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

• 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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