Welcome

to Part 2 of the tutorial. You can now hide the

Inspector by clicking on the blue disc icon in the toolbar again if
you so wish.

Quick Start Note: If you are only going through the Quick Start
collection, for this part of the tutorial, I recommend returning to viewing
the full binder. (If you do not, this part of the tutorial may not make as
much sense when you are asked to click on different documents and
folders in the binder.) Do so by clicking on the X in the bottom-right
of the binder area. (Ignore this if you did not choose only to view the
Quick Start collection when you started this tutorial.)

You have now learned some of the fundamental features of

Scrivener. Its now time to move on to some of the organisational
features. First, notice that this document is actually a folder in the binder.
There is no real difference between text and folder documents aside from
their icons, and the fact that folder documents always have disclosure
triangles next to them in the binder (and other outline views) regardless
of whether or not they have anything inside them. Note that the folder
icon for this document (Part 2: Organisation) has a little text icon in its
corner. This means that this folder contains text - the text you are reading
now. (It does not have anything to do with the fact that it also has text
documents inside it, such as Step 7 and so on.) The other major
difference between folders and text documents is the default way they get
viewed when you open them. Well come to that in Step 7.

 In fact, you can convert a folder document into a text document and
vice versa very easily. Click on Part 2: Organisation in the binder to
make sure it is selected, and then go to Documents > Convert > To File in
the main menu. The folder icon changes into a text stack (the stack
indicates that the text document has subdocuments). If you go back to the
Documents > Convert menu, you will see that now you have the option of
converting it back to a folder - do that now. The idea behind this
flexibility is that you can choose to have different visual indicators for
different levels of organisation, and also you dont have to plan in
advance how you structure your project, because if you end up using a
text document as a container for other files, you can always convert it to a
folder later, and vice versa.

To create new documents, click Add in the toolbar. If you hold the
add button down for half a second, a menu appears that lets you choose
which kind of document you would like to add. You can also add
documents via the Project menu, footer views and contextual menus.
Hitting enter in the binder, outliner or corkboard will also create a new
document (although this behaviour can be turned off via the Preferences).

Okay, move on to Step 7 when youre ready (you will need to expand
Part 2 by clicking on the disclosure triangle next to it). Or go get a cup
of tea and a biscuit.