Charts & tables

The Charts tab #

Charts is one of the tabs you can add from the + at the end of the tab bar. Everything you make there belongs to the project and can be placed on an entity page, pinned beside the manuscript, or included in an export.

What you can make #

Tables — a blank data grid to fill freely, or a comparison laid out side by side.

Charts — bar, line, pie and donut, a matrix laid out as a heat map, a timeline along a track, and a family tree for relationships.

Layouts — two charts side by side, or four in a 2×2 grid, when the comparison is the point.

The two that update themselves #

Character Grid builds from your Characters tab and stays in step as you add or rename people.

Pacing derives chapter read times from word counts, so it reflects the draft as it is now rather than when you made the chart. A line graph is the usual way to plot tension or emotion across acts by hand.

The Timeline tab #

Timeline is its own addable tab, for events laid along a track — a story chronology, a character's history, the years before the book starts.

It is separate from the timeline chart, which is a chart type you place inside an entity page. The tab is for the project's own chronology; the chart is for putting one inside something else.

Using a chart in your book #

Add a chart block to any entity page to place one inside a character or setting, pin it to the reference panel to keep it beside you while you write, or tick it in the Compile window's entities column to include it in an export.

A pinned chart shows a live thumbnail, so a timeline or relationship map can sit next to the scene it matters for.