Related: Metadata for Files on a Hard Drive

File Metadata in macOS

Scrivener Metadata

Purpose

• Use any metadata field except icons to search, sort, and organize a project.

Everything but writing is metadata

• document title
• standard icons for document types (folder, text, Template sheets, text with subdocuments, etc)
• custom icons (flatscreen TV for images, thought cloud for epigraphs)
• Label: allows color-coded title backgrounds, icons, etc
• Status
• Inspector & Outline metadata
  • standard: available in any project
  • custom: created by the user
• word count
• keywords