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Three parts to the screen It helps to think of the editor as three columns. On the left: your manuscript. The structure of the book, top to bottom—any front matter, then the chapters with their scenes inside, then any back matter. Click a scene to open it. Eve...

The Codex button In the editor's toolbar, beside Notes, there's Codex. Click it and a rail opens on the right with the heading In this scene: every codex entry whose name or alias appears in the scene you have open, the most-mentioned first, with a small ×coun...

Write keeps formatting simple on purpose: you mark what the words mean—emphasis, a link, a line in another hand—and the page setup decides how it looks. This page covers the handful of things you'll use. The selection bar Select a few words and a small bar app...

This page shows you how to find a word or phrase—in the scene you're in, the chapter, or the whole book—and how to change it everywhere at once when a name or a spelling changes. Open the find bar Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac). A small bar floats over the top ...

This page is about the Writing and Suggesting switch at the top of the editor. In Writing, what you type goes straight into the book. In Suggesting, every change you make is marked as a suggestion instead, to be accepted or rejected later—handy when you're rev...

This page covers the ways you can make the editor comfortable to sit with for a long session: light or dark, the color of the room, a dark page to write on, and whether you see your words as the printed page or as one long column. None of this changes your boo...

This page is about Listen, which reads your book aloud a sentence at a time while you follow along. Hearing your words is one of the best ways to catch a clunky rhythm, a repeated word or a missing one—and as you listen, you can mark each spot that needs work ...

The editor has three ways of looking at your book, and you can flip between them at any time from the Write · Outline · Preview switch in the toolbar. This page explains what each is for. Screenshot: the toolbar's Work group, with the Write · Outline · Previe...