, then when you click on this Bookmark, the file will open in its original project to be viewed and in the Inspector will see an External Link (hyperlink) to click.

Inspector Bookmark Right click Options (for Project Bookmarks)

1. Add Internal Bookmark- Allows you to navigate within your current project and select a document to be a new Project Bookmark without going to the Binder.

2. Add External Bookmark- Allows you to add a web page by adding a title and web address (URL).

3. Add External File Bookmark- This option will open Windows file explorer for you to add a computer file as a bookmark. (Note: you can use the link function (Menu-Edit > Add Link) to do the same in a particular file. (Only linked to that one document.). However, this way the file can be opened anywhere in your project by clicking on its Bookmark in the Inspector/bookmark panel)

4. Self explanatory

5. Open File Location- This will show the location of the file on your computer. For Internal Documents you will have the option to Reveal in the Binder.

6. Copy URL- This will copy the location of the file inside inside the scrivener program or will copy the URL of a web page to allow you to paste this elsewhere.

7 and 8 are self explanatory. (You can hand enter the address, but it is easier and more accurate to copy the address and paste into the URL field.

The right click options are slightly different in other areas.

Note: The Reveal in Binder option will highlight the location of the Bookmark in the Binder

Eight ways to add Files/Folders to your Bookmarks

Note: Bookmarks are naturally arranged in the order they are added, but you can manually click and drag bookmarks to change this order to place your most useful bookmarks at the top.

1. Right click any file/folder in the binder and choose the menu option of Add to Project Bookmarks

2. Drag any file into either Project or Document Bookmarks when the Bookmarks pane is open in the Inspector window. (You can drag multiple files at once.)

3. Drag any file into Project Bookmarks by dragging into the open Bookmark Panel.

4. Menu via Documents > Add to Project Bookmarks for the currently viewed file or folder to be added to the Project Bookmarks.

5. Add Internal/External/External File Bookmark from the Bookmark Manager using … menu in the footer bar.

6. Add Internal Bookmarks in the Inspector Bookmark Panel using … menu either in Project or Document Bookmarks. (see below)

7. In every QRP is a Bookmark Icon and clicking this will open a unique Bookmark Panel with a plus button that allows you to create a new Binder file that will also be added to Project Bookmarks. You will see the dialog button below and the option of deciding where to place the new Project Bookmark. (Or can set in Project Settings and Special folders window) Only Document Bookmarks can be viewed in a QRP.

8. In every QRP clicking the bookmark option in the far right side of the header creates a split view. If files are dragged into the new split section, these files will be added as Document Bookmarks ONLY for this file or folder and will be visible in the Inspector Bookmark tab of the file/folder when the QRP is closed.

Creating a New Bookmarks Folder

You can configure where any new Bookmarks you create inside a Quick Reference Panel are placed. Note you can only create a new blank bookmark in the Bookmark Panel of the Quick Reference Panel which has a + sign in the lower left corner. When clicking on the + sign you will be prompted to decide where to put the new Bookmark you are creating.

The location of the Default New Bookmarks Folder can be designated in the Project>Project Settings>Special Folder pane.(You can name this folder anything you want and should place outside the Manuscript.)

With more complex files such as an excel file /or a scapple project you will see a link to click to open the file in the appropriate/native program. Picture files will be displayed as images in the viewer section below the bookmark in the Inspector pane that acts as file/picture viewer.

Four Methods to Remove Bookmarks

(This does not remove the original file/folder from the Binder.)

1. Keyboard Shortcut- The Ctrl + Delete keys will send the highlighted file/folder directly to the trash folder. This also works for a any highlighted Project/Document Bookmark in the Bookmark Panel or the Inspector Bookmark Pane.

2. The Bookmark Right click menu- When right click on a Bookmark in the Bookmark Panel or the Inspector Bookmark Pane you will see the same menu options.

3. Menu Dropdown- Documents> Remove from Project Bookmarks is active if click on a file that has been included in bookmarks. (This does not work for Document Bookmarks.)

4. Binder Right click Menu to remove a Binder item that is a bookmark from the Project Bookmarks (not work for Document Bookmarks.) The options will be grayed out if not available. (ie cannot add a Binder document twice if already added, or remove again if already off the Project Document List.) (Modified view of the right click menu.)

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