Standalone notes vs. manuscript documents

Notes hold research and world-building alongside your manuscript, without counting toward its word count or appearing in exports.

Your manuscript tree is for the book itself: chapters, sections, and scenes that make up the actual draft. Notes are separate on purpose.

A standalone note open in its own editor, separate from the manuscript tree.

What notes are for

Anything that supports the manuscript without being part of it: world-building details, research, timelines, style decisions you want to stay consistent about, or a running list of questions to resolve later. A note uses the same rich-text editor as a chapter, but doesn’t count toward your manuscript’s word count.

Finding your notes

Opening the Notes section without a note selected shows every note in the project as a card, with the first few lines of each one and when it was last edited. Select a card to open it.

Creating a note

From the Notes section in the sidebar, select New Note, give it a title, and start writing. The same button sits on the notes overview.

Research you’ve already written elsewhere can come in as a file instead. The same + button offers Import from a file…, which creates one note per top-level heading in the file. See Importing an existing manuscript.

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