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Quire
Story
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Planning board
Relationship map
Milestones
Trim version history…
Chapter statuses…
Find and replace…
Import chapters…
Overview
Stats
Sprint
Search
Save file
Leave focus mode
Options
Help and info
Export
Manuscript as
Word manuscript
Word document
E-book
Web page
Markdown
Text
Sheets and notes as Markdown (.md)
Print or save as PDF
AO3 sharing
Adds “Share on AO3” under each chapter: copy the text for AO3 and open the right page there. Quire never connects to AO3 itself.
Saving and backups
Download as an offline file (.html)
Remind me to save the file
When work has gone unsaved for longer than this:
5 min
10 min
30 min
Back up
This story
All stories
Restore from a backup…
Send for review…
Bring in a review…
Encryption
Encrypt this file
Save file locks the notebook inside the HTML file with a password. Opening the file asks for it.
Change the file’s password…
Encrypt backups
Each backup asks for a password and can’t be read without it.
Look
Theme
Light
Twilight
Dark
Sepia
Lamplight
Ember
Text size
Small
Medium
Large
Text column
Narrow
Medium
Wide
Full
Page width
Narrow
Medium
Wide
Full
Load typefaces from Google Fonts
Off: Quire stays offline and uses the fonts on this computer. On: Quire’s own typefaces and more fonts in the font menu, built into the manuscript web page when you export it.
Indent paragraphs
Book style: each paragraph starts with an indent instead of a gap. Printing and the web page export follow it.
Layout
Navigation
Sidebar
Tabs
Sidebar categories…
Buttons above the text…
Field hints
Full
Subtle
Off
Color chapters by status
Chapter lists show each chapter’s status as a color, with a strip of the whole manuscript on top.
Chapter statuses…
Highlight characters, places and beats
Bold, colored name chips on chapters and story arcs, easier to spot.
While writing
Intense focus
Focus mode shows only the text, its toolbar and the buttons above it. Esc brings everything back.
Typewriter scrolling
Keeps the line you’re writing in the middle of the screen.
Sprint above the text
Shows a running sprint above the text you’re writing. In focus mode, also a button to start one.
Word count above the text
Counts as you type, in focus mode too.
Progress bar under the text
During a sprint, or when a chapter has a word target, a slim bar stays at the bottom of the screen.
Ask before splitting a chapter
Show a confirmation when you use the split button.
Typing
Smart quotes
Turn " and ' into typographic quotes as you type. Ctrl+Z right after gives the straight one back.
Quote style
“English”
„German“
« French »
Em dashes
Turn -- into —
Ellipses
Turn ... into …
Checks and marks
Prose checker
A toolbar button that marks what to revise. Full adds word echoes and dialogue to Hemingway’s rules.
Off
Hemingway
Full
Watch words
Words and phrases you want to notice, such as a habit to avoid or a fact to keep straight. A small note appears beside the line when you type one.
Edit watch words…
Passage tags
How tagged passages show in the text. Off hides them while you write; the tags stay.
Bar in the margin
Underline
Off
Speaker marks
How lines marked with Who says this show in the text. Off hides them while you write; the marks stay.
Bar in the margin
Underline
Off
Stats detail
How much the Stats page shows. In depth adds rhythm, openers, punctuation, repeated phrases and more.
Basic
Standard
In depth
Stats tiles
Plain
Gauges
Chapter history
Snapshot after a pause in writing of
Off
30s
1m
2m
5m
10m
Thin out old versions
Off keeps every version forever. On keeps all from the last day, then hourly, daily and weekly ones, as chapters change.
Thin now
Applies that rule to every chapter of this story right away.
Include history in saved and downloaded files
Compressed. Off keeps the file smaller; the history then stays only in this browser.
Opening your notebook…
Save file
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