Starting your first project in Charc
The dashboard, the tabs, and what everything does.
Creating your account · The dashboard · Inside a project — the tab bar · The guided tour · Your first scene 2The Write tab: writing your first chapter
What the editor does, and what it deliberately doesn’t.
The editor is the whole point · Pageless view and page view · The rich text toolbar · Scenes as the unit of writing · Undo and snapshots · The reference panel · Focus mode · What’s paid · Autosave and leaving safely 3Building your story: the Outline tab
The structure that feeds everything else.
How the outline connects to the manuscript · The three node types · What’s inside a node · Drag to reorder · List view and card view · Scene colors and flags · The right-click context menu · The sidebar outline tree · Starting from a template · What’s next 4Your project's knowledge base: entity tabs, documents, and the reference panel
Build your world. Keep it at your fingertips while you write.
Everything that feeds the manuscript · Characters and setting · The block system · Text blocks and the document editor · Custom entity tabs · Pinning to the reference panel · The reference panel in full · The loop 5Tracking your draft: progress, phases, and streaks
Watch the book grow. Keep yourself honest.
The project dashboard · Draft phases · Word targets, from the book down to the scene · The daily goal and streaks · The part you don’t do 6Exporting and backing up your work
One window to publish from. One habit that protects the book.
One window · Choosing what goes in · The page design · File formats · Seeing it as a reader will · Presets · Include and Processing · The copy that isn’t for readers 7Designing the printed page: formats, typography, and chapter openings
You write the words. The format makes them a book.
A format is the whole design in one bundle · The page itself · Body typography · Chapter openings · Headers, footers, and page numbers · Scene dividers · Seeing it while you write · Formats and presets, kept straight · A word on screenplays 8Front matter and covers: the book around the book
The pages before chapter one, and the cover around all of it.
What front matter is · Built from templates, not from scratch · Putting a page into the body of the book · Covers · Print-ready means print-ready 9Writing together: coauthors, editors, and alpha readers
Who can touch what — and how their version stays separate from yours.
Inviting someone · The three roles · Writing at the same time · Comments · Their copy, beside yours · Sharing a scene with someone who has no account · The changes feed 10Bringing an existing manuscript into Charc
Your book already exists. Here’s how it moves in.
What you can bring in · How your file becomes chapters and scenes · What survives the trip · After the importLooking for something specific?
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