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

Yes, All of These Features are Included in Plottr!

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Visual Timelines

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

Scene Cards

Visually organize your project with cards to link story details, characters, places, and tags.

Custom Templates

Use proven starter templates to plan your story, or simply create and save your own.

Unlimited Plotlines

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

Colors Galore

Color-coordinate your plotlines and scene cards to keep things organized the way you like it.

Story Filters

Filter your story by multiple criteria to easily see who's doing what, where, and when!

Multiple Views

Flip the timeline, zoom out, and more to visualize your narrative the way you like it.

Scene Attributes

Track individual details at the scene level, including POV, character goals, and more.

Scene Stacks

Create stacks of scenes within your chapters or beats – just like using index cards.

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.

Notes

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

Places

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

Custom Attributes

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

Sort & Filter

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

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.

Shōnen Manga

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

Romancing the Beat

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

Story Circle

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

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.

Character Templates

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

Autosave

Your files are automatically saved locally so you never lose a thing — and native cloud syncing is on the way!

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.

Autoupdate Enabled

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

Helpful Support

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

Intuitive Design

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

Feedback Friendly

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

Facebook Group

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Visual Timelines	Plottr 2.0
Drag & Drop Editor
Plot Cards
Scenes
Plot Lines
Color Picker
Multiple Views
Sort & Filter