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Writers Nook · the full tour

Seven rooms,
one door.

Every part of Writers Nook exists because a novel needed it. Below is the whole app, in the order you'd meet it — the page you write on, the binder that holds the draft, the bible that remembers your world, and the views that let you see the shape of the thing. Nothing here is a mockup: each panel is the real interface.

Contents
01The pagewrite 02The binderorder 03The story biblememory 04The relationship mapthreads 05Corkboard & outlinershape 06Goals & streakshabit 07Your filesyours
01
The page

A page that gets out of the way.

The editor is built on one idea: the sentence in front of you matters more than the toolbar. Formatting appears when you select text and leaves when you don't. The page is set in Literata, a typeface drawn for long reading, and you choose the measure, the line height, and the theme — including a soft dark study for late sessions.

Writers Nook
The Salt Year· saved just now
I · Low TideDrafting

The Causeway

1,840 words2 characters · 2 locations present

"You'll want different boots," was all he said.

The tide ran low against the morning, its one good engine coughing as Maren stepped onto the causeway. Thornwick rose out of the water the way she remembered it — grey, patient, and entirely too quiet for the news she carried.

She had left at nineteen with a duffel bag and a certainty she has never quite recovered. Tomas Reill was waiting at the top of the slip with his hands in his pockets, older in a way that made her feel older too.

1,840 words in scene
·
41,280 / 90,000 manuscript
Backed up · 2m ago
aFocus & typewriter modes keep your line centred
bMeasure, line height, and font to taste
cA soft dark theme for late sessions
dA paper-like page turn between scenes
02
The binder

Your manuscript, in order.

Chapters and scenes live in a clean outline down the left. Drag a scene into a different chapter, rename it in place, split a piece in two, or tuck a draft into the archive. The structure is always one glance away, and always yours to rearrange.

aDrag chapters, scenes & short pieces
bPer-scene status — idea, drafting, final
cSeveral projects, and an archive for what's resting
Manuscript3 chapters
I · Low Tide3
The Causeway1,840
An Empty Lighthouse2,110
What the Logbook Said980
Tomas Knows Something—
II · The Causeway Floods2
Cut Off1,204
The Other Keeper—
Short pieces1
Edda's letter, in full312
03
The story bible

A memory for your world.

Characters, locations, items, factions, themes, and lore each get a proper page — appearance, voice, history, relationships. Every entry links itself to the scenes it appears in, and a side panel shows exactly who is present in the scene you're writing right now. Book three will not forget the colour of her eyes.

Story bible
The Salt Year· 19 entries
People & groups
M
Maren Vale
Character · Protagonist
Left the island at nineteen. Came back for a funeral and a letter she wasn't meant to read.
12 scenes
T
Tomas Reill
Character · Keeper
Keeps the light, keeps the logbook, keeps his mouth shut.
7 scenes
§
The Tide Society
Faction · Islanders
Meets when the causeway is under. Keeps its minutes in pencil.
3 scenes
World & lore
◷
Thornwick Isle
Location · The island
Two hundred people, one road, and that road goes under twice a day.
9 scenes
✎
The Letter
Item · Recurring object
Unsigned, unsent, dated three days after Edda died.
4 scenes
◇
The Low Tide Bell
Lore · Island custom
Rung once when the road opens, twice when someone doesn't come back.
5 scenes
04
The relationship map

Every thread in the book, drawn.

Every relationship you note in the bible — kin, ally, rival, sworn enemy — becomes a labelled thread between entries. The whole web of the novel becomes something you can actually look at. This one is live: hover an entry to follow its ties.

Relationship map
05
Corkboard & outliner

See the whole arc at once.

Zoom out and your scenes become index cards — synopsis on the front, status colour at a glance. Move them into a new order to fix the pacing and the manuscript follows. Prefer rows to cards? The same structure flips into the outliner: a sortable table of every scene's status, synopsis, word count, and labels.

Corkboard
The Salt Year· 9 scenes
I · Low Tide
Drafting1,840
The Causeway
Maren returns to Thornwick three weeks after Edda's death, on the last tide before the road floods.
Maren ValeThe Causeway
Final2,110
An Empty Lighthouse
The keeper's quarters, cold and recently abandoned. Someone left the kettle on the ring.
Thornwick Isle
Drafting980
What the Logbook Said
A name Maren doesn't recognize, in handwriting she does.
Tomas Reill
Outlined—
Tomas Knows Something
He answers a question she didn't ask, which tells her plenty.
Tomas Reill
II · The Causeway Floods
Drafting1,204
Cut Off
The tide comes in. Whatever happens next happens with no way off the island.
Maren ValeThornwick Isle
To write—
The Other Keeper
Idea: the logbook has two hands in it, and only one keeper on the roll.
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Goals & streaks

A quiet nudge, never a nag.

Set a daily word target and Writers Nook keeps a gentle count. Hit it and the ring closes. Miss a day and nothing scolds you — the streak simply waits. There are no badges, no notifications, and nothing that treats your novel like a fitness app.

Today
0%
0 / 500 words
6-day streak · never nags
07
Your files

It's a folder on your disk.

No account is needed to write a word. Your manuscript is plain files in an open format, in a folder you chose, that you can open with anything. Point the app at your Dropbox or OneDrive and it backs itself up for free. Nothing of your novel is stored on our servers — not now, not with sync later.

~/Documents/The Salt Year
manuscript/
01-low-tide/
the-causeway.md
an-empty-lighthouse.md
what-the-logbook-said.md
02-the-causeway-floods/
cut-off.md
bible/
maren-vale.md
thornwick-isle.md
project.json
Open any of these in any editor. Delete the app tomorrow and the novel is still here.

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