| Book (or project) |
One novel, story or campaign: a folder of files. |
| Template |
What a new book starts with: a novel, a short story, a D&D campaign, or blank. Everything in it can be changed afterwards. |
| Chapter |
The unit you write in: one file. A book may call its chapters something else, such as sessions. |
| Part |
A named group of chapters. Optional. |
| On the side |
Chapters kept outside the reading order, with their text intact. |
| Write |
Where you write chapters. |
| Story |
Where you plan. It has two halves, Plot and World. |
| Plot |
The story’s events: the outlines and the timeline. |
| World |
Who and where: the book’s pages, by kind. |
| Outline |
A plan you can rearrange; there can be many. |
| Main outline |
The outline marked Main. Its sections are the timeline’s columns. |
| Section |
A heading in an outline: a column on the board. |
| Card |
An item in an outline. |
| Detail |
Something inside a card. |
| Timeline |
Every outline side by side, one row each. |
| Storyline |
An outline as a row on the timeline. |
| Line up |
Say that a section of one storyline happens at the same time as a moment of another. |
| Set aside |
An outline moved out of the way, off the timeline, without deleting anything. |
| Page |
A character, a place, a note, or a page of any other kind. |
| Kind of page |
A sort of page the book keeps, with its own folder: characters, places and notes, or one of your own, such as factions. |
| Relationship |
How one page connects to another, in your words: “Aunt of Ilka”. |
| Tags |
Your own words for grouping pages, such as “Varga family”. |
| References |
Pages kept beside the page you’re writing. |
| Version |
How a file was earlier, kept so you can go back. |
| Backup |
A copy of the whole book, kept in a folder you choose. |
| Export |
The whole book as one file. |
