Contents
No feature exists to pad this list. Each one answers a question a novelist actually asks mid-draft, usually at eleven at night, usually about chapter twelve.
Part One
Every board is a different lens over the same scenes. Write once; see it as chapters, as subplots, as a timeline, as a continuous read, with nothing duplicated, and with nothing to keep in sync.
Your chapters as a drag-and-drop board. Word counts and status on every card; column view for pacing, row view for deep reading.
One scene on many columns at once: a column per subplot, per character arc, per beat sheet. Watch your threads interleave.
Give scenes story-time dates that can differ from chapter order. Verify chronology; build dual or flashback timelines.
Unlimited nested hierarchy — Part, Chapter, Scene, Note — when you want the bird’s-eye tree.
Mirrors any board’s order and renders its scenes as one continuous, editable flow. Read it the way your reader will.
Open any scene and see every placement at once. “Chapter 3, the Revenge arc, June 15,” and reassign from one menu.
Add an already-written scene to a new board without duplicating it. A badge shows everywhere it lives.
Deleted scenes are recoverable and restore to their original positions on every board.
Full-text search that runs on your machine and works offline, with ranked, stemmed, phrase queries, scoped or across novels.
Part Two
Pick a character, location, or item to track and every scene that mentions it appears on its board automatically, with nicknames included. The Codex adds a profile, aliases, co-mention rankings, and a presence histogram: mentions per chapter, in manuscript order. The moment someone slips out of the story, the gap is visible.
Avatar, role, age, bio, and aliases that feed the auto-matching, so that “Liz” links to Elizabeth.
Type @ in prose to link scenes, characters, locations, boards, even other novels, with typeahead.
The Connections panel shows everything that points here, split into “in the manuscript” vs “in your notes.”
Cross-linked notes for people, places, and lore, with wikilinks and a quick switcher.
Who shares scenes with whom, ranked — useful when a subplot quietly becomes the main plot.
One shortcut, one search box, allows you to jump to any scene, note, board, or character without leaving the keyboard.
Part Three
The editor disappears when you’re in flow and helps when you’re not. Four immersion modes, one keystroke away.
Zen drops you into fullscreen with no chrome at all. Typewriter keeps your cursor centered on the page. Focus gently fades everything but the passage you’re working on. Line highlight keeps your place on long editing passes.
Smart quotes done properly in 20+ locales — English curly quotes, French guillemets, German low-high, Japanese corner brackets — applied automatically as you type. Full RTL support. Your published page deserves better than straight quotes.
Each manuscript carries its own typeface, page width, environment, and toolbar. The cozy mystery and the space opera don’t have to share a desk.
Choose exactly which tools float over selected text — whole groups or one by one. Shortcuts always work, even for hidden tools.
Revision → scene → chapter → book, locale-aware (CJK counted correctly), with selection counts in the toolbar.
Part Four
Words, time, scenes, or chapters — daily, weekly, monthly, or by a deadline. Set per-day effort levels, schedule vacations without breaking your streak, and when you miss a Tuesday the remaining work redistributes across future days instead of guilt-tripping you. Sprints are built in for when you need 25 loud minutes.
Part Five
Named, point-in-time versions of the whole novel. Restoring one snapshots the present first, so that even the undo has an undo.
Keep multiple takes of one scene side by side. Promote, duplicate, and name them as drafts evolve.
Structural and text diffs, formatting-aware, with per-author attribution, so you can see exactly what changed and who changed it.
Your novel lives on your machine and syncs across devices when connected. Write through the outage; reconcile later.
Saving is constant and versioned. Closing the laptop mid-sentence is a save.
See every signed-in device with live sync status, and revoke one remotely if the old laptop walks away.
Part Six
Drag a Word file in: headings become chapters, formatting survives — bold, tables, images, footnotes — with a live preview to tune the split.
Export one chapter, one subplot, or one subtree as a clean .docx with a cover page. Send a beta reader just the prologue.
Built-in and personal starting structures. Clone one and skip the blank-page setup.
Invite by email with viewer, commenter, or editor roles. Permissions are server-enforced, so a commenter literally cannot alter your prose.
Inline comment threads with reactions and resolution, so that feedback stays attached to the sentence it’s about.
Native app on macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus the web app. One account, no lock-in.
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