Now if open up the HUD and select “Phil (present)” and search, I get zero results. I then create a document and assign the following keywords to it: I have set up a test project in which Keyword HUD contains the following keywords(note this is an example of it NOT working, so the keywords have spaces not underscores): I want to underline the importance of not using any spaces in your keywords, so…
(change search parameters in the little drop down triangle in the search bar) I can also find out all the scenes where John is either physically present or mentioned:ĭo an “Any words” Search for: John_(mentioned) John_(present) If in editing I want to change something about my description of the hospital ward, I can call all the scenes up with: Search for: Phil_(present) Dave_(present) Have Dave and Phil met in the book / Show me all the scenes with Dave and Phil in. With this set up, I can then use the search facilities to tell me things such as: So for example, a scene between Dave and John at the Hospital ward where they talk about Phil would have the following keywords: Then there are any characters present in the scene, followed by any that are only mentioned. The first is the location the scene takes place. Then, for each scene (which in my case is an individual text file) I add a number of keywords.
Minor characters are all the same colour. Note that all the keywords have underscores instead of spaces – they only work if each keyword is a single wordstring.Įach major character gets it’s own colour, so Dave_(mentioned) and Dave_(present) will be the same colour. I also set up a keyword for each location in the book, eg I set up in the Keyword HUD two keywords for each character, eg
Quite a while ago I posted on the Lit’n’Lat forum some details on how I use Keywords in my Scrivener projects to keep track of characters and locations, and someone suggested that I also post it here.
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