Writing
The manuscript editor. Books split into parts, chapters, and scenes, with proofing built for fiction and a focus mode for long sessions.
Everything in the editor
| Feature | What it does | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Manuscript structure | Books, parts, chapters, and scenes. Title chapters by name, number, or point of view. | Scenes panel |
| Chapter headings | Number formats, unnumbered prologues and appendices with their own label, and titles by point of view. | Title options, in the margin |
| Front matter | An epigraph with its source, and a dateline for the chapter or each scene. | Front matter, in the margin |
| Drop caps | A dropped capital on the first paragraph of each chapter, each scene, or after any heading. | Style panel |
| Scene types | Idea, Draft, Revision, Done, or To Chop, each with its own mark in the navigator. | Scenes panel |
| Proofing | Spelling, grammar, and style checks with adjustable strictness. Words you add become suggestions. | Right-click menu |
| Structure views | Color the page by part of speech, sentence structure, sentence length, or repeated words. | Eye menu |
| Writing Insights | Overused words, phrase echoes, passive voice, adverbs, and dialogue tags. | Analysis panel |
| Find and replace | Search a scene, a book, or every book, with regular expressions and a heatmap. | Ctrl+F |
| Writing sprints | Race the clock, a net word count, or a total word count. | Toolbar |
| Reference lookups | Dictionary, thesaurus, and reverse dictionary for the word under the cursor. | Right-click menu |
| Research panel | Dictionary, thesaurus, etymology, usage since 1800, Wikipedia, and Project Gutenberg. | Right dock |
| Datelines | Date a chapter or each scene in your world's own calendar, or by days since the last one. | Front matter |
| Import | .md, .txt, and .docx files, split at headings into scenes. | Scenes panel |
| Export to Word | Submission format, six scene-divider styles, a title page, and a table of contents. | Toolbar |
| Sentence and Paragraph Focus | Dim everything but the sentence or paragraph you're in. | Eye menu |
| Typewriter mode | Holds the line you're typing 40% down the page. | Eye menu |
| Focus mode | Full-screen writing with a mood behind the page. | F11 |
| Mood menu | Pick a mood, lock one to a scene or a POV character, or let your rules choose and say why. Part of the mood update, in development. | Alt+M |
| Mood Board | Open any mood as a graph of nodes and change how it looks, sounds, and reacts. Part of the mood update, in development. | Moods tab |
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