I only just spotted this which makes me feel like an idiot. It's <em>so</em> obvious and yet I never noticed it before. Very useful too.

Any Scrivener user learns very quickly that you can edit and view multiple scenes just by selecting them in the Binder. What I just realised is that you can do this for <strong>non</strong>-consecutive scenes too.

Say you have a couple of scenes in one location, with a scene or two set elsewhere in between. You're writing the second scene to match the first location. With most software you'd have to keep going backwards and forwards to refer to what went before, or open a new window in Word.

No more...

<!--more-->Just select the scenes in the Binder using the command key when you click on them. This only picks the scene itself and doesn't care whether they're contiguous. What you then see are the scenes with the intermediate bits taken out, and all the notes for those scenes. And yes - this works for full screen view too. Magic...

<a href="http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-shot-2011-02-28-at-11.17.42.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7547" title="Non-contiguous scenes" src="http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Screen-shot-2011-02-28-at-11.17.42-640x305.png" alt="" width="640" height="305"></a>