Our customers made these suggestions for improving Dabble. Suggestions for improving Dabble.
Central Calendar With Word Count Breakdowns & Daily Totals Across All Projects
I would like a word count calendar where you can view all your individual word count progress across all projects plus a daily total for all projects, monthly totals ...
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Goals
Save the Cat Template
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Screenplay Templates
I would love to be able to write screenplays as well as novels in Dabble. I want all my writing one place.
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Add Prologue and Epilogue Feature
Would you like to have a Prologue and/or a Epilogue in your novel
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Organization
Reminder Notes
Something like the scene cards but perpetual notes per project. For example. While I'm doing my rewrite I want to be cognizant of the fact that my character speaks ...
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Story Notes
Customizable Color and Wallpaper Theme
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User Interface
Need to export to Mobi iand EPUB formats
This isn't an improvement. This option should be MANDATORY if you are going to charge people money for your software. I think you have a tremendous product here, but ...
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Reading level prediction
Tool that calculates the reading level of the text (like Hemingway app) - maybe even goes as deep as to highlight complicated passages (once again, like Hemingway)
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Integrations
Ability to remove 'Part 1' and 'Chapter 1' if these structures do not fit the manuscript.
Hard-coding in the 'Part 1' and 'Chapter 1' is restrictive and forces a structure on the user. When a new part or chapter is created it would be nice to allow the ...
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Characters in Scenes/Plots
tracing in which scene/plot characters appear in, or tracing which characters appear in which scene/plot
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Idea button for quick capture of ideas without losing your place
The idea button is to enable quick capture of an idea, always putting them in the same place - the ideas folder, so you don't have to think about clicking in the ...
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Compatibility with voice recognition software
Make the web-based version of the program compatible with voice recognition/dictating software, like Dragon NaturallySpeaking for example. This is the main, in fact ...
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Dark Mode Switch
Everything is so bright and white! :) Could a darkmode be added?
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User Interface
Plot graphs
I've been dying for something like this for a long time. There's one software package that does it, but only AFTER the draft is finished and imported. I'd like to be ...
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Plotting
Drag & drop text editing
Highlight and drag text for ease of editing (instead of cut & paste). Also, grabbing a space when highlighting a word, in both drag & drop and cut & paste.
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Editing
Increase the zoom size
There seems to be no way to zoom in or out onscreen. Therefore, I am forced to look at type I can barely see. Often, a comma is difficult to distinguish from a ...
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Support poetry manuscripts
Three parts, really:
Formatting options to include left, middle, and right alignment.
Formatting options to include bold and italic text.
The ability to include ...
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Add the Grammarly Add-in to the Desktop Version
Microsoft Office 365 lets you choose the option to add ProWritiingAid and Grammarly. I would like to see Grammarly added please, to the desktop version.
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Editing
Wordcount added to scene cards/chapter cards/part cards, in the plot grid and folder dropdown list.
There are several other wordcount requests, but I think mine is slightly different, so I've added it here:
It would be great if we could see on both the plot grid ...
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Goals
Synchronization with other storage
It’d be nice if Dabble could also link to something like iCloud or Dropbox or both. That way it’s an extra layer of security and being able to retrieve files from ...
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Integrations
General Notebook
I love that we can keep our projects separated in Dabble but sometimes I just want to write short stories if I'm struggling with writers block, or keep scraps of ...
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Add Epigraph page
Add a phrase, quotation, or poem on a separate page at the beginning of a book or chapter.
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Organization
App for mobile (iOS and Android)
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Word search
I see that I've spelled Momma and Mama throughout the manuscript. I'd love to be able to search and fix all of them to be consistent.
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Editing
Copy/Paste Plot Grids & Plot Lines
I like to keep my NaNoWriMo words as a separate project, but I'd like to be able to reference my plot grid from another project without having to switch projects in ...
Planned
Different Languages for Different Projects
I would love to have different settings in my different projects. As an examples, one of my projects is set in the UK and another is set in the US. Since I live in ...
Planned
Gifting subscriptions
I have many friends in my writing circles who could greatly benefit from Dabble, but do not currently have it in their budgets to pay for a subscription of their own. ...
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Billing/Admin/Subscriptions
Folders for Series
If we were able to make folders to put any projects we have for any series we were writing so we could find them easier. Also to help with organising the Home Screen.
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Checkbox(es) for scene/plot cards/boxes
I'd like to be able to mark when I'm completely done writing the contents of a scene/plot card, although I don't want it deleted or moved. A manual checkbox with the ...
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Time Spent Writing/Editing
I think a timer that calculates how long you've spent writing each day and then a timer that calculates how long you have spent on that specific project would be ...
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Goals
Read Time
I think it would be if there was an option that would calculate the words in your manuscript and give you an estimate of how many hours it would take the average ...
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More Fonts
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Novel Duplication
I did a search and couldn't find anything under Copy Novel, or Duplicate Novel, so I'd like to suggest this.
I make my own templates depending on what type of ...
Planned
Organization
Arrange projects in display screen
Would be a great feature if we could determine arrangement of projects manually, not default to most recent worked on. Drag and drop or something similar.
Under consideration
User Interface
Full access to/for ProWritingAid
So if you have a full PWA account you can use all the PWA features from within Dabble ...
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Editing
Ability to change background colour/contrast
Being able to change the background from a stark black-on-white to something like black-on-pale-blue/yellow would be much easier on people with scotopic sensitivites ...
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User Interface
Store encrypted documents in the cloud
The idea that there is no at-rest encryption is bothersome from a data privacy perspective. IMHO the Dabble client should encrypt everything it sends to the cloud ...
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Integrations
One time purchase option
Ability to choose between a subscription or a one time purchase
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I need to be able to use two different fonts
I need to use a different font for my character's split personality. Am absolutely gutted I can't do this in Dabble, it's a key feature for my book so I'm going to ...
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Editing
Auto capitalization of I
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Editing
Conlang Dictionary
Have a dictionary for constructed languages. Maybe it could act as a lite translator as well.
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Editing
A tagging option?
I've been using the Novelist app from Android for a while since switching from iPhone, and I have to say that I really enjoy how integrated everything is. I've ...
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Swap Plot Points
Dragging a plot note on the grid to another swaps them. This allows for easier rearranging as your outline of a story evolves.
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Plotting
Write in Markdown (no GUI)
I write in Markdown. I use **bold** and _italics_ by default and if I need a smaller heading I use ## Heading. It'd be nice if those things changed formatting as I ...
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Editing
Adding Table of Contents and Index
The ability to put a table of contents in the front of your book and an index in the back for easy chapter surfing and reference.
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Organization
Add links in Notes to other content in Dabble
Be able to link content within your story notes to other content within your story notes (Kind of like a wiki article that links to other pertinent wiki articles). ...
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Once we hit Dismiss it stays Dismissed
Whenever I am writing and something pops up that I don't want to change, I hit Dismiss. But after I write a bit more the same thing pops up and it won't go away. It ...
Export to vellum
Similar to what Scrivener just launched. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/export-to-vellum This would be awesome. As a test I did an export to word, import to ...
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Import/Export
Open document where you left off
Open the document you were last working on where you left off.
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