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Application interface

Overall layout

┌────────────────────────────── Toolbar ──────────────────────────────┐
├─── Activity Bar ───┬──────── Editor Area ────────┬─── Right Panel ──┤
│                    │                              │                  │
│   Left Panel       │   Tabs + Content             │   Tools          │
│                    │                              │                  │
└────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────┘
                               Status Bar

Toolbar

Sits at the top of the window. It includes:

  • Project menu — open, create, or jump to recent projects
  • Book switcher — pick the active book in the project
  • Share — publish a book (the button appears when a book is open)
  • Export — open the export dialog (the button appears when a book is open)
  • Focus mode — hide everything except the editor
  • Toggle left panel / Toggle right panel — visibility buttons for the side panels

Settings open via the gear icon at the bottom of the Activity Bar, or with Cmd+,.

Double-clicking an empty area of the toolbar maximizes/restores the window (on macOS).

Activity Bar

A narrow vertical strip of icons on the left or right side of the workspace. It opens tool panels:

Icon Tool
Explorer Book structure tree
Search Full-text search across the book
Characters Character list and cards
AI Copilot Chat, knowledge, and facts
Properties Properties of the selected element
Statistics Progress, daily streak, goals
Snapshots Scene snapshots
Version history Project Git history

The bottom of the left Activity Bar always shows: the support icon, Settings (opens the settings window), and the Account button (visible when the platform module is enabled).

Right-click an icon to move it to the left or right side, or hide it. Hidden tools are reachable via the "..." button at the end of the bar.

Some tools only appear when a scene is open (Snapshots) or a specific module is enabled (Version history).

Left and right panels

Both panels work the same way: each shows the tool selected in the Activity Bar. You can hide panels with the toolbar buttons or keyboard shortcuts.

Any tool can be moved from the left panel to the right (and vice versa) via the Activity Bar context menu.

Editor area

The central work zone. Supports tabs and split mode.

Tabs

  • Each open scene, chapter, or tool appears in its own tab
  • Right-click a tab: close, close others, close all
  • Drag tabs to reorder them

Split mode

The editor area can be split into multiple panes (up to four at once):

Action Description
"Editor: Split right" Split the active pane vertically
"Editor: Split down" Split the active pane horizontally
"Editor: Close pane" Close the current pane

Switching between panes:

Command Description
"Editor: Focus left pane" Move focus left
"Editor: Focus right pane" Move focus right
"Editor: Focus top pane" Move focus up
"Editor: Focus bottom pane" Move focus down

All commands are available through the Command palette.

Drag a tab from one pane to another to move it.

Status Bar

Sits at the bottom of the window. Sections, left to right:

Left side (always shown):

  • Application version
  • Update banner (appears when an update is available)
  • Backup indicator
  • AI autocomplete indicator (clickable — toggles on/off)
  • Spelling check indicator (clickable — shows status)

Center (conditional): appears only when there's something to show:

  • Streak icon with day count — when the streak is greater than 0 days
  • Daily goal progress as a percentage — when a goal is set
  • Session timer with word count — when a session is active (after the first word is typed)

Right side (always shown):

  • Word count for the current document
  • A colored dot for save status (green — saved, other colors — saving)

Focus mode (Zen Mode)

Hides the Activity Bar, both side panels, and the status bar — leaving only the editor.

  • Enter: the "Focus mode" toolbar button or the command palette → "Focus mode"
  • Exit: Escape or the "Exit focus mode" button at the bottom of the screen

Command palette

Universal search and navigation. Open it with:

  • Cmd+P / Ctrl+P — Quick open mode: search scenes and chapters
  • Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P — Commands mode: list all application commands

In Quick open mode, type > to switch to Commands mode (and remove > to switch back).

Command categories

Category Examples
File New project, Open project, Export
View Toggle panels, Focus mode, Search
Structure Create act / chapter / scene, Rename
Editor Undo, Redo, Split pane
Tabs Close tab, Close all
Statistics Set goal
Action Mac Windows/Linux
Quick open Cmd+P Ctrl+P
Command palette Cmd+Shift+P Ctrl+Shift+P
Toggle left panel Cmd+B Ctrl+B
Toggle right panel Cmd+Shift+B Ctrl+Shift+B
Focus mode Cmd+K Z Ctrl+K Z
Exit focus mode Escape Escape
Search the book Cmd+Shift+F Ctrl+Shift+F
Settings Cmd+, Ctrl+,
Export (dialog) Cmd+E Ctrl+E
Quick export Cmd+Shift+E Ctrl+Shift+E
Generate structure (AI) Cmd+Shift+J Ctrl+Shift+J
AI scene review Cmd+Shift+R Ctrl+Shift+R
Close current editor pane Cmd+K W Ctrl+K W
Split editor right Cmd+\ Ctrl+\
Split editor down Cmd+K Cmd+\ Ctrl+K Ctrl+\
Focus left split pane Cmd+K Cmd+← Ctrl+K Ctrl+←
Focus right split pane Cmd+K Cmd+→ Ctrl+K Ctrl+→
Focus top split pane Cmd+K Cmd+↑ Ctrl+K Ctrl+↑
Focus bottom split pane Cmd+K Cmd+↓ Ctrl+K Ctrl+↓
Move tab left Cmd+K Shift+← Ctrl+K Shift+←
Move tab right Cmd+K Shift+→ Ctrl+K Shift+→