Rows are your scenes, columns are everything you're tracking. Plan in the spreadsheet, and your chapter notes, character bibles, and relationship map stay current on their own.
Ctrl-drag a connector from any cell to any other. Each link carries three spaces for annotation — one on each cell and the link itself — so the 'red string' stops being decoration and helps you construct the nuance that your craft deserves.
Section Notes collects everything that happens in a structural unit — overviews, elements, and every link and annotation — into one readable page, nested exactly the way your story is.
Maya learns the truth about her father's past. The central tension shifts from an outside threat to family loyalty.
Every column becomes a reference page: a structured overview up top, then every appearance in order, with the links that element takes part in. Edit it here and the change writes back to the grid.
The planning views aren't the whole tool. Write your prose, keep your sources, and lay the whole project out on an infinite canvas. Link them anywhere in the spreadsheet for easy access.
The envelope had been in the attic since before she was born. Maya turned it over twice, as if the back might explain the front, and found only her own name in a hand she didn't recognise.
Alex watched from the doorway. He had known this day would come, and had spent years deciding what he'd say. None of it arrived now.
"You weren't supposed to find that," he said
A river keeps no record, and yet every flood rewrites the bank it leaves behind.
The water that drowned the mill is the same water children swim in now — older, and unbothered by the difference.
| Row | Alex | The Docks | Betrayal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sc. 4.1 | cornered | salt air | first crack |
| Sc. 4.2 | unraveling | low light | the reveal |