Are you still with us? We’re most of the way there, I promise.
We’re going to look at a feature called “Collections” next. Collections provide a way of keeping lists of documents that have nothing to do with their binder order. The easiest way to understand what I mean is to create a collection, so let’s do that now.

Creating an Arbitrary Collection
Click on the “Collections” button on the left-hand side of the toolbar. 

You will see an extra area appear at the top of the binder with a blue and purple tab in it, entitled “Binder” and “Search Results”. Try clicking on the “Search Results” tab.

See what happened? The last search you ran gets run again, and its results appear where the binder was. This will even be saved in between sessions, and we’ll soon learn how you can save more than one search permanently as tabs.
Now click on the “Binder” tab to return to the binder.
Next, click on the icon in the editor’s header view to bring up the header bar menu, and click on “Lock in Place”:

The header bar will turn dark pink. This indicates that the editor is now “locked”, which means that clicks in the binder will have no effect. Try clicking on different documents in the binder to see what I mean—they will no longer get loaded into the editor when selected as they normally do. This useful ability can be toggled with Ctrl-Shift-L, too.
Now hold down the Ctrl key and click on several documents in the binder to select them. Once you have selected five or six—it doesn’t matter which ones; they can even be from the Research folder or elsewhere—click on the “+” button in “Collections” bar at the very top of the binder:

The binder will temporarily disappear, to be replaced by a flat list showing only the documents you selected. You haven’t moved those documents, though—they are all still in their rightful places in the binder.  You’ve just created a collection (more specifically, an arbitrary collection) and when you created it, the selected documents were automatically added to it. To see what I mean right-click on one of the documents in the collection list and select “Reveal in Binder” from the View menu. This will show you where the document is located in the binder. Click back on the collection tab once you’ve tried this, to return to the collection.
You can rename the collection to anything you want, and you can change its colour by double-clicking on its colour chip:

Go ahead and try changing the title and colour. You can also drag and drop tabs amongst one another to change their order.
Let’s add some more documents to the collection. Click back on the Binder tab and select some different documents. Once you’ve selected some, drag and drop them onto your collection tab. You will see that the documents you dragged onto the tab are now in the collection too.
You can drag and drop the documents in the collection list to arrange them into any order you want. If we unlocked this editor, clicking on documents in the collection would open them in the editor, just as happens when selecting documents in the binder.
Collections can be used for whatever you like. You might, for instance, use them to gather together documents you need to do more work on, removing them as you are satisfied with them. You might use a collection to experiment with the order of documents before committing to the arrangement. Once you were happy with the arrangement, you could select all the documents, right-click on them, and use Move To from the contextual menu to move them all to the location in the binder you want them.

Search Collections
There’s another way of creating collections, too—you can save your search results as collections. Let’s create a collection of all documents with their status marked “To Do”:
	1.	Click on the downward-pointing arrow next to the magnifying glass in the search field in the toolbar, and select “Status”.
	2.	Click in the search field and type “To Do”. The binder will be replaced by the regular purple search results list (with its associated “Search Results” tab selected in the Collections pane above). You could check with the Inspector and see that the status for each is marked “To Do”, as you would expect, were the editor not locked.
	3.	Click on the downward-pointing arrow next to the magnifying glass in the search field again, and this time select “Save Search…” from the bottom of the menu.
	4.	Enter a name for the search, e.g. “To Do” (it will use the search phrase by default) and hit “OK”.
The search results will now change colour and you will see that a new tab has appeared in the list of collections named “To Do”. Again, you can rename this or change the colour to one of your choosing. The magnifying glass icon on the left of the tab indicates that this is a search collection. These are different to regular, “arbitrary” collections in that you can’t arbitrarily add documents to them or move them around within the list of other search results. Instead, every time you click on a search collection, the search gets run again. 
Search collections can be used in various ways. You could use one to keep track of the storyline of a character in a novel, to highlight documents that contain a word you know you over use, and so on. The “Search Results” tab is itself really just a special type of search collection—it will always show the results of the most recent search—even after you close and reopen the project.
To delete a collection of any kind, just select its tab and then click on the “-” button in the “Collections” bar. Deleting a collection has no effect on its constituent documents—they are not deleted and remain in their place in the binder.
There’s lots you can do with collections—or you don’t have to use them at all. Like most things in Scrivener, they are available if you need them but can be ignored if you don’t.
Let’s unlock the editor now. Click on the icon in the header view again and this time de-select “Lock in Place”. You can also click on the “Collections” icon in the toolbar to hide the collections pane if you want.

Now it’s on to “Part 3”. Expand the “Part 3” folder if it is collapsed, and then click straight on “Step 14: Importing”.