Feature Ideas

Support offline document / draft creation, offline navigation, and offline writing (with graceful syncing that works well when collaborating).

We can create drafts of the main work, but there's no option to split a single, larger work into chapters (that we can then make drafts of) so that we can work and edit chapter-by-chapter.

I would love to have the concept of pages in Ellipsus. When editing a big work, I want to refer to its page number—it makes it easier to find a passage and pick up where you left off. When exporting into PDF and printing my work, I want to adjust the margins and preview it before exporting—this saves me time and gives me control over the layout (we love aesthetics, right?).

Hi Ellipsis team, I think it would be a great option to enable the ability to set a password. I find it a little arduous having to log in with a code sent to my email every time. This is the best writing software I have used for my needs so it would be great to see this feature added. Keep up the good work!

The reason I looked for any alternative at all is because it's becoming abundantly clear Google has no qualms about scraping Google Docs, even if it's "anonymized" or whatever else. It seems pretty clear from Ellipsus TOS that data submitted by the user belongs to the user and won't be used by anybody else, but I think it should be made abundantly clear in marketing, in the website itself, etc. If there's a reason people will leave the incredibly comfortable (and free) Google Docs, this is it - knowing their data is not going to be used for marketing, AI training, etc.

Here's a wild idea, what if there's a way to create a timeline builder feature for the behind-the-scenes aspects of plotting? Could be fun to help with the grander aspects of worldbuilding. Obviously, it's kind of out there, but it could be really fun to explore playing with, IMO.

I think it would be nice if there was a feature, where you could see who wrote what. I'm not talking about the suggestion feature (like in gdocs) but something similar maybe, just without the author having to accept each "change." This could be done manually if we get colors as well. But I think it would be nice, and helpful if you can just toggle something that automatically assigns you a color, or maybe creates to the left (in the margin) a little line with the author icon for a paragraph, then using a bracket symbol when it's a longer piece. I think that could really help with keeping track of who wrote what if you decide to Co-Author something.

Google Docs look to be restricting what content can be added or shared from its platform. An author (see link below) had her account locked (and is under review about whether she will get it back) because her writing contained sexually explicit content. A written guarantee in the T&Cs that writers will not be penalised due to their writing containing explicit themes (sex, trauama, abuse, violence etc) would make writers feel a lot safer about using an online tool like this. https://www.instagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO/?img_index=1

I (and many writers I know) appreciate having a native PC app. For me, it allows me to work without having reliable internet and push/share changes once I am back online. It also is beneficial to have an app that lives in my toolbar that I can open that doesn't have the option for me to get sidetracked by search windows I'd forgotten about, impulsive whims, etc. It creates a more seamless work experience all around.

It would be neat if edits made by collaborators on a document would be marked with specific colors, so it would be easy distinguish who added what.

It would be really nice to be able to embed images in the documents. I do a lot of technical writing for our company blog and we often use images to help illustrate ideas we are trying to explain

So, This is for those authors who would like to plot their stories out, perhaps on Ellipsus. Perhaps sometime in the far future, (this is definitely not an immediate thing) you could make a board where authors could connect things a la thumbtacks and string on a conspiracy board-style. Think like Jamboards in a way, but it would be much better than Jamboards in that there would be ways for an author or authors could plan notes and connections between characters and plot ideas. I know I've been looking for something akin to this for a long while, but focused on plotting, while Jamboards is not really good for that. It may be way out of the realm of what Ellipsus can or should do, but it could be something fun too.

Adding the ability to customise the profile picture would be nice, as mine was automatically assigned an old photo attached to my email address. A bit of profile customisation is always fun!

What it says on the box, sharing the folder would be so useful rather then sending individual docos

Would be great if there was some sort of back-up feature that would automatically download a copy of all of my stories. Especially if there was an additional option to only download stories that I've added to since my last back up. Or maybe just a mass download option? Let me download from the home page, with the ability to select each story that I want to download. I'm a strong believer in redundancy and it's tedious to have to download every story individually when I'd like to back things up to my own hard drive.