The corkboard is one of Scrivener’s most distinctive structural tools, so let’s look at that now.

Basic Usage
The corkboard shows the immediate subdocuments of the selected document. To see what I mean, click into the top editor to give it the focus (it should still be showing the “ThisIsBuzzAldrin” media file; if so, click somewhere in the control panel—near the volume control slider for instance—so that the header bar of the top editor turns blue. Once the top editor has the focus, click on the “Draft” folder in the binder, and ensure that the capsule “Group Mode” control in the toolbar has the corkboard selected.
Note how the corkboard in the top editor now shows the folders, “Part 1” through to “Part 5”, represented as index cards. If you look in the binder, you will notice that these five folders are the immediate subdocuments (or “children”) of the Draft folder—that is, they are only indented one level from the Draft folder. The corkboard thus allows you to concentrate on individual levels of your structure.
Next, in the corkboard itself, double-click on the folder icon in the second card, which is titled “Part 2: Organisation”. This will drill down to show the contents of the “Part 2” folder represented as index cards. Each card shows the title of the document and a synopsis area that can be used to remind you of the content of the document or to note what you intend to write in the document later. You can edit the synopsis or title by double-clicking into a card, and you can drag the cards around (and into the binder) to reorder your documents.
If the inspector is open while the corkboard (or outliner) is open, it will show information for the currently selected card.
You can change the corkboard settings—the number of cards that get drawn across, their width and so on—by clicking on the button with the image of four index cards in it in the right of the footer bar beneath the corkboard:

(Incidentally, if you don’t like the corkboard background, you can change it to a colour or texture of your choice in the Corkboard section of the Options. You can also change the way the cards look, to get rid of the rounded corners to make them look more like real index cards, or switch to virtual pins instead of corner  markers.)

Controlling The Other Editor From The Corkboard
Note the button containing the two arrows facing in opposite directions in the corkboard footer bar:

This is the “Auto-Load Button”. Click on it now. You will notice that it turns blue, to indicate that it is on. When this button is on, selecting documents in the corkboard (or outliner) will open them in the other editor if there is a split. Try clicking on the “Step 7” card, then on the “Step 8” card, and then on the “Step 9” card (which should bring you back here).
See how clicking on the cards opened the documents associated with them in this editor? That’s a useful trick, as it means you can hide the binder and use the corkboard or outliner to navigate if you want to, or just use the corkboard or outliner as secondary navigation tools.
Click on the Auto-Load button again so that the arrows turn back to grey, then try clicking on the cards in the corkboard once more—this time nothing will happen, because the button has been deselected.

View Options
Go to View > Corkboard Options > Show Pins. The result will depend on the look you have chosen for the label indicator in the corkboard Options. If you are using the default corner mark look, then each card that has a label associated with it will now have a colour chip in is top-right corner; if you are using the pin look, then each index card will now display a pin holding it in place that is the colour of the label associated with the document. Alternatively, you can select View > Use Label Color In > Index Cards to tint the actual cards with the colour of the label. You can also select Show Stamps via View > Corkboard Options, which places a diagonal stamp on the cards—this stamp shows the status associated with the document represented by the index card.
Right clicking on an index card brings up a contextual menu that allows you to change the label (and thus the colour of the pin) and status—you can use the contextual menu to assign a label or status to multiple cards, too, by selecting the all the cards you wish to affect before Control-clicking on one of them.
There are other viewing options available in the View > Corkboard Options menu, but we won’t cover them here (they are all explained in the Help file though of course).
One more thing to note, before we move on, is that graphics files get displayed on the corkboard as pictures. Click in the corkboard above to ensure it has the focus, and then click on the “Research” folder to see what I mean.
Okay, we covered a lot there! Remember that you don’t have to use the features that don’t appeal to you, though. Not all writers like corkboards—some Scrivener users never touch the corkboard at all, preferring the outliner, which we’ll come to next.

When you’re ready then—after a stretch of the legs, a glass of wine, a good curse at the prolixity of this tutorial’s author, whichever helps—let’s move on to “Step 10” and look at the outliner in more depth.