Feature Ideas

There is a feature that Google Docs has where you can create a "bookmark" that links to a specific part of the document (that doesn't necessarily have to be a heading) and allows you to put it in other parts of the doc (like if a character is mentioned and you want to link to that character's section of the doc). I used this a lot for my worldbuilding docs and I'd really like this feature over here too!

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.

Allow writers to manage custom dictionaries to include / exclude specific words from spell check.

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?).

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.

I primarily write in the Google Docs App on mobile/tablet, so that’s the kind of experience I’d be looking for in a substitute.I write almost every day and collaborate frequently with an editor and would really like to find an alternative to google.I was hoping this would be it, but without a robust mobile option, I just don’t know if this will be the best fit.

✅ Support writing offline 🚧 Support offline navigation 🚧 Support offline merging 🚧 Support offline version history 🚧 Support offline doc / draft creation

A timeline creation tool to help organize key plot events, worldbuilding, and planning.

I always, always use the same formatting for all my documents. I like my headers a specific, way, I like my body font justified, etc. It would be really nice to have a way to set your personalized default fonts, alignment, preferences so I don't have to reformat all the time.

Similar were a smaller version of the character relationship template with multiple versions of the first part with family links added so decendancy and relationships between characters is easy to track and I don't forgot a cousin.

Okay, so I know this might sound a little silly, but with everyone jumping ship on the "official" NaNoWriMo people and the website potentially not long for this world, having some place to have some sort of goal setter (where it keeps track of word counts, tallies per day progress, etc etc) would be really amazing. I know it's not like a priority or anything, I just feel like it's something that really helps me stay motivated to continue writing at more regular rates as a visual person being able to see how much I've done. Edit : Mainly thought of this now as I basically stress test the nano system to see all the bugs in it that annoy me, please make sure that we can log negative numbers for days when we edit? Because as far as I can tell, Nano doesn't actually let you subtract from your total, only add.

It would be fun to be able to add a cover or thumbnail to our documents as a way to quickly tell apart our projects on the dashboard at a glance, especially for some of us pantsers who wait about titling our works until we're almost finished.

An interactive board for story plotting. Writers could map out plot threads, characters, worldbuilding details etc. in a visual "whiteboard" tailored specifically for storytelling.

Make it easier to insert symbols, special characters, and emoji in the text editor.

The current right-side menu allows a user only to have one of said menus open at a given time, and I currently find this very tedious when switching between outline and format, which I do quite often because of how I like to organize longer pieces. It would be incredibly convenient to be able to be able to have more than one menu open at the same time, or at least make switching between them faster (ie having keyboard shortcuts, or small buttons like the light/dark mode toggle at the bottom of each menu, so that you don't have to go back to the main menu every single time) A different way to implement this would be to add the left-side draft menu to the list of right-side menus, and allow users to choose which menus they want to open on both sides of the screen, which would let a user like me have both outline and format open while working on a draft. This idea is inspired by various graphic design programs such as Photoshop and Medibang, where the user can drag and drop different menus into different places, including on top of each other, where then those menus are more quickly accessible and customizable to the user. A simplified version of that sort of functionality would make navigating and editing a draft much more streamlined.