ManuscriptsTwenty files. One book.

Making a manuscript

1. Open ☰ → All Manuscripts and click + New manuscript.
2. Give it a name, a total word count goal and a daily word goal. They start from the document you have open.
3. Tick every document that belongs to it, for example one Google Doc per chapter. Use ▲ and ▼ to put them in your book’s order.
4. Click Save.

A document can be in one manuscript at a time. A manuscript can mix editors, and documents from your other devices too, once sync is on.

How the words add up

Open any chapter and the Write tab shows the whole book: words today across all its documents, one total against one goal, one streak and one finish date. Move a scene from one chapter to another and it isn’t counted as new writing.

Each manuscript has its own reminders too (up to three), set in the same form.

The All Manuscripts dashboard

Every manuscript gets a card: its total against its goal, today’s words, its streak, its chapters, when you last worked on it and when you’ll finish at your recent pace. Sort them by most recent, most progress, most words or name.

Atticus and WordPress

In Atticus, a book becomes a manuscript by itself, with Atticus’s own target and daily goal. In WordPress, Falcontext offers to count every post in a category as one manuscript, drafts included.

Deleting one

Edit → Delete manuscript. Its documents keep all their tracked data; they just stop appearing together.

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