Ubiquitous language
Trove uses a precise vocabulary. The same word always means the same thing — in the app, in the docs, and in support conversations.
Project
Section titled “Project”A manuscript container. Holds one Manuscript, optional Notes, optional Entities, and a manifest pointing at zero or one World. Status values: drafting, outlining, complete, on-hold. On disk at ~/documents/trove/projects/<slug>/.
A reusable library of Entities (characters, locations, factions, …) that one or more Projects can link to. On disk at ~/documents/trove/worlds/<slug>/.
Manuscript
Section titled “Manuscript”The writable Document tree inside a Project. Always a structural noun — never used for a single piece of writing.
Document
Section titled “Document”A single Markdown leaf inside a Manuscript. Has a workflow status (todo | draft | active | done), optional POV, story-time, location, and zero or more Drafts.
Folder
Section titled “Folder”A group of Documents and sub-Folders inside a Manuscript.
A versioned snapshot of a Document. Read-only after creation.
Entity
Section titled “Entity”A structured record (character, location, faction, item, …) scoped to either a Project or a World. TOML/Markdown frontmatter plus a free-form Markdown body.
Entity Type
Section titled “Entity Type”Category metadata for Entities — icon, colour, scope (project or world), optional default Template.
Template
Section titled “Template”A reusable starter for a Document or an Entity — a field set with default values.
Corkboard
Section titled “Corkboard”A visual card-based layout view of a Manuscript. Cards may be grouped into Acts.
Sticky Note
Section titled “Sticky Note”A small typed, coloured note attached to the editor for a single Document.
The user-wide notes feature: a graph of free-form Markdown files (Tome Notes) with backlinks, wikilinks, and folder organisation. Tome lives at the user level — it is not scoped to one Project.
Tome Note
Section titled “Tome Note”A single free-form Markdown file in the Tome. Backlinks and outlinks between Tome Notes are first-class.
A composite view of a Manuscript Folder’s descendant Documents as a single continuous scroll. Each Document keeps its own file on disk and saves independently.
Sprint
Section titled “Sprint”A timed writing session with a word goal.
Session
Section titled “Session”The broader writing-time tracker that aggregates words across a Sprint or free writing.
Soft-delete container. Items remain on disk under .trash/ until explicitly purged.
Compilation
Section titled “Compilation”Export of a Manuscript to a final format (DOCX, EPUB, ZIP, plain Markdown bundle). Verb form: compile.
License, Activation, Trial
Section titled “License, Activation, Trial”Trove is sold as a lifetime License. A License is trial (14 days from first launch), licensed (a paid activation is present and validated), or expired (no valid activation and the trial window has elapsed). An Activation binds one machine to a License Key. Files always remain visible regardless of state — expiry only switches the editor to read-only.