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Writefully So

Your First Project

Once you’ve installed Writefully So and completed the workspace setup, you’re ready to start writing.

Creating a Project

Section titled “Creating a Project”

The main dashboard showing all your projects

  1. Open Writefully So
  2. Click New Project on the dashboard
  3. Give your project a name (e.g., “My Novel”)
  4. Choose a starting point:
    • Blank Slate creates an empty project.
    • A genre template creates a suggested chapter structure, starter characters, and world entries.
    • A Love Between Two Worlds is a ready-made showcase project you can explore without touching your own work.

The current project template picker

  1. Click Create Project. You’ll land on the Project Overview.

The Project Overview for the built-in showcase project

The overview is your project home. It combines your word goal, daily writing goal, warm-ups, chapter list, recent work, cast, world entries, analysis tools, exports, and backup status.

The Interface

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The Writefully So interface showing the binder and editor

Writefully So is organized around a sidebar on the left and your content area on the right.

Section titled “Sidebar Sections”
  • Chapters — Your manuscript’s chapters. Click one to open it in the editor.
  • Characters — Character profiles for your cast.
  • Codex — World-building entries (locations, lore, items, magic).
  • 3D World Builder — A sculptable terrain workspace with land/ocean tiles, landmarks, labels, and story pins.
  • Maps — Legacy 2D visual maps for drawings, uploaded images, and annotations.
  • Timelines — Event timelines for your story.

You can drag chapters and story elements into folders—even while a folder is collapsed. Folder counts and binder rows update immediately after a move.

Working Area

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The right side shows whatever you’ve selected — a chapter in the editor, a character profile, a map, etc. You can open a split pane to view two items side by side.

Split-pane view with two items side by side

Writing Your First Chapter

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  1. In the sidebar, click + New Chapter (or the add button in the Chapters section)
  2. Give it a title
  3. Start writing in the editor

The editor supports rich text formatting through the toolbar or keyboard shortcuts:

  • Bold: Cmd/Ctrl + B
  • Italic: Cmd/Ctrl + I
  • Heading: Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + 1/2/3

What’s Next?

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