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Manuscript
Your book, as you write it: parts, chapters and scenes on the left, the scene you’re writing on the right. Every scene is a plain text file, so your words are always yours.
The sidebar shows the whole book: its title page, front matter, parts, chapters and scenes, its back matter, and the Stash. Each scene has a status (outline, draft, revised or final), a live word count and, if you like, a one-line synopsis. Click a scene to write in it. Drag scenes, chapters and parts to put them in a new order, and the book follows. Press ⌘F to find any words in the whole book, and step from match to match.
The editor is made for prose: a comfortable serif page, with italics and bold, block quotes and scene breaks, and your system’s spelling checker. Write two scenes side by side, go full screen in focus mode, or keep a live preview of the finished pages beside the one you’re writing. Every change waits for you to save, and every save is kept as a version of the whole book.
Nothing in a manuscript is ever thrown away by accident. Scenes you take out go to the Stash, ready to bring back. A rewrite can sit beside the original until you choose between them. And a deleted scene goes to the Trash, from where it can come straight back into the book.
In Manuscript
- Parts, chapters and scenes Build the book from scenes, group them into chapters and parts, and drag anything to a new place.
- Writing in the editor A quiet page for prose, with the styles a manuscript needs, your spelling checker, and your choice of font and size.
- Find Find a word or a phrase anywhere in the book, unsaved writing included, and step through every match from scene to scene.
- The Title Page The book’s and author’s details in one form, with a live preview of the manuscript’s front page.
- Status, synopses and targets Mark each scene outline, draft, revised or final, give it a one-line synopsis, and give chapters word targets.
- The Stash Take scenes, chapters and parts out of the book without losing them, and bring them back when they fit.
- Split and combine Split a scene in two at the cursor, or run two scenes together, with Undo taking either back whole.
- Two scenes side by side Read one scene while you write another, or work on both, each with its own text, undo and place.
- Focus mode Full screen, nothing but the text, and every paragraph but the one you’re writing faded back.
- Live preview The finished pages beside the one you’re writing, laid out exactly as a build would, updated as you type.
- Alternative drafts Try a rewrite of a scene beside the original, compare them, and use whichever you choose, without losing the other.
- Today’s writing A highlighter-pen tint on everything you’ve written or rewritten today, and today’s words for the scene.
- Revision heat The sidebar tinted from cool to warm by how often each scene has been revised, over the time you choose.
- Starting a book A new book in one step, with its first scene, its Story Bible and notes, and four ways to build it.
- Series Several books in one series, sharing one Story Bible and one history, with a click to switch between them.