Better with every version

The first release. Everything on this website is in it:

• Visual Planner: cards for scenes, chapters, characters, places and research on an open canvas, with connections, groups and properties.
• Manuscript: a binder, editor, corkboard and outliner, split views, Composition mode, comments, footnotes, snapshots and revision colors.
• Writer Timeline: the Plot Board, Chronology, Cast Map and tension curve.
• Tasks and schedule: a task board, a calendar, a schedule with dependencies, and a Pomodoro timer.
• Compile Studio: Manuscript, Paperback, E-book and Screenplay styles, exported as PDF, Word, EPUB, HTML, Markdown, LaTeX, RTF, ODT or plain text.
• 29 templates for fiction, non-fiction, academic, student and script writing, plus demo projects.
• Import from Word, OpenDocument, RTF, Scrivener and Obsidian.
• Twelve themes, most in light and dark versions, a Theme Designer, and settings and themes you can share as files.
• AI Connections, off by default: let Claude Code or Codex on your Mac work with the open project, read-only unless you allow changes.

Writing and the editor

• The line-number gutter no longer covers the start of your text.
• Composition mode uses your chosen paper color and keeps the focus on the page.
• New format bar menus for styles, fonts, sizes, colors and lists.
• The editor side panel stays inside the window, and sections you use less start collapsed.
• HTML cards open in a color-coded code editor that can export and print.
• Convert to Note now makes a new note instead of changing the original.

Manuscript

• Larger, labeled controls in the manuscript view, inspector and sidebar.
• In a split manuscript, choosing an item in the outline opens it in the active pane.
• Show on Canvas zooms to the card and highlights it for a moment.

Canvas and Writer Timeline

• Hold Space, or drag with the middle mouse button, to pan.
• The mouse wheel zooms and trackpad scrolling pans. You can change this in Settings.
• Pinch and the ⌘ zoom keys work on the canvas and in the Writer Timeline.
• Pressing Space no longer opens the card editor by accident.

Toolbars and menus

• A new icon set across menus, toolbars and settings, with a monochrome option that applies everywhere.
• Toolbar buttons show an icon above a label, and toolbars wrap onto a second row in narrow windows.
• Right-click a toolbar to customize it, and drag items to reorder them.
• One appearance setting controls all toolbars.
• The top bar has View and Search menus, and an Alerts button that lists every task alert, with a count badge that turns orange when something is urgent.

Other improvements

• The Pomodoro timer shows its state, elapsed time and progress.
• Project search has scopes and closes with Esc.
• Trash windows have the standard window buttons.
• The Properties panel keeps its width.