Features - Plottr

The Features You Need To Plan Your Books... Fast!

Yes, All of These Features are Included in Plottr!

Visual Timelines

Plottr's easy-to-use drag & drop visual timelines let you create eye-pleasing plots that are built to help you outline better, faster.

Drag & Drop

Like a digital corkboard, easily move your scenes, story lines, and cards to create your story timeline.

Multiple Plot Lines

Setup your main plot points alongside subplots, character arcs and more to track your entire story.

Color Picker

Color-coordinate your story lines to keep them organized and easy to find.

Plot Cards

Organize your story beats with our flexible cards to connect story details, characters, places, and tags.

Story Filters

Quickly filter your timelines by multiple criteria to easily see who's doing what, where, and when!

Multiple Views

Flip the timeline vertically or horizontally to easily visualize your story the way you like it.

Story Bibles

It's time to ditch the index cards. Use Plottr to track your characters and places. Brainstorm with notes and stay organized with tags.

Characters

Create a full character bio customized to your story. Sort and filter by your custom attributes.

Custom Attributes

Add as many custom fields as you need to track specific details of your characters and places.

Notes

Keep all your notes in one place. Build your world and brainstorm what's important to your story.

Sort & Filter

Quickly filter and sort your characters, places, and notes by a wide range of criteria.

Places

Save all the important details of your locations so you can easily reference them when writing.

Images

Add images of your characters and places that inspire your writing process.

Series View

Writing a whole series? Create a timeline and outline for the series as well as each individual book.

Starter Templates

Plottr comes with 14 templates (and counting!) based on proven storytelling structures to help you kickstart your writing project.

The Hero's Journey

Based on the classic writings of scholar Joseph Campbell.

Story Circle

Plot theory by Dan Harmon, creator of “Community” & “Rick and Morty.”

Romancing the Beat

A popular romance plot structure based on the book by Gwen Hayes.

Shōnen Manga

The most popular and bestselling form of manga (e.g. Dragon Ball.)

12 Chapter Mystery

The classic formula for writing scintillating mystery novels.

And More!

That's not all, folks! Download Plottr to discover all our templates.

Time-Saving Tools

Spend more time writing and less time worrying about everything else. These tools take the headache out of outlining.

Automated Outlines

Plottr automatically generates an outline for you based on the content of your visual timelines.

Export to Word & Scrivener

Export the outline and all your notes to a Word doc that can easily be imported to Scrivener.

Scrivener Sync (Coming Soon!)

Integrate your Plottr outline directly with Scrivener, so you can keep both projects in sync.

Autosave

Your work is automatically saved so you never lose a thing — and works with Dropbox, iCloud, G-Drive, etc.

Character Templates

Create characters based on a variety of established character sheets — or build your own templates!

Revisions / Drafts (Coming Soon!)

Save snapshots of your timeline drafts so that you can review them later in a pinch.

Actively Developed

Plottr is actively developed by its team. We're proud to work with the author community and look forward to growing with you!

Always Evolving

We're always adding new features to Plottr based on the feedback we receive from the community.

Helpful Support

We aim to respond to all questions, feedback, and support requests within 24 hours — or less!

Feedback Friendly

With Plottr, your feedback is always a top priority. Vote on our roadmap and let us know what you want!

Autoupdate Enabled

Whenever a new version is released, you'll receive it automatically while you have an active license.

Intuitive Design

We've built Plottr with ease of use in mind, and all development decisions are guided by that principle.

Facebook Group

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