Find in History

That sentence you cut three months ago, and now want back? Search every version of the book for it.

Type a few words, and every paragraph that ever held them shows, with the scene it was in and when it was cut. Curly quotes and italics don’t matter, and nor do capitals, unless you tick Match case; tick Whole words so that “art” doesn’t find “heart”. At first only text that’s gone is listed; a paragraph that moved to another scene counts as still there. Copy copies a passage just as it was written, and Show the Version of… opens it in Versions, beside the scene as it is now.

Lost files

Below the passages, Files no longer in the project lists every scene, note and Story Bible entry that was once saved and is gone now, even long after it left the Trash. Bring Back to the Stash returns a lost scene to the Stash; Bring Back puts a note or entry back where it was.

For text that’s still in the book, use Find ⌘F; when it finds nothing, it offers to look in the history.