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.
The Notes area would be far more useful if there was a way to format using headers (header 1, header 2, header 3, etc.) within the note.
I feel like it would be nice if as soon as you wrote something, you'd get to see a summary of it
This would go along with the sharing document, but it would create a separate document for each person it's shared to, and they can make comments on it.
It would be helpful to see the shortcuts on the style-editor (for example, I know I can hit ctrl+i for italic, but I don't know how to add a comment with a shortcut)
It would be great if we could have the option to see our weekly progress on our projects through the word count graphs.
An optional feature that triggers a small popup every 200 words written – e.g. “200 words reached! Keep going!” This provides instant visual feedback, helps break writing into achievable milestones, and boosts motivation. Inspired by the marble method from Atomic Habits, it’s great for writing sprints, NaNoWriMo, and building consistent writing habits.
So I’m new to no or, so I’m not sure if you already have this feature, but if you do, it’s quite difficult to find. I was wondering if you could implement something where you can add a new draft. So i for example, I like rewriting until my 3rd drafts instead of editing, So I was hoping you could add something like that? Maybe a box that says “add another manuscript” or something.
Anyway, that’s for reading, and I’m enjoying using the app so far!
When selecting chapters in the sidebar to drag and reorder, it would be so useful to be able to multi-select them so you don't have to click and drag them one at a time.
I love the formatting and this platform in general for my books. I am a fulltime writer but over 50% of my writing is in script work. I'd love to see what you guys could do a script writing feature in the future because paying for the larger subscriptions through you here would be so much better than paying for two platforms. Especially because the other platforms tend to cause migraines and this one never has.
When you add a new chapter in your novel, all chapters directly after move up by 1. This would solve for both numbered and word chapters.
It would be awesome to have a format similar to https://comicwriter.io/ implemented in a template. It used to write comics with clear formating how the artist should intrepret the page. The name of this format is called Fred Van Lente's formatting.
I really wish that this amazing website could be completely free with no extra features that you have to pay for. As an unemployed new writer I simply cannot afford the features that would be extremely helpful to me
In the planning section, allow users to change the colour of the notecards - this would be useful to visualize where character POV's change
I write a lot of fiction/fantasy/poetry, as well as play around with neopronouns (eg: xe/xyr), and while I can click 'ignore' on the spelling or grammar check, it inevitably comes back when I change chapters or open the project again a different day. It would be amazing if I could, for a project, 'accept' a word or phrasing and have it not be flagged again in that project.
I'm working on one now, and the main character is currently using xe/xyr pronouns, and it's a bit difficult for me to sift through all the red marks when I'm trying to find an actual mistake.
I would love to be able to add tables.
Add an optional celebration animation on reaching your daily word target (similar to closing rings on an Apple Watch but maybe exploding letters or something more apt). The dopamine hit will make people want to achieve it.
Let writers choose dark, light, or system adaptive modes for website creation. This will show the site to visitors based on the writer's selected preference.
It would be great if I could 'expand' the planning section so it showed all the synopses as a single document, so I could read the entire outline of the story. Also the ability to export the expanded view.
The chapter by chapter planning cards could provide a useful editable synopsis if they could be exported in the same way as the notes.
Chapter numbering is built into the planning tool, but not the side bar. To have your chapter # present in the side bar view, you must include it in your chapter title. This makes things messy if you end up editing or re-ordering things.