Revising

Drafting and revising want different tools. Drafting wants one Scene and a low chrome bar. Revising wants the whole shape of a Folder, the ability to rearrange, and notes you can leave for tomorrow’s self.

Trove gives revision its own surfaces.

Folio

A Folio combines all the Scenes inside a Folder into one continuous scroll. Each Scene keeps its own file on disk and saves independently — the Folio is a read-and-edit lens, not a merge.

Switch to Folio in the editor’s view switcher, or run Open folio… from the Command Palette.

trove · The Circus · Brotherhood - Ordinances

Use Folio when you want to:

• Read end-to-end without losing your place between Scenes.
• Catch transitions between scenes — the seams between files become visible.
• Edit prose continuously without remembering which chapter you’re in.

Folio is what other tools call “Scrivenings” or “long view”. Trove calls it Folio. (See the glossary.)

Board

The Board is the planning surface — index cards, plus Outline, Timeline, and POV views over the same Scenes.

trove · Bridgepoint · Board

Drag cards to reorder Scenes. Drag a card onto an Act strip to group it — Acts map to Folders on disk. Switch to Outline for an act-grouped table with inline-editable status, POV, synopsis, and word-goal columns. The full tour is in Board.

For through-lines rather than structure — does the mystery sag in the middle? — see Arcs. For “where has this character been for six chapters?”, see Appearances.

Sticky Notes

A Sticky Note is a small typed, coloured note attached to the editor for a single Scene. Pin one with the Sticky icon in the toolbar.

Sticky Notes live in a sidecar next to the Scene. They don’t appear in the prose, they don’t compile out. Good for:

• Revision TODOs (“fix the dialogue in the middle scene”).
• Continuity reminders (“check Tomas’s age”).
• Colour-coded passes (rose = cut, amber = expand, green = good as-is).

Comments

A Comment is an inline annotation on a specific text range. The text stays put; the comment shows in the gutter and in the comments rail.

Use Comments when you want feedback to stay anchored to a specific sentence — and Sticky Notes when you want a free-floating reminder.

Both go away cleanly when you resolve or delete them. Neither leaks into the compiled output.

Snapshot before a big change

Right-click a Scene → Snapshot draft before you do something irreversible-feeling. The Draft is a read-only copy under .snapshots/. See Drafts and snapshots for the full picture.

Reading it fresh

Two editor tools earn their keep in revision: Read aloud (⌘ ⇧ R) — hearing your prose finds the clunky sentences your eyes skip — and the Readability panel’s style snapshot. Both in Editor tools and Read aloud.

Search

⌘ K opens the Command Palette. Beyond commands, it searches full text — titles and body content across your Scenes, Entities, and Tome Notes. Hit ↵ to jump straight there. Save a search you’ll run again as a Collection.