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Create and use collections

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Create and use collections

- [Speaker] Collections give you an easy way to review related documents from different parts of your project. For example, if you're writing a novel that's being told from many points of view, you might create a standard collection of all the documents that share the point of view of each character. This helps you check for consistency, or, if you're writing a novel that jumps back and forth in time, you might want a collection to review the consistency of your timeline. Let me show you how to make a collection. Click on "view" in the Scrivener toolbar, and then "show collections". Scrivener lets you make two types of collections: a search collection, and a standard collection. In a search collection, you search for a word. For example, let's search for spokesperson. You'll see every document where I used that word in the search result folder. If I want to save this search as a collection, I can click the magnifying glass in the search bar, go to the bottom, select "save search as…

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