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.

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?).

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

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

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.

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!

A highlighter, both for general highlighting, and a way to share the highlighted text in chat so that collaborators can discuss about said highlighted text.

When presented with the merge screen with many differences, it may be useful to have a ✅ / ❌ interface (like gdocs) to accept or refuse specific changes

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

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

I think an option to split screen in the window between two drafts would be really helpful. I love the UI and all the interface we have so far, but as someone who sometimes starts clean for drafts, it would be really helpful to be able to have two documents/drafts open at a time and type in those drafts so that I can look between them and find what I want to change more easily.

So, I have a writing that I've completed (yay!), and at some point, I'd love to reread it, but not have to worry about any mistaken edits from scrolling through it, since accidents can happen. Perhaps on the document list, there could be a button that "locks" the document (or draft) into a read-only format. That way, you can read through your drafts and docs as is and not worry about unintentional changes. And if you do want to change it, you can unlock it and change away!

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.

I saw someone had suggested folders before, but until that's implemented (if that's implemented) it'd be nice if we could tag documents to make them easier to filter. Being able to tag by project, at least in the interim, would make it easier to focus on specific projects!

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.