I have three novels in my writing project. Here’s how I have it set up:
I am able to fold up these elements. For example, I can fold up the novels:
I can also fold up the chapters, scenes, and passages:
When you mention “narrative view,” I’m not sure if you mean AT3’s Narrative view or the Outline view, as both show the story narrative. If you mean the actual card-based Narrative view, you might be able to use the filters function, in combination with some kind of tag or item-type scheme, to simplify things.
With the upcoming version 3.5, we’ll be able to create multiple instances of a view (called tabbed views) and customize each the way we want. So we could make two views, for example, one with the Outline view collapsed and another with everything open.
In my case, I’d like to assign each view to a button in Stream Deck, so I’m hoping for a hotkey assignment for each custom view I create.
UPDATE: I’ve just posted this as a feature request.