Changelog

Discover Plottr's latest updates

v2024-10-11

Fixed

  • Title input for scene cards on the Fulltext view. 
  • Order of manually sorted scene cards on the Fulltext view, legacy view, and on exported Scrivener and Word documents. 

v2024-10-09

New

Fixed

  • Templates were not downloading when you updated or installed Plottr. 
  • Stacked view + missing header cards, broke the timeline. 

v2024-9-10

Fixed

  • Plottr into Plottr, where it was creating multiple custom attributes

v2024-8-01

New

Improved

  • Projects from the web, downloads without extra letters/numbers in the title

Fixed

  • Exporting to Word can include images again
  • Creating a new file without the default folder selected
  • Backups not working on Pro or Plottr
  • The version number will be displayed on the install ribbon

v2024-6-13

Fixed

  • If you had the default folder turned off, you were not able to make a new project

v2024-6-4

Fixed

  • Indent bullet in the editor
  • Drag and drop cards
  • Download projects from the web version

v2024-5-30

Fixed

  • Templates not updating to Plottr

v2024-5-29

New

  • Import (docx) from Word
  • Five templates
    • Starter Templates:
      • Story Genius (based on the book Story Genius by Lisa Cron)
      • Heroine’s Journey (based on the book The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger)
      • Bromancing the Beat (based on Romancing the Beat)
    • Project Templates:
      • Idea Folder
      • Story Genius Plot Guide
    • Scene Card Templates:
      • Story Genius
      • Plot Problem Evaluation 
    • Character Template:
      • Story Genius

Improved

  • Word export
  • Undo and redo

Fixed

  • Custom attributes not showing up in the Saved Template list

v2024-5-2

New

  • Login for Plottr requires a username and password instead of a license key

Fixed

  • Minor bug updates

v2024-3-13

New

  • Added word count
  • Added fonts everywhere

Improved

  • Long titles are now displayed with a smaller font on books in the project tab
  • Font style improved in dark mode
  • Tag names are no longer cut in the middle of a word

Fixed

  • Copy and paste has been fixed
  • Bug fix with character notes not displaying for some users
  • Fixed where if you delete a saved template it deletes the template in your project
  • Other minor bug fixes

v2024-2-1

Fixed

  • Pasting formatted text into Plottr
  • Some characters were not displaying correctly
  • Deleting character attributes
  • Searching for scene cards and beats while in a series book

v2024-1-30

New

  • Added the search and replace feature
  • Added the drag and drop for Notes, Characters, Places

Improved

  • Pasting text into editor will remove fonts

Fixed

  • Plottr’s wake up from sleep has been fixed
  • Can now rename an open project on Pro

Templates Release 2024-1-17

New 

  • Hero’s Journey Short Story (Plot Template)
  • Character in a Situation Short Story (Plot Template)
  • Larry Brooks Short Story (Plot Template)

v2023-12-20

New

  • Added the capability to delete a Pro backup

Improved

  • Updates to how Scrivener files are imported into Plottr
  • Data loading improvements on the Timeline tab

Fixed

  • Scrivener export with Attributes are not listed, they are now listed on the character file
  • Shortcut keys were not working, they are now fixed

v2023-08-21 (released in Nov. ’23)

Improved

  • Handle an infinite number of scene cards, characters, places, and notes in Pro
  • Performance and data loading improvements

v2023-07-21

New

  • Default Folder feature
  • A startup wizard that appears on the first time you open Plottr let’s you choose basic settings

Improved

Fixed

  • Closing a file when there are still changes that need to be saved now notifies you and let’s you save those changes and then closes automatically
  • Pinned plotline UI when a collaborating on a file
  • Styling on stacked cards in medium timeline
  • Default font styling for titles and subtitles in the rich content editor

v2023-05-31

New

  • Pin plotlines
  • OpenDyslexic Font

Improved

  • View the Image Gallery from the File menu
  • Duplicate files from the dashboard and the File menu
  • Reorder template tabs in scene cards and characters
  • Duplicate books easily from the Project tab

v2023-04-20

Fixed

  • Clean up per-book character attributes when books are deleted

v2023-04-14

Fixed

  • Creating projects from templates with Act Structure per book
  • Allow creating templates from timelines without any scene cards

v2023-03-31

New

  • Act Structure 1.0
    • Three views (or modes), for visualizing the Timeline: Default, Stacked, and Tabbed
    • Restructure entire plot hierarchy with “Restructure Timeline” button
    • Save and apply Timeline templates with structure enabled
    • Available in all projects by default – there is no longer a beta setting to enable it

Improved

  • The scrolling panel on the Timeline toolbar has been redesigned 

v2023-03-13

Fixed

  • A problem where files that lacked critical data for Plottr to function were prevented from being saved. Plottr now recovers that data automatically.

v2023-03-03

New

  • Nine templates, including a new Poetry category within Starter Templates
    • Starter Templates
      • Haiku
      • Limerick
      • Sonnet (Shakesperian)
    • Scene Card Templates
      • Sarra Cannon Scene Roadmap
      • Susanne Lakin Scene
      • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
    • Character Templates
      • Five Stages of Grief
      • Four Temperaments
      • Freudian Personality Theory
  • Create a desktop shortcut to your project easily from the Dashboard and the File menu
  • Translations for Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), and Hindi

Improved

  • Filters 2.0: Filter menus now only show options you have used
  • Bullet Points 2.0: Indented bullet points with multiple levels (up to five)

v2023-01-25

Fixed

  • A small issue in the characters-per-book feature that affected users who opened projects on different versions of Plottr between devices

v2022-12-21

New

  • Characters per book feature

Improved

  • The Files section of the Dashboard now features buttons to open, rename, and delete a project without opening the three dot menu
  • The Characters tab remembers what character you were working on when you leave the tab and return
  • The rich text editor toolbar now sticks to the top of the screen so you don’t have to scroll to find it in Notes, Characters, and Places
  • When creating a new book in a project, a dialog box now opens to save info about the book (and optionally open the book’s Timeline)
  • Easily duplicate a project from the project tab
  • Many UI tweaks to improve ease-of-use

Fixed

  • Various situations where exporting to MS Word would produce an error
  • Many performance improvements all across the system and platform
  • Downloading a copy of a project via Plottr Pro now downloads the images properly

v2022-08-30

Fixed

  • A situation where starting up Plottr without an internet connection would causing freezing issues

v2022-08-25

Fixed

  • Renaming a file outside of Plottr and then trying to open it when you have “Always Open Dashboard First” setting off

v2022-08-18

Fixed

  • Editing and deleting custom templates

v2022-08-17

New

  • 15 Character Templates:
    • Bernard Pivot Questionnaire
    • Big Five Personality Traits
    • Character Arc
    • Clifton Strengths Profile
    • D&D Character Sheet (Dungeons & Dragons)
    • D&D Monster Sheet (Dungeons & Dragons)
    • D&D NPC Sheet (Dungeons & Dragons)
    • DISC Personality Profile
    • James Lipton Questionnaire
    • Marcel Proust Questionnaire
    • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
    • Numerology
    • Online Dating Profile
    • Rorschach Inkblot Test
    • Syd Field Character Qualities
  • Default Font and Font Size setting for the text editor (via Dashboard > Settings)
  • Spell Check setting (via Dashboard > Settings)

Improved

  • Export buttons on every tab
  • Filter menus now show all elements you can filter by without scrolling the window
  • See when an update is available from any project window, not just the Dashboard
  • Search documentation more easily from the Help tab in the Dashboard
  • Many performance improvements

Fixed

  • Autofocus text inputs more consistently
  • Styling of duplicate buttons
  • Exporting to MS Word is more stable
  • Opening backups is handled better
  • Many stability fixes

v2022-07-21

New

Improved

  • Scene card and character templates now include help text (where appropriate)

Fixed

  • Displaying scene template attribute descriptions
  • Scrolling scene stacks when the plotline is collapsed
  • Improved handling of user folders in the backup folder
  • Other small improvements

v2022-06-29

New

  • Search in the timeline
  • Duplicate notes/characters/places/tags

Improved

  • Scrivener import handles more situations more gracefully
  • Opening non-Pro projects while logged into Pro now prompts you to upload the project instead of failing to open it
  • Rendering speed improvements to the Timeline and Outline

Fixed

  • Performance improvements that should solve the freezing issue some users have been having
  • Rich content editor scrolling issues while highlighting text
  • Font size within the rich content editor reflects the selected font properly
  • Deleting the first letter in a custom attribute title works
  • Choosing a color while creating a tag now sticks
  • Opening a file from File Explorer (windows) now updates the last-opened date properly
  • The visible line of a plotline always reaches the end properly and doesn’t go past it
  • Removing images doesn’t put the underlying data in a weird state
  • Typing below images in rich content editors now works
  • Lots of other small fixes

v2022-06-02

Improved

  • Better error handling with files that have trouble opening

v2022-05-25

Fixed

  • An issue that wouldn’t open Plottr if Windows narration was on and images were displaying

v2022-05-24

Fixed

  • An issue that wouldn’t let you type in character/scene paragraph type template fields and custom attributes

v2022-05-18

New

  • Search within Outline, Notes, Characters, and Places
  • Categories for Places
  • Duplicate Plotlines
  • Transfer Plotlines to the Series View or to other Books within a Project
  • Streamer-Friendly Mode to hide your sensitive info when you’re streaming

Improved

  • Better indication that you’re on Pro and that your files are being saved to the cloud in the Dashboard (Pro)
  • Transfer individual scene cards to the Series view
  • Scrivener import now includes the project name

Fixed

  • Broken support link in the Help tab of the Dashboard
  • Various issues when using Plottr offline

 

v2022-04-06

New

  • Import projects from Scrivener – see documentation here
  • Duplicate scene cards
  • Transfer scene cards to other books in a project
  • Prompt to enter a project name when creating a new project
  • Translations for Italian, Portuguese, and Greek

Improved

  • Import Snowflake files (Pro)
  • Performance improvements
  • More elements translated in certain languages
  • Act Structure help window updated
  • Notification when Scrivener export fails
  • Smaller installer size

Fixed

  • One-way syncing issues that were solved by turning on the Offline Mode beta (Pro)
  • Erroneous notice that you’re not receiving updates (Pro)
  • Fix setting images, titles and descriptions of entities when also saving other attributes
  • Fix a bug where starting onboarding, cancelling and then starting again caused the app to become stuck
  • Update templates dynamically on the template picker
  • Fix the length of lines for long timelines
  • Vertical Timeline rendering of lines and cards with Act Structure enabled

v2022-03-10

Fixed

  • Opening a project with the 3 dots button (Pro)

v2022-03-04

Fixed

  • Dashboard hiding projects
  • Image caching issue (Pro)
  • Scene card editing in the Outline (Pro)

v2022-02-25

Fixed

  • “Take Control” buttons not working in certain situations (Pro)
  • Delete a custom template

v2022-02-23

New

  • Beta feature: Offline Mode (Pro)

Improved

  • The project dashboard has been streamlined and redesigned (with more to come)
  • You can now add plotline starter templates and custom templates to the Timeline in Flip mode
  • The “Settings” button on the Timeline is now called “Structure”

Fixed

  • “Save As” now works on web app (Pro)
  • Local backup file names (Pro)
  • Account screen fixes (Pro)
  • Missing file icon (Pro)
  • Editing custom template info (Pro)
  • Opening local files as the most recent project (Pro)
  • Remembering dark mode settings in web app (Pro)
  • Ordering cards in a scene stack
  • Recent projects display the correct “last opened” dates
  • Sort backups by newest first
  • Auto-save glitches, including when saving to an external drive
  • Opening a downloaded Pro file when not using Pro
  • Renaming attributes name no longer clears the value
  • In Medium view on the Timeline, buttons appear to create a new plotline and beat
  • Allow slashes in attribute names
  • In scene card dialog, fixes the beats dropdown with Act Structure on
  • Folder search for backups and file count
  • Image caching for better performance in rich content editor
  • Reload the app when adding or removing a license
  • More parts are translated properly
  • Many other stability improvements

v2022-02-08

New

  • Four new starter templates to plan your books and writing projects:

Improved

  • Better German translation

Fixed

  • File saving stability fixes for external drives

v2022-01-25

Fixed

  • More robust file error checking and handling when saving files

v2022-01-19

Improved

  • When using Plottr Pro, the top of the window displays “Plottr Pro” next to your file name

Fixed

  • Auto-save error messages
  • Exporting numbered-lists with badly formatted children

v2022-01-12

New

  • Translated into German, Russian, and Farsi

Improved

  • Auto-saving when storing local files in Dropbox and iCloud
  • Local backups of cloud projects are named by the project name instead of the project ID
  • Plottr Pro onboarding flow

Fixed

  • Series view not displaying (Web App)
  • Logging out from Plottr Pro
  • Expired trial flow
  • Word export bugs
  • Scrivener export bugs
  • Bug in the Rich Content Editor, caused by slashes in Attribute names, when viewing conten

v2021-12-17

Fixed

  • Cleanup in preparation for the release of Plottr Pro

v2021-12-03

Fixed

  • The setting to open the dashboard at start

v2021-12-02

Fixed

  • Starting the app in Pro
  • Word exporting issues

v2021-11-24

Improved

  • Project sorting in the projects dashboard

Fixed

  • Windows updating bug

v2021-11-22

Fixed

  • Character template text error

v2021-11-20

Fixed

  • Word export stability issues

v2021-11-19

Fixed

  • Series view not appearing
  • Character template attributes not displaying
  • Logging out of Plottr Pro

v2021-11-17

New

  • Configure if you want to see the project dashboard or the most recent project on open
  • Access recent projects easily from the File menu
  • Create new projects easily from the File menu
  • Drag and drop whole collapsed scene stacks on the Timeline

Improved

  • In the Outline, you can now drag and drop scene cards into blank chapters
  • When editing a scene card in the Outline, clicking away or hitting “esc” on your keyboard will save and close that scene card
  • Filter by “uncategorized” category in Characters and Notes
  • When all chapters are deleted, it’s now easier to add more

Fixed

  • Bugs introduced in 11-09 have been fixed: exporting errors, typing lag, missing character data.
  • Bold italics within a list item no longer causes that list item to not export to Word
  • Dark mode chapter title editing has the right text color
  • No matter how many scene cards you have in a collapsed scene stack, you can scroll through them all
  • In the Outline, filtered plotlines export properly
  • Fixed an error appearing on the Outline when there were no Plotlines

v2021-11-09

Improved

  • The Dashboard has been merged into the main interface of Plottr, making its resources accessible from every window

v2021-08-31

Fixed

  • New templates not loading for some users in v2021-8-27
  • Correcting words with the spell checker in rich content areas

v2021-08-27

New

  • 10 new timeline starter templates:
    • Cozy Mystery Beat Sheet (via Sara Rosett)
    • Children’s Book Plot
    • Horror Beat Sheet (via T.L. Bodine)
    • Lester Dent Master Plot Formula
    • Fichtean Curve
    • Foolproof Pulp Formula
    • Freytag’s Pyramid
    • In Media Res
    • Propp Folktale Structure
    • Villain’s Journey

Improved

  • A tiny dark mode coloring improvement

v2021-08-19

Improved

  • Better stability in the rich content editor for image links

Fixed

  • Opening files on devices with missing scene card or character templates doesn’t create an error
  • Fix exporting to Scrivener in rare cases
  • Fix file repairing when files get jumbled

v2021-08-16

Improved

  • When editing a Timeline heading, the value is auto-selected for easier editing
  • Dark mode styling

Fixed

  • Clicking on links in the “What’s New” panel opens a browser window properly

v2021-08-11

New

  • Use multiple templates per character/scene card
  • Start a book (within a project) with a template
  • Rename all the chapter headings easily
  • Backup settings

Improved

  • A consistent template format with lots more detail
  • More Spanish translations
  • Find advanced export in the File menu

Fixed

  • Small timeline chapter headings
  • Get a manual link to download an update when update fails
  • Make the outline filter consistent with the export properly
  • Visual line lengths
  • Stacked scene cards with Act Structure on
  • Removing books works properly

v2021-07-29

Fixed

  • Fix lists in rich content in some cases
  • Fix broken files created from bad templates

v2021-07-20

Fixed

  • Small timeline beat titles that are not auto-numbered
  • Manual download link when the auto-update fails

v2021-07-15

Fixed

  • Timeline card stacking in vertical mode
  • Act Structure beta templates
  • Insert buttons between beats
  • Line lengths

v2021-07-14

New

  • Outline Updates:
    • Add and remove links to characters, places, and tags
    • Filter by multiple plotlines at once
    • Export only the filtered plotlines by default
    • Drag scenes into chapters via the sidebar panel
  • Export individual plotlines via Advanced Export
  • Categories for Tags
  • Filter templates by genre / type
  • Font size chooser in rich content editor

Improved

  • Card descriptions are auto-saved as you type
  • Better responsiveness in the Outline on small screens
  • Better responsiveness in the Dashboard so you can always see your files no matter how small the screen is
  • Medium-sized timeline makes it easier to add a card without a template
  • Export character categories into Word
  • Performance improvements

Fixed

  • Bulleted lists un-formatting
  • Long tags and book titles no longer overflow to content
  • Word exporting issues
  • Removed the constant dashed chapter heading
  • Darkmode improvements
  • Maximizing windows in Mac
  • Helpful message when you’ve used all your device activations
  • Removing tags properly throughout the project
  • Prevent two dashboard windows being opened at once
  • Prevent the same project from being opened in two windows at once
  • Remove the blank color in the color filter of the timeline
  • Importing an image from URL
  • Default colors for Act Structure
  • Improved file migration process
  • Auto-focus card description
  • Editing scene attribute names
  • Help menu shortcut to create an error report
  • Properly centered add scene buttons
  • Filter the small timeline properly

v2021-06-04

Fixed

  • Restore scrollbars on scene card dialog and custom attributes

v2021-06-03

Fixed

  • The rich content editor automatically scrolls down when the cursor goes past the end of the text area
  • Scene cards in the vertical layout are displayed so that they aren’t rendered as part of a scene stack

v2021-05-19

New

  • Notes can now have categories, be sorted chronologically and alphabetically, and filtered by associated books, characters, places, and categories

Improved

  • Revamped Notes UI
  • The timeline now scrolls to the position of a newly added beat when using the act structure, highlighting the beat for ease of navigation
  • Auto-numbering of heading cards is now sequential rather than restarting with each child of a beat
  • Improved timeline drag-and-drop of heading cards
  • Dragging a card from the right side of the outline tab into the outline minimap on the left now moves the card to that beat
  • Improved dark mode styling

Fixed

  • Block quotes are now exported as paragraphs when exporting to Word
  • Cards now render in the order they appear on the timeline when a beat on the timeline is collapsed

v2021-05-03

Improved

  • On the timeline in medium zoom, users can now insert lower-level beats when using act structure

Fixed

  • Fixed scrolling when inserting beats into timeline
  • Timeline styling & tour fixes
  • Rich Content Editors no longer scrolling after every key stroke

v2021-04-28

Fixed

  • Free trial start

v2021-04-26

New

  • Act Structure beta
  • Tour of Act Structure features

Improved

  • Advanced exporting respects outline filter

Fixed

  • Fix filtering in a few places
  • Fixed clicking on a link in rich text
  • Fixed empty outline view
  • Advanced exporting style improvements
  • Fixed toolbar padding
  • Improved responsiveness in dashboard Files tab

v2021-03-25

New

  • Advanced exporting options

Improved

  • Better dashboard color styling
  • Moved expand/collapse all plotlines button to be on each plotline
  • Reduced installer and app size
  • Improved auto-update errors

Fixed

  • Darkmode styling in some spots
  • Template usage in some cases
  • Manual sorting in the outline between chapters
  • Chapters out of order bug when deleting

v2021-03-09

Fixed

  • Exporting button issue

v2021-03-08

New

  • Scene Card colors

Improved

  • Use templates in the series timeline view

Fixed

  • Fix empty timeline when creating a new book
  • Improved toolbar spacing
  • Snowflake pro import fix
  • Fix plotline line updating its size when adding a new chapter

v2021-02-24

Improved

  • Enable saving templates from any book in a project

Fixed

  • Custom templates ordering issue

v2021-02-23

Fixed

  • Character notes editing issue

v2021-02-22

Fixed

  • Outline card editing issue
  • Display project templates properly
  • Add back “renaming” ability in the dashboard
  • Fix template picker dark mode

v2021-02-19

New

  • Templates for scene cards (with starter templates and custom templates)
  • Better zooming experience

Improved

  • Responsive Navigation
  • Edit/Delete templates from the dashboard
  • Dark mode setting in the dashboard
  • Click anywhere in a rich text editor to focus keyboard input
  • Scene card popover now appears on the correct side no matter where you scroll on the timeline
  • Display template versions in the About section

Fixed

  • Notification bell is in a better spot in the dashboard (and clickable)
  • Notification bell is the right color in dark mode
  • Arrow keys don’t scroll the timeline while in custom attribute dialog
  • Fix import from URL in the scene card dialog
  • Deleting a book works properly
  • Fix free trial auto updating
  • Fix saving meta data in custom templates
  • Fix exported scene cards sometimes getting out of order

v2021-01-29

New

  • Custom scene card attributes
  • Filter scene cards by custom attributes

Improved

  • Export to Scrivener now includes Characters, Places, & Notes
  • Rename files from the dashboard
  • Preferences/Options tab changed to Settings
  • Notification bell on the dashboard

Fixed

  • Drag & drop books in the project works correctly now
  • Rich content editing issues with lists and other small issues
  • Canceling the scene card dialog cancels changes correctly

v2021-01-13

New

  • Dashboard dark mode

Improvements

  • Dashboard files tab is more responsive
  • Improved scrolling for scene card descriptions

Fixed

  • Fix the project tab scrolling down to the bottom
  • Word exporting fixes
  • Rich content editor heals bad formatting
  • Error logging in one spot
  • Updating the file structure for recent projects
  • Fix unresponsive dashboard for some
  • Updated help menu links
  • Fix log not defined errors
  • Fix error that only allowed one recent project for some
  • Other very small fixes

v2020-12-31

Fixed

  • Small dashboard bug fixes

v2020-12-21

Fixed

  • Character attributes save-as-template issue
  • Timeline frozen column and row issue

v2020-12-17

New

  • Plottr In-App Dashboard

Fixed

  • Lots of small issues
  • Image selecting issue

v2020-12-1

Fixed

  • Show descriptions when a link is the only thing
  • Give book cover images a max height so they don’t cover the buttons
  • Trial mode not starting for some users
  • Give users the ability to reset their license in case of an upgrade

v2020-11-25

New

  • Custom character categories
  • Switch Languages easily
  • The Timeline remembers where you were scrolled

Fixed

  • Added back the “Insert a link” button in the rich text editor

v2020-11-11

New

  • Reorder custom attributes

Improvements

  • Linux beta

Fixes

  • Paste in the rich text editor uses new lines properly
  • Paste and Match Style works in rich text editor
  • Dark mode switching works better
  • Scene reordering fixed
  • Unicode character exporting to Scrivener
  • Title and Subtitle buttons in rich text editor
  • Undo from menu when in rich text editor
  • Reordering plotlines in series view is consistent

v2020-11-03

New

  • Linux test version

Improved

  • When using Save As, don’t close the original file

Fixed

  • Numbered and bulleted lists in the rich text editor
  • Blank cards on hover in the vertical timeline
  • Long titles for chapters, plotlines, and scene cards
  • Asking to verify license multiple times on Mac
  • Backups failing silently in some situations
  • Failing to report errors in some situations

v2020-10-23

New

  • Import from Snowflake Pro
  • Project Templates
  • Snowflake Method templates (Plotline template and Character template)

Fixed

  • Saving templates with scene stacks
  • Template Picker styling
  • Template Picker closing after choosing character template
  • Tag List scrollbar

v2020-09-25

New

  • Font Chooser in the text editor

Improvements

  • No longer add ‘copy’ when you Save As

Fixed

  • Pasting lists into the text editor
  • Null tag bug
  • Not showing descriptions in some cases

v2020-09-14

Fixed

  • Deleting custom attributes

v2020-09-11

New

  • Strikethrough text
  • Colored text

Improvements

  • Redesigned Image Gallery
  • Use Image Gallery in paragraph text

Fixed

  • Tint button when creating a new tag

v2020-08-31

New

  • Clear the timeline

Fixed

  • Pasting images from html

v2020-08-20

New

  • Export the Series View

Improvements

  • Style tweaks on the toolbar on smaller screens

Fixed

  • Handle errors more gracefully

v2020-08-14

New

  • Scrivener Export!

Improvements

  • Renaming custom attributes doesn’t make it appear to lose your data
  • Warning when deleting custom attributes
  • Restrict certain custom attribute values

Fixed

  • Using template when adding plotline bugs
  • Exporting bugs
  • Darkmode – custom attributes dialog bug
  • Places image sizing bug

v2020-07-30

New

  • In-App Notification Center for better communication

Improvements

  • Free Trial now auto-updates
  • Alphabetized lists of Characters/Places/Tags when attaching

Fixed

  • Word export problems
  • Project tab scrolling
  • Default file names for exports and Save As
  • Screenshot PNG file type
  • Darkmode styling of the delete confirmation window

v2020-07-21

New

  • Prologue support
  • Multiple scenes per chapter (part 1)

Improvements

  • Drag & Drop Outline
  • Error handling
  • Outline render performance
  • Timeline filter persists

Fixed

  • Scene card displaying bug
  • File > Export bug

v2020-07-03

Improvements

  • Undo / Redo
  • Click on a book cover to go to its timeline
  • Sort characters & places alphabetically in filter lists

v2020-06-25

New

  • Spell check suggestions
  • Spanish Translation

Improvements

  • Right-click for copy/paste
  • Better daily backup
  • Instrumented statistics
  • Better deleting dialog

Fixed

  • Windows unresponsive bug
  • White text on a white tag
  • Adding a series plotline in vertical timeline view
  • Plotline titles limited to 50 characters to fix vertical timeline view
  • Deleting first book
  • Auto beat numbering

v2020-06-17

Improvements

  • Better error reporting
  • The trial asks you to create a file

Fixed

  • export bug
  • darkmode in a few places

v2020-06-15

New

  • Character Categories

Improvements

  • Paste from Word correctly (and other places)
  • Add Book and Tags to your Characters and Places
  • Notifications when there’s an update available
  • Ability to unlink links

Fixed

  • Clicking on URLs now opens the link in a new window in your browser
  • Template import bug

v2020-06-05

New

  • Custom Templates!

Improvements

  • For books with images, don’t show the title
  • Template wording tweaks
  • Template Picker’s dark mode styling
  • OS notifications for things instead of popup boxes
  • Activate License link in free trial

Fixed

  • Template importing as a new plotline

v2020-05-27

Improvements

  • Tags now display Save button when editing
  • Removed confusing “Attached To” message in Characters and Places
  • Changed heading under Project tab to “Series”
  • Better new window sizing
  • Character / Places / Notes scrolling performance, plus add new button at top of screen
  • Export from the Outline tab

Fixes

  • More obvious .docx file type on export
  • Book Switcher bug
  • Blank note display
  • Dark mode styling
  • Image bug ? “imageExtensions is not defined”
  • Null line handling
  • Reload on unresponsive

v2020-05-19

New

  • “New from Template” option in the dialog to open a file or create a new file

Improvements

  • More info in error reports
  • Better Rich Content Editor performance

Bug Fixes

  • Blank card color changing when changing a plotline’s color
  • Scene card editing occasional bug
  • Ask to Open or Create dialog bug when files have moved

v2020-05-10

New

  • Drag an image file from your computer onto any description field (as many as you like)

Improvements

  • Series tab changed to Project tab
  • Better error reporting

Bug Fixes

  • Plotline title wrapping
  • ScrollLeft bug
  • Add separation character between characters/places/notes in export
  • Better fix for numbered lists export

v2020-05-06

Improvements

  • Add a link to the Facebook support group in the Help menu

Bug Fixes

  • Small bug fixes from error reports
  • Line reordering bug
  • Exporting numbered-lists
  • Template as a new plotline weird scene card behavior

v2020-05-05

Improvements

  • View Device ID from Menu (Plottr menu)
  • Use file name as series name and book 1 name when creating a new file
  • Check for updates earlier in the startup process
  • Error reporting around template loading

Bug Fixes

  • Handle slow internet connections when loading templates
  • Migration to fix up bad file states from older files

v2020-05-04

Improvements

  • Add link to documentation from the Help menu

Bug Fixes

  • Migration bug from old files
  • Guided Tour grammar error
  • Another template loading bug
  • Character template export error

v2020-05-03

Bug Fixes

  • Template loading bug

v2020-05-02

Bug Fixes

  • New file error

2.0 – 2020-05-01

New

  • Series bible
  • Advanced templates
  • Images for characters, places, notes
  • Daily file backups

Improvements

  • Timeline / Scene Cards
    • Chapter auto-numbering
    • WYSIWYG text editor (replacing Markdown)
    • “Scenes” are now labeled “chapters”
    • Tour
  • Notes
    • Editing notes works like characters and places? ? ?click to edit, save to close it
  • Outline
    • Characters and places display on scene cards in outline view
  • Places
    • Paragraph type custom attributes
  • Menu
    • Help menu opens in a real browser so those pages are easier to use
    • “Save as?” opens the file immediately
    • View license key from menu
    • Export tab
    • Recent documents tab
  • Styling Updates
    • Timeline
    • Characters and places
    • Notes
    • Dark mode
  • General
    • Better error handling (no more flashing)
    • Persistent window screen size after file is closed and reopened

Bug Fixes

  • Dark mode error with new files
  • Windows bug verifying license
  • Mac bug on first-time launch
  • Number of note attachments
  • Outline filtering
  • Autofocusing with multiple paragraph custom attributes in characters
  • Fix exporting descriptions (not just a big format-less paragraph)

1.0 – 2017-10-01

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