Revision and Issues
Revising a book means tracking concerns — "fix the pacing in chapter 3," "Olga's motivation is weak here," "rewrite this dialogue." Instead of scattering those across paper, chat messages to yourself, and memory, Writer Studio gives them a single visible home, connected to your manuscript. This is a writing aid, not a project-management tool: no due dates, assignees, priorities, or boards.
Issues
An issue (Russian: «замечание») is a concern you write down and attach to part of your book. It is just free text — that is enough.
- Attach an issue to a scene, chapter, part, the book, or a story entity (a character, location, or plotline).
- Add it in one action from wherever you are — the editor, the structure tree, or a wiki entry: right-click it in the Book Wiki, or click Add issue in its Properties.
- Each issue points back to its anchor, so you can jump straight to the thing it is about.
Issues or notes
A quick thought about what to fix is an issue too — write it down, and resolve or dismiss it later. Material you want to keep about a scene, chapter, or entry without ever marking it done belongs in a note linked to that item instead.
One home for everything unresolved
The Issues panel shows every open issue across the project in one list. Filter it by anchor (a chapter, an entity) or by type, and select any item to jump to where it lives.
Filters follow your structure: filtering by a chapter shows items anchored to that chapter and its scenes; items on a part, the book, or an entity show up under their own filters.
Resolving issues
You control the lifecycle. Nothing closes an issue on its own — not the app, not the AI.
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Resolve | Marks the issue done and removes it from the active view |
| Dismiss | Sets it aside without losing it |
| Defer | Snoozes it from the active view for now |
| Reopen | Brings a resolved or dismissed issue back, with its text intact |
A typical pass: open an item, jump to its scene, fix the text as a normal edit, then mark the item resolved.
Resolving an issue and accepting a change are different things: accept/reject applies to AI suggestions (proposed changes to your text), not to issues. An issue is something you decide is handled — see AI Assistant.
Where revision lives
Issues are your content. They travel with the project folder, survive a database rebuild, and are covered by Backup and whole-project restore. Trashing a scene hides its issues from the default view without deleting them; restoring the scene brings them back (see Safety).
Language and spelling findings from Proofreading land in this same Issues home, clearly marked by where they came from — never a second list.
See also: Item properties | Proofreading | Search | Safety