Plan your book with the Planner

The Planner shows your whole book as chapter cards. Each card has the chapter's title, its word count and a short note from you about what happens in it. The Planner does not use AI and costs no credits.

Open and close the Planner

• Click Planner in the Manuscript | Planner switch at the top of the window.
• Or press ⌘⇧P (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows). You can also choose View → Show Planner.
• Click Manuscript to go back to writing.

Write what a chapter is for

1. 1Click a card. It opens as a larger sheet.
2. 2Click the description. An empty one says What happens in this chapter?
3. 3Type a sentence or two. There is no save button: it saves as you go.
4. 4Press Esc or click outside the sheet to close it.

To jump into the chapter itself, double-click the card or click Open chapter on the sheet.

Grid and Tracks

The Planner layout switch at the top has two choices.

• Grid lays the chapters out in reading order, so you can see the shape of the book at once.
• Tracks puts the cards in rows. Use a track for a storyline or a character, so you can follow one thread through the book. Cards with no track sit in a row called Untracked.

Make a track

1. 1Switch to Tracks.
2. 2Click New track at the right of the strip above the cards.
3. 3Type a name and confirm.
4. 4To put a chapter on it, open the card, find Track, and pick the track. Pick Untracked to take it off again.

Each track row has a small menu to rename or delete it. Drag a track's name to change the order of the rows, or use the arrow to collapse a row.

Rearrange

• Drag a card left or right to change where that chapter sits in the book. This changes the real order in your binder too.
• In Tracks, drag a card up or down to move it to another track. That changes only its track.

A new, empty book shows one sample card and a New chapter button. Every chapter you write appears in the Planner in order.