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Revising

Drafting and revising want different tools. Drafting wants one Document 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

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

Open a Folder from the binder and click the Folio mode in the toolbar (or ⌘⇧F).

trove · The Riverlands · Act Two
Folio view of an entire Act stitched into one scroll

Use Folio when you want to:

  • Read end-to-end without losing your place between Documents.
  • Catch transitions between scenes — the seams between Documents 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.)

Corkboard

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The Corkboard is a card-based layout view of a Manuscript. One card per Document, with the Document’s synopsis on the face.

trove · Bridgepoint · Corkboard
Corkboard with index cards grouped into Acts

Drag cards to reorder Documents. Drag a card onto an Act strip to group it. Acts are visual groupings on the Corkboard; they map to Folders on disk.

The Corkboard is the right surface when you want to rearrange the spine of a Project — moving scenes between Acts, splitting a fat chapter, cutting a scene to a draft Folder.

Outline

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The Outline is the structural counterpart to the Corkboard. Where the Corkboard shows cards, the Outline shows nested Documents with their status, word count, and synopsis in a flat table.

Open from the toolbar (Outline icon) or ⌘⇧O. Filter by status; jump to any Document by clicking.

trove · Bridgepoint · Outline
Outline view showing all Documents with status and word count

Sticky Notes

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

Sticky Notes live in a .sticky.json sidecar next to the Document. 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

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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

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Right-click a Document → 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.

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⌘K opens the command palette. Beyond just commands, it’ll search:

  • Document titles.
  • Entity names.
  • (Coming) full-text Document content.

Hit Enter to jump straight there.