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for technical writing, and it is *not* a full-featured Markdown editor.
Your novel project is organised as a collection of separate plain text documents instead of a
single, large document. The idea here is to make it easier to reorganise your project structure
without having to cut and paste text between chapters.
single, large document. The idea is to make it easier to reorganise your project structure without
having to cut and paste text between chapters.
There are two kinds of documents in your project: :term:`Novel Documents` are documents that are
part of your story. The other kind of documents are :term:`Project Notes`. These are intended for
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You can at any point split the individual documents by their headers up into multiple documents, or
merge multiple documents into single documents. This makes it easier to use variations of the
Snowflake_ method for writing. You can focus on writing larger structure-focused documents, like
Snowflake_ method for writing. You can start by writing larger structure-focused documents, like
one per act for instance, and later effortlessly split these up into scenes by their headers.
Below are some key features of novelWriter.
**Focus on writing**
The aim of the user interface is to let the user focus on writing instead of spending time
formatting text. Formatting is therefore limited to a small set of formatting tags for simple
things like text emphasis and paragraph alignment. When you really want to focus on just
writing, you can switch the editor into :guilabel:`Focus Mode` where only the text editor panel
itself is visible, and the project structure view is hidden away.
The aim of the user interface is to let you focus on writing instead of spending time formatting
text. Formatting is therefore limited to a small set of formatting tags for simple things like
text emphasis and paragraph alignment. When you really want to focus on just writing, you can
switch the editor into :guilabel:`Focus Mode` where only the text editor panel itself is
visible, and the project structure view is hidden away.
**Keep an eye on your notes**
The main window can optionally show a document viewer to the right of the editor. This view
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build the project into a manuscript, they are all glued together in the top-to-bottom order in
which they appear in the project tree. You can use as few text documents as you like, but
splitting the project up into chapters and scenes means you can easily reorder them using the
drag-and-drop feature. You can also start out with a few documents and then later split them
into multiple documents based on their headers.
drag-and-drop feature of the project tree. You can also start out with a few documents and then
later split them into multiple documents based on their headers.
**Multi-novel project support**
As of novelWriter 2.0, you can have multiple Novel type root folders in a project. This allows
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**Keep track of your plot elements**
All notes in your project can be assigned a :term:`tag` that you can :term:`reference` from any
other document or note. In fact, you can add a new tag under each heading of a note if you need
to be able to reference specific sections of ot.
to be able to reference specific sections of it.
**Get an overview of your plot elements**
**Get an overview of your story**
In the :guilabel:`Outline View` on the main window you can see an outline of all the chapters,
scenes, and sections of your project. If they have any references in them, these are listed in
additional columns. You can also add a synopsis to each chapter or scene, which can be listed
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subset of the outline information is also available in the :guilabel:`Novel View` as an
alternative view to the project tree.
**Get an overview of your story elements**
Under the document viewer panel you will find a series of tabs that shows the different story
elements you have created tags for. The tabs are sorted into Characters, Plots, etc, depending
on which categories you are using in your story. This panel can be hidden when you don't need it
to free up space.
**Building your manuscript**
Whether you want to assemble a manuscript, or export all your notes, or generate an outline of
your chapters and scenes with a synopsis, you can use the :guilabel:`Build Manuscript` tool to
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.. figure:: images/screenshot_default.png
:class: dark-light
novelWriter with default theme
novelWriter with light colour theme
.. figure:: images/screenshot_dark.png
:class: dark-light
novelWriter with dark theme
novelWriter with dark colour theme