Improve the notebook by making it easier to browse a large collection of notes, both in the note book and on the right pane next to a manuscript. The proposed UI returns a folder-like structure to the UI while still supporting tags.

Three-pane notebook view

Persistent left sidebar with categories and tags replaces the filter pop-over; one click filters, counts show at a glance, and active filters appear as removable chips.
"Hide planning" becomes a greyed-out Planning entry rather than a checkbox in a menu.
Cards become compact rows (title, meta, tags), roughly tripling notes per screen.
Notes group under collapsible category headers, mirroring the old folder tree.
A reading pane shows the selected note in full; arrow keys move selection, so browsing needs no clicks.
Density toggle keeps the card view available as an option.

Right pane (manuscript view)

Filter pop-over removed; the pane top shrinks to a tab bar, a slim toolbar (search, sort, tag filter, collapse-all) and a status row that appears only when a filter is active.
Collapsible category headers with coloured dots and counts handle category filtering and browsing; collapse-all reduces 100 notes to seven lines.
Single-line rows (title, optional preview, tag, age) replace multi-line cards; word count drops to hover.
Tags chosen via a small picker show as removable chips, so active filters are always visible.
Full-width "Create Note" button becomes a plus icon in the tab bar, freeing height for more rows.
Planning-hidden shown as a quiet toggle in the status row.

I'm always working in evening mode and find the chapter highlight to be too subtle in daylight and virtually invisible at night. It would be great if the contrast could be improved as I'm currently editing and having to scroll up to the title to remind myself which chapter I'm in.
[Screenshot note - currently in chapter 5]

As I use export for daily backups it would be helpful if the modal remembered my last used settings, I'm every day selecting and toggling things on and off :(

It would be really nice and helpful if the subscriptions included a read back function. Even if it was a crappy AI voice it would be really helpful for reviewing chapters before writing again!

I would love to be able to see my pace and word counts done in sprints to be a separate analytic data set. See if I keep the same pace or if it changes.

when you start a new paragraph or after a full stop, it'd be very much appreciated if the first letter would be automatically in capital letter.

When sharing Snippets (or otherwise), paid subscribers should have the option to remove app attributions. This is a natural expectation in most apps.

It would be nice to add colours to the chapters in the sidebar. This would be helpful to colour-code which POV each chapter is, or to mark the status of chapters as I write (e.g. if it's finished vs. if I still need to go back and clean it up during this pass of a draft).

A type tag in notes for "feedback" would be helpful. When I get feedback on my writing, I like to keep it in notes. Being able to tag it as such, would be helpful.

Since the new changes it's been harder to set up word count tracking goals. I miss the way it was before. Being able to set a daily word count goal and a monthly word count goal. Also the formatting change was jarring. The spacing between lines, the font, it all looks different. Could you please add an option in settings to be able to put it back to the way it was? Also, the spell check is really great to have, but it would be nice to have an option to turn it off. The red lines popping up when I'm in an intense writing session throws me out of my thought train. I'd rather turn it off while writing, and then turn it back on at the end so I can go clean up my mistakes.

I wish the projects dashboard had a way to organize things into folders. I have a lot of projects but I wish there was a better way to hide the ones I am not currently working on. The tag system is nice but I would rather be able to put things in folders that represent certain worlds or genres! I want this on top of the tag system.

At the moment I'm using the Substack logo to link to my Ecosend newsletter, the Website logo to link to my RSS feed, and the Goodreads logo to link to my shop. It works, but it's a little embarrassing!

It would be great if the blogs had an RSS feed, so readers could subscribe!

I would personally find it extremely useful to be able to download checked chapters as one file. Now, I'm downloading single files and merging them into one outside of Novlr.

The projects page allows writers to include a large number of tags as well as add projects to collections, but at the moment the analytics can't be narrowed down to tags or collections. It would be excellent if we would be able to do this.

(I like keeping fanfic and original writing separate, and want to know individually how many words I've written in each of those groupings of projects)

Would love the option to create habits for words added, instead of words written. I write very back and forth, and use external sprint apps and copy and paste this work in, which doesn't count towards the habits, and backspace words when I'm trying to decide on language, which does, even though I haven't actually added words. When working towards 50k stretch goals and other monthly goals, using a daily habit to keep myself on track is useful, but at the moment it's not totally accurate. Being able to toggle it to words added would be super helpful! :)

The built-in statuses have colors, I'd love to be able to assign colors to my custom statuses as well.

In word processor mode especially, the kudos/toasts are hard to see as they're white background on white background. If their background were a different color, it would increase visibility. I vote for lavender! :)

Send unique share links to different people, with different chapters shared, etc.

A chart of words in a given manuscript or section with the number of times used. This can show us how many times we use specific words so we can trim them in editing!

It's not a big deal, but when I open a chapter it opens in the beginning, and since I'm writing long chapters, it's kind of repetitive to have to scroll down. What if we could "bookmark" where we left off writing (maybe in more than one chapter at once?) so it opens right on the spot we wanted.

In a few other programs writers have the ability to stack pieces of text in a temporary folder. You can even give titles to every bit of text. So, when you write your document and add a piece of text you like, but for some reason need to delete, with the stack you can set this text apart for later use.

To see the word count of just the section you have selected. just next to the document word count or something is perfect.

I don't know if this is already a feature, but I think it would be benifital for there to be a split screen. So that when writing, you could have your notes on one pop-up while on your draft.

When pasting text, convert all straight quotes to smart quotes, so they match the quotes typed in Novlr.