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When you sign in, you start on an empty workspace. The layout has three areas side by side: the Binder on the left, the Editor in the middle, and the Inspector on the right.
Create your first manuscript by clicking the + button at the top of the Binder panel. Give it a name. Then click the scene icon inside the manuscript to add your first scene. Click the scene title to open it in the Editor and start writing.
The app saves automatically as you type. There is no Save button and nothing to click. If you close the tab mid-paragraph and come back, your work is there.
The Binder is the left sidebar. It holds your manuscript's structure: folders (for chapters or parts) and scenes.
Click the + icon next to a manuscript or folder to add a scene. Use the folder icon to add a chapter folder. Drag scenes into folders to organise them.
Drag scenes or folders up and down the list to reorder them. The Binder order is the order they export in, so get it right before you compile.
Double-click a scene or folder name to rename it inline.
Right-click a scene for the context menu. Deletion is permanent. There is no undo. Take a snapshot first if you're unsure.
You can have more than one manuscript in the Binder. They're listed at the top level. Click a scene in any manuscript to switch to it.
The Editor is a standard rich-text editor. Click to place your cursor, type to write. It works the way you'd expect from any word processor.
The toolbar above the editor has two rows. The first row covers the basics: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, heading levels (H1–H3), bullet list, numbered list, blockquote, and a horizontal rule. The second row has extended options: font family, text colour, alignment, superscript, subscript, images, scene separator, and drop cap.
The editor saves to the database 500ms after you stop typing. The word count in the status bar updates in real time. You don't need to do anything.
Click the split icon in the topbar to open a second editor panel side by side. Each panel can show a different scene. Useful when you need to refer to an earlier scene while writing a later one.
Standard shortcuts work: Ctrl+B bold, Ctrl+I italic, Ctrl+Z undo. A full list is in the Keyboard shortcuts section of this guide.
Three optional modes change how the editor behaves. Find them in Settings (the gear icon in the topbar).
Keeps the line you're currently typing centred vertically on screen. Instead of the text growing downward, the page scrolls so your cursor always sits at the same height. The thin blue accent line across the editor shows where that point is.
Some writers find this faster because it removes the temptation to scroll back and re-read. Others find it disorienting. Worth trying for a session before deciding.
Dims every paragraph except the one your cursor is in. The rest of the text fades to low opacity. The idea is to stop you from re-reading earlier paragraphs while you're still drafting. If it feels like writing in a void, turn it off.
Switches the editor from a full-width layout to a white page on a grey background, 6 inches wide with standard margins. Gives you a realistic sense of how long scenes are on an actual printed page. All themes (dark, light, sepia) still apply.
Most formatting options are in the second toolbar row. They apply to selected text or the current paragraph.
Choose from a list of fonts. The choice carries through to exported PDFs. For fiction, picking one font and sticking to it throughout the manuscript is the standard approach.
Click the colour swatch to open a palette. Select a colour to apply it to the highlighted text. Click the swatch again to close the palette. Use sparingly.
Left, centre, right, or justify. Applies to the current paragraph. For most prose, left-aligned is the default.
Select text, then click the button. Useful for chemical formulas, footnote numbers entered manually, or anything else that needs it.
Places your cursor at the beginning of a paragraph, then click the drop cap button. The first letter gets enlarged and floated left, like the opening letter in a printed book chapter. One per scene is usually the right amount.
Inserts a * * * divider at the cursor. Standard use is for scene breaks within a chapter, rather than using blank lines. The separator renders as a centred decorative break and exports correctly to EPUB and PDF.
The image tool accepts URLs only. Paste a URL pointing to an image hosted online. Local file upload for images is planned for a future version.
Revision marks let you colour-code text by editing round. There are five rounds, each with a distinct colour: blue (round 1), orange (round 2), green (round 3), red (round 4), and purple (round 5).
Select text and click the revision icon in the toolbar to assign a round. On a second pass through the manuscript you might apply Round 2 marks, so you can see at a glance which sections were touched in which pass.
Select the text and choose "Clear Revision Mark" from the same toolbar dropdown.
The "Hide Revisions" toggle in the toolbar makes all revision marks invisible so you can read clean text. The marks are still stored; they just don't show. Toggle it back to bring them back.
Select the text where you want the footnote marker, then click the footnote button in the toolbar. A superscript number appears at that position, and an entry appears in the footnotes panel at the bottom of the editor.
Click in the footnotes panel to type the footnote text. Footnotes are numbered in sequence from the start of the scene.
To delete a footnote, click the trash icon next to its entry in the panel. The superscript marker in the text is removed at the same time.
A scene link is a piece of text that links to another scene in the same manuscript. Select some text, click the chain icon in the toolbar, and a picker lists all your scenes. Click one to create the link.
Linked text shows in the accent colour with an underline. If the target scene is later deleted, the link turns red and shows as broken until you remove or update it.
Scene links work well in non-linear narratives where one scene explicitly references another, or in non-fiction where you cross-reference sections.
Select the linked text and click the "Remove link" option in the chain icon dropdown.
Open Find/Replace with Ctrl+F, or the search icon in the toolbar. The bar slides in at the top of the editor.
Finds matches in the current scene. Use the arrow buttons to step through each match, or hit Enter.
Toggle "All scenes" to search every scene in the manuscript at once. Results appear in a panel grouped by scene. Click any result to jump to that scene and highlight the match.
Type in the Replace field and click Replace (one at a time) or Replace All. Replace All applies to all matches in the current scope. Double-check your search term before clicking Replace All on a cross-scene search.
The Inspector is the right sidebar. On desktop, click the Inspector button in the topbar to show or hide it. Hiding it gives you more horizontal space for writing. On mobile, the Inspector slides in as an overlay.
The Inspector has four tabs.
Shows metadata for the current scene: title, synopsis, status (Draft, Revising, Final, etc.), a notes field, and any linked Codex entries. The synopsis is useful when reviewing structure in the Outliner. The Status field helps track which scenes still need work during revision.
Lists all inline comments in the current scene. Click a comment to jump to that text. Use comments for revision notes to yourself, or for feedback from beta readers when sharing is enabled.
Snapshots are manual saves of a scene at a specific point in time. Click "Take Snapshot" to save the current state. Click any snapshot to view or restore it.
Take a snapshot before any major rewrite. If the rewrite goes wrong, you can restore to the previous version without losing work.
Text-to-speech settings for the current scene, including voice selection and timestamped annotation tools. See the TTS Playback section for details.
The Codex is a reference database for the people, places, and objects in your story. Open it with the Codex button in the topbar. It slides in as a panel on the right side of the screen.
It's most useful once you have more than five or six named characters and start forgetting details you established earlier: eye colour, job title, the name of a character's brother. Put it in the Codex and you won't have to search back through scenes to find it.
Click + Character, + Location, or + Object to create a new entry. Each type has a default set of fields. Characters get Name, Role, Age, Appearance, Personality, Arc, Relationships, and Notes. Locations get Name, Description, Geography, Atmosphere, and Notes.
At the bottom of any entry, click + Add Field to add a custom text field with whatever label you want. If you need a "Weapon of choice" field, add it.
Inside an entry's detail view, click "Link to Scene" to attach that entry to one or more scenes. Linked scenes appear as chips on the entry. In the Inspector's Scene tab, any Codex entries linked to the current scene show up in the Codex Mentions area.
The search box at the top of the Codex panel filters entries by name as you type. The filter buttons (Characters / Locations / Objects) narrow the list to one type.
The Outliner is a table view of your manuscript. Open it from the toolbar (the list icon). It shows every scene as a row, with columns for title, synopsis, status, and word count.
The main use is getting a structural overview: spotting which scenes have no synopsis, which are still in Draft status near the end of editing, or where the word counts feel unbalanced across chapters.
Clicking a scene title in the Outliner opens that scene in the Editor. You can edit the synopsis and status directly from the Outliner without switching to the Inspector.
To reorder scenes, use the Binder. The Outliner is read-only for sequence.
The Plot Grid is a spreadsheet-style view. Open it from the toolbar. Scenes are rows; plot threads are columns. Each cell holds a short note about what happens in that thread during that scene.
This is for stories with multiple storylines running at the same time: a main plot, a subplot, a relationship arc, a secondary character's journey. Fill in the column headers with your thread names, then fill in the cells as you work through your scene list.
Empty cells are fine. Not every scene touches every thread.
If you rename a scene in the Binder, the row label in the grid updates automatically. The grid is stored with the manuscript and persists between sessions.
The text-to-speech player reads your manuscript aloud using your browser's built-in voice engine. It uses whatever voices your operating system has installed.
Open a scene, then click the Play button in the player bar at the bottom of the screen. Playback starts from the beginning of the scene, or from wherever your cursor is if you click in the text first.
Go to Settings to pick a voice. The available voices depend on your OS and browser. On Windows you'll typically get a few Microsoft voices. On macOS you get a larger selection, including some higher-quality options you can download.
Use the speed control in the player bar. 1.0x is normal reading speed. 1.5x works well for catching flow problems without losing meaning.
As playback runs, the current word is highlighted in the editor. Reading and listening at the same time surfaces awkward phrasing much faster than reading alone.
In the Inspector's TTS tab, you can add timestamped notes during playback. Press the annotation button while listening to mark that moment in the audio. These notes are tied to a specific position in the playback timeline.
The Goals bar sits below the editor. It shows your daily word count progress against the target you set in Settings.
Set a daily word count in Settings. The progress bar fills as you write during the day. It resets at midnight. Setting it to 0 turns off the daily goal tracker.
Set a total word count for the whole manuscript, for example 80,000 for a novel. The project progress bar shows how close you are to that number across all scenes.
Click the stats icon in the topbar to open the full statistics view. This shows per-scene word counts, overall totals, average scene length, and your writing streak.
Writing any amount on a given day, even a single sentence, keeps your streak going. The streak resets if you miss a full calendar day.
The Compile button (the download icon in the topbar) opens the export dialog.
Generates a standard EPUB 3 file you can open in any e-reader. The Binder order determines chapter order. Scene titles from the Binder become chapter headings unless you turn that off in the export options.
Generates a print-formatted PDF. Page size is 6×9 inches with standard book margins, which is a common trade paperback size.
Strips all formatting and exports clean text. Useful for pasting into other tools, running word frequency checks, or submitting to publications with specific paste-in requirements.
Manuscripts are stored in two places: locally in your browser's IndexedDB, and in the cloud. When you're signed in, changes sync automatically.
Sign in on any device and your manuscripts load from the cloud. Changes you make sync back up after each save.
If you edit the same scene on two devices without syncing in between, the app detects the conflict and asks which version to keep. It won't silently overwrite either version.
The app works offline for reading and writing. Changes sync the next time you have a connection. You can write on a plane and everything will be there when you land.
Your theme and TTS voice preference are saved to your account, not just the browser. They follow you to other devices.
Use the sign-out option in Settings. Your local data stays on the device. When you sign back in, the cloud data syncs back down.
On Mac, use Cmd instead of Ctrl.
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Bold | Ctrl+B |
| Italic | Ctrl+I |
| Underline | Ctrl+U |
| Strikethrough | Ctrl+Shift+X |
| Undo | Ctrl+Z |
| Redo | Ctrl+Shift+Z |
| Find / Replace | Ctrl+F |
| Heading 1 | Ctrl+Alt+1 |
| Heading 2 | Ctrl+Alt+2 |
| Heading 3 | Ctrl+Alt+3 |
| Bullet list | Ctrl+Shift+8 |
| Ordered list | Ctrl+Shift+7 |
| Blockquote | Ctrl+Shift+B |
| Toggle Inspector | Ctrl+Shift+I |
The editor saves 500ms after each pause in typing, straight to IndexedDB in your browser. If you close a tab mid-sentence, at most you lose the last half-second of work.
Not yet. The export dialog compiles the full manuscript. Per-scene export is on the roadmap.
There's no undo for deletion. Take snapshots before major structural changes, especially if you're reorganising the Binder.
Beta reader sharing is partly built and is on the roadmap for the next release. It's not available in the current version.
The voices come from your OS. On Windows, install additional voices through Windows Language Settings. On macOS, go to System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content to download higher-quality voices. The difference between the default and a downloaded voice is significant.
There's no hard limit. Each manuscript is a separate record.
Not yet. Images are URL-only in the current version. Local file upload is planned.
The theme is saved to your account via the cloud. If it reverted, check your internet connection was active when you changed it. If you were offline, the preference may not have synced.
Status is just a label for your own tracking. Draft means you wrote it but haven't revisited it. Revising means you're actively working through it. Final means you're done with it for now. You can use whatever workflow these map onto for you.
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