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Type Tag for Feedback

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.

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Bring back some of the old systems
Resolved

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.

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Folders on top of the tagging system

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.

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More generic logos for website footers
In progress

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!

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RSS for blogs

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

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Downloading only chosen chapters

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.

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Customizable Analytics

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)

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habits for words added
Resolved

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! :)

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Colors for Custom Statuses

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

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Kudos/toasts more visible/different color

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! :)

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Unique share links

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

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List of most-used words

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!

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Bookmark where you left off writing

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.

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Keep your 'darlings' in a folder for later use
Shipped

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.

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Selection Word Count
Shipped

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

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Split screen
Shipped

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.

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Convert pasted text to smart quotes

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

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Add Header Formatting to Notes

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.

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Automatic Writing Summary
Resolved

I feel like it would be nice if as soon as you wrote something, you'd get to see a summary of it

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Beta reader features

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.

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See keyboard shortcuts on style-editor widget
Shipped

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)

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Week by Week Word Count Graph
Planned

It would be great if we could have the option to see our weekly progress on our projects through the word count graphs.

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Additional Popups for Writing Progress

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.

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Several Drafts

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!

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Multi-select chapters

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.

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