Documents

Documents is where writing that does not belong to the Manuscript lives — story bibles, plot notes, reference material.

Creating pages in Documents

Create them from the Create new menu in the Documents tab. The same menu sits in the header of the Documents table that All in the sidebar opens.

• Page: Creates an empty document page.
• Table template: Pick Synopsis, Treatment, Length plan, Foreshadowing tracker, Weekly plan, or Basic table, and start from a page with the table already in place.
• Canvas: Creates a page where you lay out cards and connectors freely to draw relationship maps and flowcharts. (See Canvas.)
• Folder: Creates a folder to hold pages.
• Import: Upload a file and bring it in as a document. (See Importing.)

Renaming, duplicating, and deleting pages

Press ⋯ next to a page to open these options — the same in the sidebar and in the tables under All, and for manuscript pages too.

• Rename: Changes the page name.
• Duplicate: Makes a copy named after the original with Copy at the end; an untitled page's copy is named Copy. A Documents page's copy sits right above the original. A manuscript page's copy is a Documents page and lands at the top of Documents.
• Move: Sends the page into a folder or a manuscript. From a manuscript page, Move › Document moves it to the Documents tab.
• Delete: Sends the page to the Archive, where it can be restored.

Organizing with folders

Keep related pages together in a folder. Folders work in both the Manuscript and Documents. Drag a page in or out of a folder, or take it out with Move › Top level in the page's ⋯ menu. In the Documents table under All, drag pages and folders into the order you want.

A folder's ⋯ menu renames it (Rename) or deletes it (Delete). Deleting a folder deletes the pages inside it too, and they can be restored from the Archive.

Sorting

In the Documents table under All, the sort button on a column header sorts by that column, and the × beside it clears the sort. Each sidebar list keeps its own order, set in the Sidebar group of Settings > Display: Document order (Default or Recently updated), Manuscript tab order (By number, By number (reverse), or Recently updated), and World node order (Default or Recently updated).

View all

Press All in the sidebar to open Documents as a page list on one screen, one row per page, with title and date. The Manuscript works the same way. Use it to scan everything at once, or to select several pages and move, delete, or export them together.

• The number of items inside a folder appears next to its name, so you can tell a collapsed folder's size too. In the Manuscript, a chapter's page count appears in the same spot.
• Tick a folder and everything inside comes with it — the folders under it and their pages — so a count you act on is the count that moves.
• The checkbox at the top of the table selects every row. With pages selected, Move in the bar that appears puts them into a folder or a manuscript; in the Manuscript table it sends them back to Documents or into another manuscript.

Editing a table

A table is edited right in the page — one that came with a table template, or one you put in with Add table in the editor toolbar. A table template page is an ordinary page once created, and the agent reads its tables like the rest of the text.

• Click a cell and ⋯ appears above its column and to the left of its row. Press the ⋯ above the column for a menu with Add column left, Add column right, Delete column, Set as header column, and Delete table; press the ⋯ left of the row for Add row above, Add row below, Delete row, Set as header row, and Delete table. A header column or row turns back with Unset header column or Unset header row in the same menu.
• Drag across several cells, or right-click a cell (long-press on a phone), to Merge cells or Split cell — whichever applies there.