Our customers made these suggestions for improving Dabble. Suggestions for improving Dabble.
Script Writing Mode/Template
Hi! First of all, love the program, and would love to have a script writing format. I'm sure you get many comparisons to scrivener (both good and bad), but this ...
Allow the choice of indentation ("Tabbing") and a "Justify" style paragraph format.
The few paragraph style choices seem lack luster and aren't particularly nice to look at when writing or reading back was was written. Every time I get to the edge of ...
Under consideration
Editing
Ability to center text at any point with the novel.
Under consideration
Editing
Centering option for text
Under consideration
Editing
Improve Style and Grammar checking
Need a better system, it's making weird suggestions, that often don't make sense, and not catching the things that do need to be changed.
Under consideration
Editing
Small Caps
Small caps is a font convention used in text to reproduce the text found on signs and in logos or sometimes for abbreviations or introductory text. It lets the reader ...
Under consideration
Editing
Search for Multiple Criteria at Once
It would be really nice to have a search feature where you can search for multiple words at once (ie: find "smile" and "grin") to identify and edit out repetition of ...
Under consideration
Editing
The Suggest Edit Feature a la Google Docs instead of just Comments
This is the feature I use the most with my editors and copyeditors to save time. It is ideal to just be able to accept changes suggested instead of having to read a ...
Under consideration
Editing
Decrease Title Font Size
I"d like to be able to control the title font size so a longer word will fit on one line without orphaned letters going onto the next line
Under consideration
Editing
Preface/ Epilogue
It would be great to have the ability to have a preface without it being counted as chapter one.
Under consideration
Editing
Sidebar options/ split-screen
Whatever text or folder that is opened in the sidebar will stay in the sidebar but be expanded. Like Scrivener's split screen. For example, if you have world-building ...
Under consideration
Editing
An option to get rid of visual scene breaks
Those * * * between every scene when viewing the whole chapter really bother me because (even if I like to divide my story into scenes for plotting reasons) I don't ...
Under consideration
Editing
Better Formatting control: paragraph styles and such
I'd like to be able to assign paragraphs to a "style" or "class", to better control over the variety in visual flow of my novel… if that makes sense?
Under consideration
Editing
Customizable Text
I would like to be able to customize the text within my manuscripts. I like to put notes between the text as reminders to input information and research later. I ...
Under consideration
Editing
writing tools
To have more options for writers having more freedom to write comfortably with the ability of writing tools such as if we choose to put our writings in middle left or ...
Under consideration
Editing
Enable automated bullet lists and dialog lines
To mimic Word a bit. Being able to generate numbered or bulleted lists is helpful for writing notes about characters, story structure etc.
Being able to automate ...
Under consideration
Editing
New Format Options
I'm a sucker for centering my headings. And with the way I write it's pretty important to have that center option. I write the characters name or P.O.V. after the ...
Under consideration
Editing
Add space after paragraph
would it be possible to have a space added after paragraphs when writing? google docs has a feature where a space can be added after a paragraph/line and it really ...
Under consideration
Editing
more text editing abilities and a free account option with limited features
title explains it all
Recover History
It'll be helpful to recover history of a chapter text like you can when you delete notes and are able to recieve it from trash.
Under consideration
Editing
Last edited or written
I think it would be great if Dabble would pick up on the last thing that was typed in the novel section. Since everything is automatically saved, this should not be ...
Under consideration
Editing
Copy a scene
Ability to duplicate a scene. It's useful for heavy rewrites, so that I still have a backup of the old one. I can even later send it to the trash, without losing the ...
Under consideration
Editing
Adjust spell-check and grammar suggestions setting
Right now, I can turn on/off spell-check and grammar suggestions but I'd like to be able to adjust the settings on what to check and not check. I often write in a ...
Under consideration
Editing
Word List highlighting
I have a tendency to use some words a lot and I'd like Dabble to be able to highlight those words so when I use them I am alerted to them... I can do a find and it ...
Under consideration
Editing
Optional Breaks Between Scenes
Sometimes scenes are connected with transition text and not a section break. There should be an option (either globally or on a scene itself) to have no scene break.
Focus Feature Toggle On (Keep Menus Faded Even When Moving Around The Page)
I would love to be able to turn ON Focus to keep the all menus faded until I switch it OFF.
I often move between texts or paragraphs and the menus bobble back up ...
When adding quotation marks, single quotes, parentheses, ... Automatically add the endings
When adding quotation marks, single quotes, parentheses, ... Automatically add the endings, leaving the cursor positioned in the middle. Similar to roam and obsidian, ...
Under consideration
Editing
Free Text Formatting
Sounds like more formatting options, but in specific, allowing free text formatting using just tabs/spaces if nothing else would be a great boon. Less imitating Word ...
Under consideration
Editing
Large Scale Change Approval
If a manuscript suddenly loses say, 1,000 words or more, there could be a pop-up to confirm this change before syncing. Autosync is a great feature but if drastic ...
Scene Headings
a small text box before scenes. BOLD for MAJOR scenes and italic, more faded, or smaller for minor scenes.
Under consideration
Editing
Secondary Subtitle
I think there should be a Secondary Subtitle feature, like you can add a text box somewhere on the title page, like "Official Novel" or "Book One" or something like that.
ProWriteAid added
This editing program is awesome. I love it. There is no way to check anything in Dabble unless I copy/paste and put it in Word. Then I can run the scene through ...
Under consideration
Editing
Why does spell & grammar check only work some of the time?
When I log in and begin to write, the spell check and grammar check work. then after a while, it stops working. I log out and back in and that usually makes it start ...
Under consideration
Editing
Auto Tracking and Update Across Platform
Imagine, writing in your manuscript an amazing seen. This scene features certain characters, places, and details that you want to have in hour character profile, or ...
Paragraph cut-off
a way to suggest an end of a paragraph so we're not just continuously writing in run-on sentences.
Under consideration
Editing
Wattpad.com has a good basic writing software --- why not copy that? (as close as you can)
There are some additions that you could use from Scrivener, plotting concepts, character concepts. I really like the basic LOOK of the Wattpad.com writing section -- ...
Under consideration
Editing
An editor comparable to Microsoft Word and Zoho writer.
Under consideration
Editing
Word tuning
An app that allows us to highlight a few words or a sentence and then click a button to get suggestions for better word placement. There is an app called Wordtuner, ...
Hotkeys or replace while typing (especially for dialogues)
Although for English-written novels the common choice for dialogue is the use of "these" or 'these' quotes, in other languages it is more common to use «these» or the ...
Under consideration
Editing
Passive Voice Detection
I think a really great tool for writers would be automatic passive voice detection. I find myself using the "by zombies" method as much as the next person, but to ...
Under consideration
Editing