Writing in Scrivenings
Keep each scene in its own document, and still read and write a whole chapter as one continuous text.
Select a folder in the contents. The editor shows the folder's own text followed by every document inside it, in the contents' order. Scroll, search and edit across the chapter as if it were one document; every change is saved to the scene it belongs to.
Each chapter opens with its number and title, and each scene's title appears between thin rules. To hide the rules, choose View > Hide Scene Dividers. On iPad and iPhone, turn off Show scene titles between fragments in Settings ▸ Editor.
Scene boundaries
Each scene stays a separate document:
- Deleting text that spans two scenes removes it from both, but they stay separate.
- Typing or pasting over text that spans two scenes puts the new text in the first scene.
- Pressing Delete at the start of a scene doesn't join it to the one before.
To change where scenes begin and end, use the Structure menu:
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
| Split at Cursor (⌘K) | Moves the text after the insertion point into a new scene, "Title (continued)", with the same metadata. |
| Merge with Next (⌥⌘K) | Adds the next scene's text to the end of this one, with its comments. The empty scene goes to the Trash. Also in the row's menu in the contents. |
| Move Up, Down, In, Out (⌃⌘ and an arrow key) | Moves the selected item in the contents. |
On iPad and iPhone, use Split at cursor in the bar above the keyboard, or the Scene menu (⇧⌘K) with a hardware keyboard.