Getting Oriented in the Binder Video Lecture | Master the Skills: Scrivener - Career Development

in the previous video about the binder
we saw that clicking on a document in
the binder opens it in the editor but
there are other ways of navigating
around your Scrivener project so the
selection in the binder doesn't always
match what is displayed in the editor to
demonstrate I'll click through the first
few chapters of our example project here
then press the back button provided in
the editors header bar I'm now viewing
chapter 2 in the editor while our
selection in the binder doesn't seem to
have changed chapter 4 is still
highlighted over here in the binder
however you'll notice that a secondary
selection bar has appeared highlighting
the chapter we're looking at in the
editor this allows you to return to your
previous place by clicking the selection
in the binder and means the binder
doesn't jump around when you're
navigating using the editor but you can
still see where the current document is
if you want the binder to select the
documents you're currently looking at in
the editor hit command option R which is
the keyboard shortcut for revealing
binder from the navigate menu Scrivener
allows you to split the editor so you
can view two files side-by-side it's
possible to navigate between documents
in either editor by using the binder but
right now only the editor which is in
focus will be affected by what you click
on in the binder you can tell the editor
is in focus when the header bar appears
blue and that can be changed simply by
clicking in the other editor as you can
see when I click on an item in the
binder its opening in the editor with
the blue header by holding down the
option key when you click items in the
binder it's possible to do the opposite
preserving the document in the editor
with the blue header and opening
documents in the editor which isn't in
focus alternatively by going to navigate
binder selection effects you can tell
Scrivener to open documents in the other
editor you can even prevent an editor
from being affected by the binder at all
by control clicking on the header bar
and choosing lock in place or using the
keyboard shortcuts command option L to
lock the editor which is currently in
focus the header bar then turns this
orangey pink color and now any selection
you make in the binder will
automatically affect the other editor
which you'll notice it still has a blue
header this doesn't mean you can't make
edits in the editor you've locked in
place though you can click in here and
as normal
the editor focus is now shown by the
thick line on the bottom border of the
header bar watch how this changes as I
click between each editor when you
aren't working with a locked editor the
InFocus editor will have both the blue
header and the thick divider so as you
can see the binder and editor can
interact in a variety of ways that's all
we need to cover in this video if you
want a closer look at any other features
of Scrivener our other videos should be
linked nearby thanks for watching and
happy writing
you