Anything that comes to you goes here first. Click New, write the note and keep going. Sort it later.
Ideas
Every idea gets a row, from a fragment to a premise you can say in one sentence. Move it along the stages as it firms up, and shelve freely; shelved ideas stay in the bank.
Characters
Everyone who appears in more than one scene. For the main characters, fill in the want, the need and the lie; for the rest, a role and a weight is enough. Link each person to the scenes they appear in from the Scenes tab.
Plot
The landmarks and threads live on each scene, in the Scenes tab, with views for each. This ledger tracks what the book promises: add a row the day you plant something, and mark it paid when it pays.
World
The places where more than one scene happens, and the rules the plot depends on, written or unwritten, ordinary or magic. A place earns its row when it presses on someone. Mark how under Presses by: it constrains, exposes or tempts.
Research
One row per question the book raises. Sort it by when you need the answer, and write the finding on the same row with its source. A finding is used as found, bent on purpose or kept as notes.
Notes
Thoughts about the book that belong nowhere else yet: fragments, lines of dialogue, images, questions to yourself. Link a note to the scenes and people it touches. Research findings go in Research.
Story Bible
What the draft has settled: names, dates, facts, motifs, the placeholders you use and choices of style such as tense and viewpoint. Add a row the day something becomes true in the book, and check here before you invent it twice.
Plan
The book on one page, the outline, the beats and the rounds of work that get it written. Beats hold the shape of the book, with the scenes that carry each one. A round has a finish line someone else could check, a few decision dates and an end. Write the handoff at the end of the round.
Scenes
Every scene in order, planned or drafted, with what is different at its end. Number scenes in Order (use 4.5 to slot one between 4 and 5). Mark a scene moved or cut and keep it: the record of what you tried is worth having.
Desk
What sits beside the manuscript while you draft. Log every problem in Revision Debt the moment you notice it, then go back to where you were. Leave a door note at the end of a session if it helps the next one start. The full inbox is here too.
Resources
Short tools for particular moments: naming a stall, looking up a term, closing a round and planning or reading back a single scene.
Your scenes as cards, in order. Cut scenes stay in the Scenes tab.
The round you are in, its finish line and the next date you decide how it is going.
Each column shows how many scenes it holds.