quire

Changelog

1.6 (2026-11-02)

• Planning board (Story ▾ → Planning board): a free board for each story with idea cards and cards for chapters, characters, places, notes and story arcs. Connect cards with lines (drag from ●, or tap ● and then the other card), label the lines, pan and zoom, and Arrange as tree on a click, with Undo. Relationship lines between character cards, idea cards that become chapters or notes, a list view for the keyboard, and Save as image for printing.
• Relationship map (Story ▾, or under a character’s Relationships): the characters and their relationships as a picture, with a list below.
• Review rounds: Send for review… makes a review copy of a story for someone else’s Quire; Bring in a review… (or restoring the returned file) turns each changed chapter into a draft named after the reviewer, to merge change by change, and lists changed sheets side by side to take or leave. Word files with tracked changes and comments work too. A returned review copy never overwrites your story.
• Your own chapter statuses (Story ▾ → Chapter statuses…): rename, add, remove and reorder them, each with one of ten colors that fit every theme, or none.
• Front and back matter on the story overview: dedication, epigraph, acknowledgments and about the author, placed correctly in the Word document, the e-book and the web page.
• Word goal per day or per week, beside the target and deadline, in Stats and the progress bar.
• Going back: “← Back to …” above the page after any page change, Alt+← and Alt+→, and the browser’s Back and Forward buttons (and the back swipe on phones) in a downloaded Quire.
• Stats: every section folds and Quire remembers; a new order from progress to shape, cast and places, prose and tags; gauges for values with a natural range (Options → Checks and marks → Stats tiles switches to plain numbers).
• Voices: each character is compared with the whole manuscript by default, with what stands out; a Thoughts view from passages tagged as a character’s thoughts (the tag button → Thoughts of), which no longer count as narration; “What Voices measures” explains the figures.
• Sense words: leave out words of Quire’s own lists (feel, feels, feeling and felt start out left out, since they’re mostly about emotions), and notes under each box point out doubles.
• Options menu regrouped into nine sections that fold: Export, Saving and backups, Encryption, Look, Layout, While writing, Typing, Checks and marks, Chapter history. Quote style only shows with smart quotes on.
• Find and replace from a chapter starts on This chapter, with All chapters and Everything in this story beside it. (Before, “Chapter text” meant every chapter’s text.)
• Relationship tags: a ⇄ on tags that look like a relationship, wherever they show as chips, and the switch at the top of a #tag search.
• Foldable sections have clearer headings with a turning arrow and a bigger tap area.
• Phones: a notebook opened from an app such as Dropbox on Android now saves under the name it was last saved with (or the story’s title) instead of a random one, says it’s a new copy, and finds unsaved work again when the app hands out a new link.
• Quire is now about 1,020 KB, up from 925 KB.

1.5.1 (2026-11-01)

• Read-through (Story ▾ → Read through): the whole manuscript as one read-only text. Select words and press Comment, and the comment lands in that chapter.
• Relationships from both sides: a character’s sheet shows what other sheets say about them, with “Add the other side” to answer. With three or more rows, show them A–Z or in your own order (drag, or ↑ ↓).
• Trim version history: in a chapter’s Version history, or for the whole story (Story ▾), keep one version per day, one per week, or only named versions and the latest. “Thin now” applies the automatic thinning right away.
• Encrypted browser copy: with “Encrypt this file” on, the working copy and history Quire keeps in the browser are encrypted with the same password. Opening an older copy whose password differs asks for the newer password to bring newer work in.
• Sidebar categories (Options → Display): hide the categories a story doesn’t need right now, and optionally show them in two columns.
• Walls of text: for the whole manuscript, paragraph density lists the places with three or more complex or dense paragraphs in a row, instead of thousands of dots.
• Narration check: “This is fine” hides a chapter’s note (useful for text messages and letters) until it gets more sentences like those; examples are shown exactly as written.
• Your own fields on the story overview, too.
• Places: “Also known as” moved to the top of the sheet, as on characters.
• Fixed: line breaks hidden inside pasted paragraphs (invisible in the editor) cut sentences in two for the stats and the narration check. Quire now stores them as the spaces you see.
• Fixed: a tag typed with spaces before the # kept the #.
• Fixed: Save file could leave out the newest version-history step.

1.5 (2026-10-31)

• Story time: real dates, plain days (“Day 3”) or a calendar of your own, with months, weekdays, eras and leap years, plus time labels like “The Long Winter”. A chapter’s Calendar switch picks its time from the story’s calendar, with an optional end. Scenes can have their own time (a clock on the scene-break label), and the Story timeline shows them indented, marks flashbacks and flags anything outside the story’s span. Times can go into the Word document, e-book and web page.
• Undo for everything in the text: Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z / Ctrl+Y now cover Quire’s own changes too (speaker marks, passage tags, comments, alignment, Fix quotes, scene labels, Clear formatting), in order with your typing, in every browser. Messages after those actions have an Undo button for phones.
• Who says this, faster: the panel stays open while you mark line after line, Next unmarked line jumps ahead, and with a keyboard 1–9 pick a speaker and N moves on. Marks show as a dotted bar in the right margin instead of underlining the text (Options → Text → Speaker marks). Select text and remove every mark inside it at once.
• Links: the [[ ]] button makes the selected name a link, or starts an empty one with suggestions; typing [[ does the same. Links also find entries by their “also known as” names.
• Your own fields on characters, places, notes, chapters and story arcs: one line, longer text, a choice list, a number or a date, for one story or all of them.
• Milestones (Story ▾ → Milestones): name the current version of every chapter at once, compare a chapter with it, or bring a chapter back.
• Several chapters at once: Select, tick (Shift-click for a range), then set status, type, tags or time, move them to the trash, or drag them as a block.
• Title image on the story overview, usable as the e-book cover (or behind the title) and at the start of the Word document and web page.
• Senses in Voices count whole words with a much larger word list, so “human” no longer counts as a sound and smells are no longer crowded out. Shown per 1,000 words, with the words counted, and you can add your own sense words.
• Clear formatting keeps the font and comments and removes everything else, including speaker marks and passage tags.
• Menus: the viewpoint and cast menus list protagonists (and deuteragonists) first, then antagonists, then the chapter’s cast, A–Z within each.
• Relationship tags: a switch on a tag’s page decides whether it counts as a relationship, for tags like Hurt/Comfort.
• Sidebar: the New button, status strip and order switch stay in place while the chapter list scrolls.
• The download no longer contains any of the code the hosted copy in Claude uses, and carries a security rule that blocks every connection except Google Fonts. Help and the README explain what the file can contact.
• Printing a story shows video and music embeds as links instead of loading the players.
• Fixed: the Point of view field overlapped itself when a chapter had two or more viewpoints.
• Fixed: on phones under 400 px, the Reference and Watch words buttons above the text were empty.
• Help explains saving over your file in Firefox, and the difference between speaker marks and scene labels.

1.4.2 (2026-10-29)

• Fixed: changing the font of text that already had one (from Quire’s font menu, or pasted from Google Docs or Word, which bring Arial or Times New Roman along) looked right but didn’t save, so the old font came back on reopening. “Default font” now removes a pasted font for good, too.
• Quire now uses American English throughout: color, center, favorite and so on. The Bin is now called Trash. Saved files and backups are unchanged.
• Punctuation stats call ( ) parentheses.

1.4.1 (2026-10-28)

• Watch words above the text: a Watch words button sits above every text, and watch words can now be set for one chapter (or note or sheet) only, for things that matter there for a while.
• Buttons above the text: Focus mode and full screen sit together again. Options → Display → Buttons above the text… changes the order of the buttons and which ones show.
• Toolbar: alignment and indent now sit right after the headings.
• Highlighting now covers arc beat chips too, which were hard to read on dark themes.
• The French quote style’s label shows the narrow spaces Quire types inside « ».
• Fixed: Help gave Quire’s size as 770 KB.

1.4 (2026-10-28)

• Reference panel: the Reference button above a text keeps a character, place, note, story arc or another chapter in view while you write, with the chapter’s own cast and places listed first. Short fields can be edited in the panel. On wide screens it sits beside the text and stays open from chapter to chapter; on smaller ones it slides over the text.
• Go to (Ctrl+K): type a few letters to jump to any entry, tag or story, or to run a command such as New chapter, an export or a theme. Shift+Enter shows the chosen entry in the reference panel.
• Cast check: under a chapter’s characters and places, Quire lists those named in its text but missing from the lists, with how often they appear, and adds them with one click. It matches names exactly, plus the names under Also known as, which places now have too.
• Fixed: Help said Quire was about 650 KB.

1.3 (2026-10-28)

• Trash: deleting a chapter, sheet, note, story arc or whole story moves it to the trash (Story ▾ → Trash) for 30 days, with Undo right after. Restoring brings it back with its links, viewpoints, cast lists, arc beats and speaker marks. The trash stays in the saved file but out of backups, exports and search.
• Import from Word: Import chapters reads .docx files. Chapters start at headings (in any language of Word) or at lines like “Chapter 3”; italics, bold, centered lines, lists, links, images and scene breaks come along, Word comments become Quire comments, tracked changes count as accepted and footnotes go at the end of their chapter.
• E-book export: an EPUB for e-readers and reading apps, with a table of contents, scene breaks, images, a title page and an optional cover with the title and byline. Checked against EPUBCheck, the official validator.
• Deadline: add a date beside the story’s target length to see the words a day it takes, today’s progress toward that share, and where your recent pace would land.
• Chapter cards show each chapter’s viewpoint, places and arc beats, and can show the whole synopsis.
• Fixed: low contrast on “(optional)” in the Word document settings.

1.2 (2026-10-27)

• Your own themes: pick four colors (paper, text, background and accent) or start from a preset; Quire works out the other shades, previews them live and checks the text stays readable. Save as many named themes as you like.
• Word document: a second Word export that looks like your story, with your typeface, size and spacing, real Word headings, book-style or spaced paragraphs, scene breaks, images, an optional title page and page numbers. Word manuscript is unchanged.
• Watch words: list words and phrases to notice, for every story or just one, with an optional note. Typing one shows a small note beside the line that fades by itself; the Prose checker marks them all.
• Voices (Stats): how each viewpoint character narrates, compared side by side, with distinctive words, favorite phrases, sentence rhythm, senses and chapter-by-chapter drift.
• Who says this: mark a line of dialogue with its speaker from the toolbar. Once a line is marked, Voices compares how your characters speak, from the lines you’ve marked only. Quire never guesses a speaker.
• Also known as on character sheets, for other names a character goes by.

1.1 (2026-10-26)

• Encryption: optional password protection for backups and for the saved file, with AES-256-GCM and a key derived by PBKDF2-SHA-256 (600,000 rounds), all done by the browser. Encrypted files open behind a lock screen.
• Password meter: rates a new password as you type, estimates how long guessing it would take, and warns about common passwords, years and names from your own story.
• Scene viewpoints: with two or more viewpoint characters, a label at the start of a chapter and at each scene break says whose scene it is. The chapter shows how its words divide between them, and Stats uses the same split.
• Status colors (Options → Display): chapters colored by status, with a strip of the whole manuscript, each block as wide as its chapter.
• Tag suggestions: the tag box suggests existing tags and entries as you type; picked entries become linked chips, listed under “Tagged in” on the entry.
• Search in Help: a search field at the top of Help shows only the passages that match, marks the words, and steps through them with Enter or the arrow buttons.
• Fixes from stress testing: text typed in the last instant before closing or reloading the page is no longer lost; damaged or hostile backups can’t break the page; files that only pretend to be images are refused; very long words no longer push exported web pages and the Tags page sideways; story arc menus fit 320-pixel phones; a save error on one entry is no longer hidden when another saves fine.

1.0 (2026-10-24)

First public release.

• Writing: rich-text editor with book-style indents, smart quotes in three styles, focus mode in two stages with full screen, typewriter scrolling, six themes, and picking up where you left off.
• Sprints and targets: timed sprints with word goals, word targets per chapter and story, a progress bar at the bottom of the screen, and a word count for any selection.
• Drafts and history: drafts with change-by-change merging that can be undone, and version history with replay and named versions.
• Planning: sheets for the story, chapters, characters, places and notes; story arcs on a tension curve; [[links]] with backlinks; tags for entries, images and passages, with passage threads in story order.
• Revising: a Prose checker (readability, adverbs, passive voice, wordy phrases, word echoes, dialogue), comments, and stats from basic to in-depth.
• Saving and sharing: everything saved inside the HTML file; exports to Word manuscript format, web page, Markdown, plain text, print and PDF; optional AO3 sharing; backups and chapter import.
• Example story: two chapters of Conan Doyle’s “The Red-Headed League” with every feature filled in.

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