Keep all books of a series in a single project

Many advantages

• shared Research and images across books
• bookmarking early documents in a later book for easy reference
• consistent styles, compile formats, and template sheets
• consistent values and color-coding for Label, Status, Keyword, and other metadata
• one Aeon Timeline sync for all books
• omnibus or single book compiles from the same project
• project targets can apply to one book OR to the omnibus
• if you want a “landmark” snapshot of the project after finishing a book, you can rename and/or move a Zip backup to an archival folder

The downside is a larger project, but

• text (even a million words) takes relatively little storage
• cloud services sync changes, not everything
• syncing a Zip backup is a total sync, but that's not a problem if Research doesn't get too fat
• storage-intensive Research can go elsewhere — in Evernote or Notion, for instance

My Process

Binder structure

• [ ] Compile group folders in Front/Back Matter need the same name as the corresponding folder in the Draft/Manuscript. (More on that later.)