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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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!

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

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.

While having a document outline is great, I would like a way to collapse (and expand) the actual text in the document under the headers. I find this to be especially useful on long pieces, as this allows me to focus on the section that I am currently working on by hiding the other sections (but still keeping them readily available to cross-reference via search, as opposed to putting each section in its own document). Furthermore, when I am reviewing/proofreading, being able to break it up and keep track of where I am by collapsing/expanding each section as I review it makes the process much easier for me than scrolling through unending walls of text.

I searched, and found a lot of people requesting offline modes for Ellipsus - that's related, but not identical to, what I want. What I want is an option to opt out of cloud storage entirely. A fully offline program (or webapp) that allows me to control my own data, store my own drafts locally, and only let them come into contact with the internet when I'm ready for them to. Less Gdocs, more Microsoft Word in 1995. I'm oldschool. I never used Google Docs, I like my writing to be stored locally on my own machine and only backed up elsewhere if I choose to, I do not enjoy cloud storage, and I especially don't want my writing stored in cloud storage. It makes me self-conscious as I write, knowing it's not technically entirely private. A lot of what I write is really cringe and self-indulgent, I'm a fanfic author. The mandatory use of a cloud sync storage mode is currently a dealbreaker for me on Ellipsus, even though I love a lot of its other features (the export-for-ao3 option...) and my current program of choice is in the midst of integrating AI. Ellipsus devs, please consider a version of Ellipsus that offers local, rather than cloud, storage.

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.

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