Roadmap

So, collaborator options offers edit or merge, not just viewing. Public link offers only viewing, but as it's not tied to an email, I suspect that, once the link created, the only way to prevent someone from reading the file is by toggling off public link altogether. I would like to be able to invite specific emails to view my files. Reason I ask: I share writings on patreon and ko-fi through gdrive as pdfs, folders locked to specific emails. I had the thought last night that I could offer a better service by using Ellipsus (and further get my writing off google obviously), but for that I need to be able to lock files/folders to specific emails only, that I prefer to have in view-only. So, essentially: private link, that doesn't require an Ellipsus account. Thanks for reading!

I LOVEEEE the new pride theme, it is so cute!! As someone who uses a screen constantly I just won't be able to manage the brightness even though I love the color scheme. Adding a dark option for this would be so cool and easier on the eyes for those of us who are prone to headaches and such! I love the rainbows and it certainly made it more fun to have to sit down and do words today!

Whenever I sent a link to a Google Document over Discord in the past, the message would populate with the document's title and the first five-ish lines written. This makes it really easy to see at a glance what document a link is leading to. Is there a way to implement a similar feature for Ellipsus links? Right now it's really difficult to organize Ellipsus documents externally between co-contributors.

Spell check for Norwegian!

I would be thrilled to have more language options. I personally would love Czech as I write in it but generaly I'd love the language pool to grow.

I'm really glad that Ellipsus has headers and paragraphs, but I would love to be able to apply one formatting style to all headers/all paragraphs. Just now, porting something over from Google Docs, I wanted indents on all my paragraphs but not my headers. My only option was to select all, hit indent, then go back and manually unindent my headers. It would be great if you could apply a style to a certain format and have Ellipsus remember that inside the document.

Introduce additional theme options to Ellipsus. Note from the Ellipsus team: If you're adding a comment, please provide detailed information on the colors you would like to see—extra points if you can share links to your inspiration! ❤️

Make it possible to create a unique view-only link set to expire after a certain period of time (e.g., 24 hours, 7 days).

In my writing, I use a lot of in-universe letters, historical documents, and a ton of other things. It helps my brain a lot to have them in a separate font than the character's thoughts, as well as a separate paragraph. However, I haven't been able to use more than one font in a document. Whenever I try to change just one paragraph, the whole thing changes. It would be great if, like changes in color or italics, font was based on the character and not the document.

The comment highlights being the same color as highlight text for selection makes selecting text that's been commented on extremely difficult. There's no visual indication of what's selected so editing commented text is pretty inaccessible. It'd be great if we could a) have different default comment vs highlight colors and b) be able to change those colors as necessary. Thanks!

There must be an actual name for this functionality, but: The font selector is a little unweildy right now, and is only going to get more so as more fonts are added. Some drop down lists on other websites allow you to search a dropdown by simply typing when the dropdown is selected. The actual selected font "jumps" as you keep typing. Even just having it be able to jump to the first letter would be very helpful!

I'd love to get a sneak peek of existing templates before choosing to add one to my dashboard.

Want to see a new font in Ellipsus? Add your idea in the comments. 👇 Please keep the following in mind: We cannot add MS default fonts like Times New Roman, Comic Sans, Lucida Sans, Verdana. We would need to pay to license them which isn't financially realistic for us at this time. 😭We can only support fonts that offer free commercial licensing. Font Squirrel and Google Fonts offer tons of options. We'll only add fonts with full Latin glyph support (e.g., letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation)

There should be an option to add a comment to a specific location by either right clicking or using a keyboard shortcut. Its very unwieldy to go to the top of the comments menu to make a new comment when you're hundreds of comments deep in the comments menu.

This is an extremely minor thing and absolutely not a dealbreaker, but I would rather have an error page that says something neutral like "something went wrong" or better yet, tells me what the error was, as opposed to "whoopsy doodle!" or some other silly/cute phrase. That type of error page can make it even more frustrating when you're already dealing with tech difficulties, especially since it doesn't tell you anything about how to fix the error.

This is specifically about words that are both already English and already spelled correctly, and how they are currently tripping the spell check. Like, for example, "biome" or "rainforest" (which does tend to be spelled as one word). Teaching the dictionary country and character names is fine once it's available, it just seems silly to have to do that with words that are in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

The new text colors are absolutely wonderful! But they're needlessly limited by only haveing a few hues and then a few brightnesses to select from. It would be wonderful if we could supply our own custom colors in addition.

Currently it's possible to share links to Ellipsus documents with others online, which is extremely nice! But giving the option to make the text in the document non-copy/paste-able for viewers might be helpful as an extra layer of safety against those who might decide to copy the document into AI if the link is posted on a public forum, or other such similar cases of abuse.

I’d like to be able to select multiple languages at once while writing so that I can write in multiple without one getting marked as incorrect all the time. This can go for completely different languages like a Chinese person speaking their native language in an otherwise English document or just simple slang variations between British English and American English

When I’m working with 3 or more people, sometimes certain comments are meant for one collaborator to see and It would be great if we could tag them for faster access.

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.

I'm doing a story chain on Ellipsus with multiple writers, and we edit each other's previous parts in the chain whenever we have free time. Right now, we can only leave comments or edit directly. We don't mind editing directly for small typos, but for major revisions, it'd be helpful to "suggest edits" instead so that it doesn't seem like we're overstepping. Our current workaround to this problem is suggesting our big edits in comments, but this workflow is really not that efficient.

I'd like to want templates on place the story is happening. Like it's history, how they first came to this place, its layout, etc.

I think a template to outline a character's power set and abilities would be helpful. For me, almost every character I'm working with has some form of them and it will be critical to ensure I'm staying grounded in their evolution as powers are critical for character development in my writing. Something to outline base abilities alongside strengths and limitations would be great!

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.

Template where you can fill out a wider universe with quickly summarised planets/federations would be useful for sci fi writers

A template that is made for writing physical copy oyour book.

A template to help you organize research and information needed to write your story. I personally write sci-fi so I have to research a lot of odd concepts and it would be cool to have a template to sort everything out!

Some kind of Mendeley compatibility/connection similar to the Word plug-in would be super helpful for those of us who need to manage/format references in our writing. I know that ellipsus was made for fiction writers, but I'm also a scientist and I think this has the potential to revolutionize how we write scientific papers. Sending Word Docs between 5-30+ coauthors who all have edits is laborious and insanity-inducing. Easy reference management is really one of the only things I see holding ellipsus back from being the go-to method of writing scientific manuscripts and other non-fiction works.

Formatting option to switch to upper, lower, or title cases. I use for heading formats, but this is a personal preference, I think there are more common use cases for people who do script writing or report writing.

Don't even know if it's possible, but I'm sure the coders have cracked the code sometime. It would be great if the Outline was color-coded to match the font color in the document. That is all.

Introduce the option to crop images in a document. On Google Drive, when you click an image, a blue border forms around it and moving that border resizes the image. But if you click on a square (image icon) button, the image border turns gray and instead allows for cropping the image by toggling the border. It wouldn't have to work like that on here, but the feature would help save space on documents when you only need parts of images.

Would be good if someone could edit a draft as a guest, or just through a link, without needing to manually add them as a collaborator first? Even if it required login, to at least be able to just share the link to a draft and for that draft to allow people to edit it

It would be nice to be able to personalise screen themes. I'm dyslexic, and having the ability to set the page colour to the shade of blue I like would be fantastic.

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.

marking all as read isn't enough for me! would love to clear them afterwards

Make Ellipsus timers collaborative, allowing: Multiple collaborators in a doc to set and follow the timer. Word count results to be shown as part of the sprint.

I think this is a thing over on google docs, and I cant find this roadmap yall mention to see if its on there, or if its already in where it would be, but an option in the spellcheck menu to "always correct to". mostly so I can continue to be lazy and have the program add the ' in "dont" for me

Show character count Show word count by section / chapter Show line count Show page count

I would love to see a feature that allows for book formatting and typesetting. There are very few affordable options for this, and it would be a great addition to this application.

I love all the themes Ellipsus has and I love changing what my workspace looks like every few days. A button to choose a random theme from the list would be great for indecisive people like me I think!

Ive never used import markdown files, could not figure out how to get one from google docs and had to convert a pdf to the import markdown file but that scrambled the formatting. Pretty annoying start after trying to leave google docs.

This would be so cool, especially for collaborations and when the collaborators used different themes AND font colours that aren't true black or true white. I am currently working with a friend who uses sepia for the font and works with the pride theme, but I always work in the darkest dark mode and the result is that the sepia text colour doesn't work for me, so I either have to change my theme or my friend has to change their text colour.

Things like, how religions religions, cults, gangs etc. work, how fast and long a horse can run with a person on them, the prices of drugs etc. (all from perfectly legal sources) so it's all in 1 place (and less writers on an fbi watchlist)

A place where writers can just post plot bunnies they don't want to/can't write for a reason, with a taging system like a03 with the upvotes/downvotes of Reddit.

Adding the templates feature when creating a draft in a document

Hi, I want to suggest chat to be a feature for every document, and not just documents that has collaborators. I like how it was before where every draft had its own chat and I, the creator of the doc, was allowed to use it to "talk to myself" and leave notes. I hope you can consider the usefulness of chat for documents that have no collaboration (as I've mentioned) and revert the change. Thank you.

This idea depends on being able to sort drafts either manually or alphanumerically, so I'll link to the existing idea about that: https://feedback.ellipsus.com/b/k06kj9mx/feature-ideas/order-drafts Each of my drafts is a scene or a set of scenes. It would be very helpful to be able to see a preview, at the end of each draft, of the beginning of the next draft. Like, a paragraph or two, greyed out a little. Then, I wouldn't have to switch back and forth to remember how the next scene starts.

We need a web plotting / mind mapping tool not affiliated with Google.