Feature Ideas

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.

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

✅ 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.

it would be nice to be able to upload our own fonts! i for example use PT Serif almost exclusively, and it's a little jarring to be forced to use one of the built-in ones :)

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.

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.

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

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.

We can create drafts, but so far it seems like all drafts are just listed in a random order? It'd be great if we could drag and drop drafts in the left-side dropdown to organize them.

I love the addition of the POV check, and think a tense checker would be even more beneficial as it would be used by a wider range of people (not everyone changes POVs, but so many people struggle with keeping tense). As a beta reader, it's probably one of the most common correction I make. I believe it would also be a make-or-break feature for some, since again, it's something almost all my writer friends struggle with.

Footnotes and/or endnotes are super useful, whether you're writing an academic paper or writing fiction with fantasy elements that need notating.

I draw on top of writing cos I like to suffer creatively twice. And I have a lot of homemade tools for protecting my art against AI scraping (random noise, low opacity image overlays, math etc) but there aren't a lot of similar tools for protecting my writing against AI scraping especially after it's published/posted somewhere else. When I was sharing via Googledocs, what I'd do is at every scene break, I'd just have a paragraph of nonsense written in white type. That way the nonsense-writing was invisible to the average reader but any AI scanning my work would read it as part of the novel. I'd love to have a feature that lets me select an "invisible font" that will always match the background color. Or just always have a color option in each theme that's the same color as the background. Or maybe have a way to have words randomly selected in a document. Then have the option to have those selected words converted to an image-format instead of a font format (so that an AI program would only be able to "read" fragments of writing) Idk how practical it is to make these features...they'd be cool