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.. _Markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
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At its core, novelWriter is a multi-document plain text editor. It uses a markup syntax inspired by
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Markdown_ to apply simple formatting to the text. It is designed for writing fiction, so the
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formatting features available are limited to those relevant for this purpose. It is *not* suitable
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for technical writing, and it is *not* a full-featured Markdown editor.
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Markdown_ to apply simple formatting to the text. It also allows for some extended formatting codes
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using a shortcode format. See :ref:`a_fmt_shortcodes` for more details.
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.. admonition:: Limitations
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novelWriter is designed for writing fiction, so the formatting features available are limited to
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those relevant for this purpose. It is **not** suitable for technical writing, and it is **not**
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a full-featured Markdown editor.
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It is also not intended as a tool to organise research for writing, and therefore lacks
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formatting features you may need for this purpose. The notes feature in novelWriter is mainly
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intended for character profiles and plot outlines.
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Your novel project is organised as a collection of separate plain text documents instead of a
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single, large document. The idea is to make it easier to reorganise your project structure without
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part of your story. The other kind of documents are :term:`Project Notes`. These are intended for
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your notes about your characters, your world building, and so on.
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You can at any point split the individual documents by their headers up into multiple documents, or
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merge multiple documents into single documents. This makes it easier to use variations of the
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You can at any point split the individual documents by their headings up into multiple documents,
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or merge multiple documents into single documents. This makes it easier to use variations of the
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Snowflake_ method for writing. You can start by writing larger structure-focused documents, like
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one per act for instance, and later effortlessly split these up into scenes by their headers.
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one per act for instance, and later effortlessly split these up into chapters or scenes.
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Below are some key features of novelWriter.
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build the project into a manuscript, they are all glued together in the top-to-bottom order in
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which they appear in the project tree. You can use as few text documents as you like, but
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splitting the project up into chapters and scenes means you can easily reorder them using the
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drag-and-drop feature of the project tree. You can also start out with a few documents and then
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later split them into multiple documents based on their headers.
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drag-and-drop feature of the project tree. You can also start out with fewer documents and then
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later split them into multiple documents based on chapter and scene headings.
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**Multi-novel project support**
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As of novelWriter 2.0, you can have multiple Novel type root folders in a project. This allows
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you to keep a series of individual novels with the same characters and world building in the
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same project, and create manuscripts for them individually.
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You can have multiple Novel type root folders in a project. This allows you to keep a series of
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individual novels with the same characters and world building in the same project, and create
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manuscripts for them individually.
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**Keep track of your plot elements**
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**Keep track of your story elements**
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All notes in your project can be assigned a :term:`tag` that you can :term:`reference` from any
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other document or note. In fact, you can add a new tag under each heading of a note if you need
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to be able to reference specific sections of it.
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**Get an overview of your story elements**
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Under the document viewer panel you will find a series of tabs that shows the different story
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elements you have created tags for. The tabs are sorted into Characters, Plots, etc, depending
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on which categories you are using in your story. This panel can be hidden when you don't need it
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to free up space.
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on which categories you are using in your story. This panel can be hidden to free up space when
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you don't need it.
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**Building your manuscript**
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**Assembling your manuscript**
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Whether you want to assemble a manuscript, or export all your notes, or generate an outline of
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your chapters and scenes with a synopsis, you can use the :guilabel:`Build Manuscript` tool to
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do so. The tool lets you select what information you want to include in the generated document,
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