Two scenes side by side

Keep one scene open beside the one you’re writing, to check what happened before, match a voice, or work on both at once.

Open Beside on a scene’s right-click menu, or an Option-click on it in the sidebar, opens it in a second editor to the right. Each side has its own header, text, undo history and cursor, and both save as usual. The sidebar marks the scene beside with a bar.

Swap trades the two sides, and × closes the one beside; its unsaved changes stay, like those of any open scene. For more room, hide the sidebar: the two editors share its width.