@Santi Younger Fair question. Here's some background. I started using Scrivener before I experimented with Notion/Roam/Obsidian/Tana. In some ways, I have been fascinated by how Scrivener had crudely implemented some of the features we now take for granted - a rough system for bidirectional links, and a few of their metadata features. (I still wish that Tana had an equivalent to Scapple - which is a stupid simple companion to Scrivener that lets you do spatial layouts of ideas - my biggest wishlist item for Tana). But for better or for worse, I've always thought of Scrivener as a "writing tool" - a place for more extended finished pieces of writing. I have struggled to make Scrivener work for me for the outlining and structural work of managing the construction of an extremely large and complex piece of writing - especially one where the ideas come in bits and pieces, some of which may have only the vaguest notion of their potential context of use at the time the idea comes to you. I started out using Tana for PKM and task management and then reasoned by analogy from the PKM-work to start using Tana for certain parts of the writing process. I find that when I work in Scrivener, I generate large chunks of text that are then hard to break back apart, organize, or restructure because once they exist in the longer form, it's hard for me mentally to break them back down. However, Tana is easier to capture the small pieces and then have an organizational structure that makes those smaller pieces findable and accessible so that I can then assemble them into a larger building block of a novel. For example, when I am in Scrivener, if I have a vague idea for a character trait for a potential or existing character, there is a heavy mental tax incurred for deciding "where it goes" so that I can find it again in the future. My structure in Tana, borrowed heavily from my PKM work, makes that super simple. I can keep the pieces atomically and then grab it when I am ready to do further assemblage with that work into a larger component up to a point.

I was thinking about this a little more and maybe the simplest way to put it is that Tana is super helpful to me at the parts of managing the ideas for a project and the earlier stages of writing - kind of as a "Spreadsheet for ideas."

Thanks for the workaround.