Scrivener For Dummies

Looking at the Types of Collections

Created at the project level, a collection isn’t available to all projects; however, you can save your collections as part of a project template for future use. (See Chapter 15 for more on project templates.)

After you create a collection, you can simply select all the files in the resulting list and view them in Scrivenings, Corkboard, or Outliner mode.

You can use two types of collections:

Standard collection: You create this collection manually by adding and removing files to create a custom list. For example, a standard collection could be a list of your first three chapters to use as a compile source for exporting a partial manuscript (see Chapters 12 and 13 for more on compiling). Or you can make a collection list of all scenes that follow a particular subplot within your storyline. You can even use a standard collection to try out an experimental scene order.

Search collection: A project search that you save for future use so that it isn’t overwritten when you run another project search. For example, if you track your document status, you can create a collection of all files marked To Do. Or you might build a collection that lists all documents written in a specific point of view.

Scrivener automatically creates a search collection called ...