Every story has a shape, and it's almost impossible to see while you're deep in the words. Outline lifts you up to where the whole book is one tree — Part, Chapter, Scene, Beat — that you can rename, reorder and re-parent by dragging. Most writers feel lost at this altitude; this is the view that un-loses you.
Chapters and scenes
Manuscripts are organized into chapters, each containing one or more scenes. Use the sidebar to navigate between chapters and scenes.
Parts
For longer works, chapters can be grouped into parts. Parts are optional and can be added from the Structure section.
Front and back matter
Add title pages, dedications, acknowledgments, and other front or back matter items from the Structure section.
Scene metadata
Each scene can track point of view, location, characters, purpose tags, timeline type, and tension level. Point of view and characters are yours to set — type them in the scene's details and they stay yours; leave them and an analysis run writes them for you, and an analysis never overwrites something you typed.
Chapter classification
A chapter carries its own pacing, narrative voice, and tension plot, under Chapter Classification in the chapter's Details panel. Set them yourself — pick a pacing, name the voice, drag the tension points — or leave them, and an analysis run fills in whatever you haven't set. What you set stays put across later runs.
Outline
An editable top-down tree of your whole manuscript — parts, chapters, scenes, and beats, each level collapsible. Rename inline, add or delete at any level, and drag to reorder or re-parent across levels. This is where plotters build and reshape structure.
Beat Cards
A bottom-up board of beat cards grouped inside their scenes, led by a prominent Unplaced pool. Capture loose beats first, then place each into a scene — or spin up a new scene (or chapter and scene) right from the card. The pantser's companion to Outline; both edit the same structure.
Thread Health
A plot board of your threads by chapter, with the diagnostics no other board has. The overview draws every thread as a sparkline across the story with three facts computed straight from your manuscript — coverage, longest gap, and shape — sorted worst-first, so a dropped subplot surfaces itself. It is deterministic and needs no AI. Below it, compact beat cards you click to open and edit; click an empty cell to fill a gap right there. Filter to the threads you keep losing, and sort by worst gap or lowest coverage.
Timeline
Two tabs over your book's chronology. Dates is an entry table — every scene in reading order, with its date and timeline label editable in place, so you can build the whole timeline yourself with analysis switched off. Chronology draws it on a year axis in chronological order, with a switch to reading order and a Characters lens that lays each point-of-view character's scenes out by date group.
Read the guide: Continuity & Timeline · Read the guide: Timeline & Chronology
Character profiles
Create and manage character profiles with descriptions and aliases. The list is your record — you add, edit, and delete every entry on it, and no analysis run adds or removes one, and nothing writes into the description or notes you keep there.
Presence
Two maps of which characters are in which chapters: the one you build yourself by tagging scenes, which needs no analysis and works with AI off, and the analysis's mention-density read of the same question. Read across a row to follow one character's thread, or down a column to see a chapter's cast; chapter numbers are links, so you can open a chapter and check whether a gap is deliberate.
Relationships
Character-to-character and character-to-place connections, listed alongside the characters no connection has been recorded for. Add, edit, and remove them yourself.
Location management
Define locations and link them to scenes. See which locations appear throughout your story.
Story Bible PDF
Download your cast, places, relationships, and dated chapters as one printable reference, set in your book's own style template. It is reference material built from your records, not a verdict on them, and it states how much of the book carries dates rather than implying all of it does.
Print any planning view
Print or save-as-PDF every planning view — beats, structure, characters, locations, the outline, the timeline — as clean, paginated documents, from one Print button or File → Print (⌘P) using your system’s native dialog.