Outline files

An outline is a file in outlines/, written the way you might write a plan by hand:

# Main story

## Beginning

- Ilka inherits the orchard, see [The Crossing](../manuscript/the-crossing.md)
  - [Aunt Bea](../characters/bea.md) is waiting at the landing
- The gate is chained

## End

- The orchard is sold, but not for money

Markdown	On the board
# Main story	The outline’s title (optional)
## Beginning	A section: a column
- Ilka inherits…	A card
- Aunt Bea is waiting…	A detail inside the card
[The Crossing](../manuscript/the-crossing.md)	A link to a chapter, character, place or note

Lining up with another outline

A line under a section’s heading, with one link to a section of another outline, lines the two up on the timeline:

## Waiting at the landing
At the same time as [Beginning](main-story.md#beginning)

- Meets Ilka off the ferry

The words around the link are yours; Plot Device writes “At the same time as” in the book’s language. The part after # is the other section’s heading, lowercased, with spaces as - and punctuation left out. Links to chapters or pages don’t line anything up.

Plot Device changes only the lines a change needs. Anything it doesn’t show, such as a table or a quote, is kept where it is, and moves with its card.