Outline

The plan of your story: beats, turns and ideas, nested as deeply as you like, each linked to the scenes that tell it.

An outline item has a title, notes as long as you need, and links to its scenes. Items you haven’t written yet are marked unwritten, so the gaps in a draft are easy to see; written ones show how many scenes tell them. From any scene in the Manuscript, its header shows which outline items it tells.

Switch the outline to the plotline grid to see each thread of the story against the book’s chapters: where a thread runs, where it goes quiet, and which chapters carry what. Drag a beat to another chapter to move it there. Nothing extra is stored: the grid is worked out from the outline and the book every time, so moving a scene moves its beats.

In Outline

Items, notes and scenes Nest the beats of your story as deeply as you like, write notes on each, and link each to the scenes that tell it.
The plotline grid Every thread of the story against every chapter of the book, worked out from the outline, with beats you can drag to a new chapter.
Plotlines Named, coloured plotlines for the grid’s rows, for outlines organised by act or by chapter rather than by thread.