It is very irritating for the spellcheck screen to pop up in the middle of the body of text. It obstructs the view and I have to click away multiple times to get it to disappear. It would be helpful to have it display in a side area, away from the text. Or have it be less sensitive to the mouse hover.

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.

There should be a feature where a subject/genre/prompt is chosen and people write a short story about it and submit it. After some time, a first-, second-, and third-place winner will be selected, or just one winner. There doesn't necessarily have to be money involved.

It would be nice to be able to turn chapters (off) in the word count while we draft. I'm considering adding a small chapter in between two larger chapters, but I haven't decided yet. To be able to mark a chapter, and turn it off in the word count while I work, think, and make that decision, would make my understanding of the word count pacing I have clearer so I can make the best decision about this part later.

It doesn't work and would be a lifesaver for me to be able to look for synonyms while writing, thank you.

It would be nice if users were able to comment under Reading Room articles and share their opinions on the subject of the article.

This then would mean we could keep nested notes under chapters for quick access.

To create more tabs and name it however it is fitting - for example "Work in Progress" , "Ideas" , "to work on later" etc...

I might be missing it but other writing resources like scrivener have editing resources (like strikethrough font option) and tracking words cut, and marking the status of each chapter (rough, editing, in progress, finished, etc kind of options for each chapter)

The analytics section already tracks the amount of time spent on each project, but it only shows the data to the writer in percentage form. If the app revealed the number of hours (per project or per week) that would help writers estimate how long it will take them to complete their project, or future projects. For professional writers, it would also be useful at tax time, if you need to say how long you've spent in your home office!

At the moment, the analytics page shows "words written" and "words deleted", but to work out how much longer (or shorter) the manuscript has gotten, the writer has to subtract the former from the latter manually. Gross words are great for cheering the writer on, but net words are important for working writers who need to know if they're on track to meet their deadlines.

Gamifying writing has always been very helpful for me. I love meeting the simple 250 daily goal I have and the 10k/month makes me push past that daily goal to beat it. Getting little cheers, badges, event stickers for meeting goals, participating, etc. etc. would be super fun; the dopamine is a great motivator!

My work gives out stickers for events attended that many people display on their water bottles. There's a lot of pride and community building that happens through this, as well as bragging rights because 'You were there? so was I! Remember when?"

Not being an American, it would be nice if the proof reading had an option to switch to British English

This would include importing comments made on a Word or Google Docs document which would appear as comments in Novlr, and also exporting comments made in Novlr to appear in exported documents.

Novlr could scan the manuscript and find repeated words or word combinations for review while weeding out uses of articles, conjunctions, 'be' verbs, etc. This would be helpful to avoid 58 accidental repetitions of phrases such as 'inner goddess.'

I often have specialist terminology and names in a book which I want to make sure are correct and consistent. Novlr's ability to add these words to a dictionary is almost perfect. Except that the words I define for one book (or series) should be spelling errors or typos in a different book.

I would love to have the ability to have different custom dictionaries for different projects.

I have been searching forever for a writing tool which offers this feature, and so far not found any!

An input form with the option to upload a picture and enter information about your character(s). The example I am basing this off is coming from Novel Factory. Something like that would help to flesh out characters prior to writing a new story.
It could be expanded over time with locations and a section for the worldbuilding related history.

I use temporary nested chapters to work on scenes in isolation, and I always copy over some text for context. It would be neat if I could make a nested chapter out of some text I selected in the parent chapter. ✌️
Something like "Split chapter", but for nested chapters.

We don't currently export notes, so it would be good to add this as an optional toggle.

Currently, our import will default to Untitled, and the date of import. If a document already has a title, it would be good to have that title imported directly without having to manually rename it.

When exporting to .docx (but not EPUB) writers would like to follow the style guide for submitting to publishers. This would mean changing chapter headings so they are centred, defaulting to double line spacing, and adding a header with the author's surname, book title and the page number in all caps (e.g. SURNAME/BOOK TITLE/PAGE 2).

The spacing between paragraphs is currently 1.5 lines so that paragraph breaks are clear for writers with both global indents on and off. Some writers would like to either toggle this on or off or, alternatively, have the paragraph spacing tied to indentation. i.e. no spacing with intents turned on, and extra spacing with indents turned off.

Integrate text-to-speech so writers can hear their work read out loud from directly inside Novlr. Useful for editing, and for additional accessibility.