Outline & structure

Acts, chapters and scenes #

Acts contain chapters, chapters contain scenes. Only scenes become editors in the Write tab — acts and chapters are structural containers.

Create a scene in the outline and it appears in the manuscript immediately, with an empty editor waiting. Rename it in either place and both update.

What a node carries #

Every row has a title, a POV or tag field, and a word target. Scenes also carry a synopsis, which is the part you can pin beside you while you write.

The small buttons add chapters or scenes beneath a node, pin it to the reference panel, or insert a custom page or element at that point in the book.

List view and card view #

The toggle at the top left switches between them, and both show the same outline.

List view is for reordering and setting targets. Card view is the corkboard: one card per scene carrying its synopsis, grouped by act and tinted by chapter. Click into an act or chapter to work on just that part.

The controls beside the toggle set card width, card height and the text size inside them, independently.

Reordering #

Drag a node by the grip on its left. Drop between nodes to reorder at the same level, or onto a parent to nest inside it. The manuscript follows — you are moving the book, not copying text.

The sidebar tree does the same thing and is often quicker for moving a chapter between acts.

Colors, flags and status #

Color a scene and its card takes a tint. It means whatever you decide — one color per POV, one per subplot, or red for scenes you know need work. None of it reaches the export.

Flags and scene status are set from the same right-click menu and show as a dot on the node, so problem areas are visible without opening anything.

Templates #

New Project offers Blank, three-act and five-part novel structures, short story, screenplay and research paper. A template pre-fills the outline so you are not staring at an empty panel.

It is a starting point, not a constraint — add, remove and reorganize freely afterwards.