Our customers made these suggestions for improving Dabble. Suggestions for improving Dabble.
Restart Chapter numbering in different Parts
It would be great if there was a way to toggle Chapter numbers between Parts. Currently if Part 1 ends with Chapter 10, Part 2 begins with Chapter 11. I'd love the ...
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Organization
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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Tag Characters or World elements in scenes
Have the ability to ‘tag’ characters or world building elements in scenes and have the relevant information box appear on the right-hand-side to easily reference and ...
Read only mode
Lock text (on mobile especially) to prevent clicking into keyboard while scrolling back to reread
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User Interface
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 ...
An overall word count- More word count options
At the minute there's only a word count per chapter. As soon as you create a new chapter then the word count starts back to 0. It would be better to be able to change ...
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Viewing the plot grid as an outline
I know some people would like to be able to see the plot grid as more of an outline than a grid so being able to switch between those would be a plus
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Add a Editing Feature where I can put it in edit mode
As a user, I want the ability to put the scene in edit mode and see my words 'before' and 'after.'
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Editing
Multiple window panes
I want to be able to view notes in one pane while writing in the other pane, just two text editors side-by-side.
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Project Settings: Add a Straight Quotes/Smart (Curly) Quotes Toggle
When I'm typing in Dabble, it automatically uses smart/curly quotes. However, I prefer to use straight quotes and use them elsewhere, so when I paste in from ...
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Compare Stats by Scene/Chapter
It would be nice to see how many words are in each scene or chapter and we can have word goals for that.
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Goals
Text justified
I'm a journalist used to using justified text ... I always send it to my newspaper and this thing has become a habit. Using the same typeface as the printer, I can ...
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Alpha and beta reader feedback capabilities
I would love it if my alpha readers were able to comment on my document without having to have an account. I send them every day the weblink to read, but they have to ...
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Make text searchable
You should be able to search your own document (like in Word) for a keyword you remember using so that you can find your place etc.
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I would like to have special characters
I would like to be able to have a selection of special characters on letters for words from different languages, like ', ~ , etc but actually attached to the letters. ...
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Editing
Sepia Theme
A sepia theme would be a nice third option. The light theme can be harsh when I spend hours working, and I find it difficult to work in the dark theme due to vision ...
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Scene cards should cascade like plot-lines
The Scene cards are the only ones that don't have a card-to-card view with descriptions and not just titles flowing from one to the next.
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Plotting
Total page count
Is there a way, or could there be, for me to get a page count or word count for where I am in the manuscript? For instance if I'm on page 76, or 37,000 words in.
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Goals
AS NEEDED split screen for editing
I would really love to have the ability to split the screen when necessary and look at two version of my text: the original and the changes I'm trying to make. This ...
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Update Information
Every time that Dabble receives an update, the user would like the option to click and see what's new. After all, they are paying monthly and look forward to learning ...
Resize plot grid view
Being able to view more expansive plot grids as a whole with the option of resizing just the plot grid itself.
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Plotting
App
An App would be very excellent, helpful on the go, and inspiring how easy it would be to add to your story.
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Page Color
The ability to choose a color for the background of the page while writing like on Word (Page Layout)
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User Interface
The ability to prewrite scenes and add them to the manuscript at will.
I think it would be useful to have a side bar where you can pre write scenes that you have a lot of inspiration for and then add them into your story later.
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Editing
Story Board
for animation or screen writing Basic Who ? Where? Action? Dialogue?
maybe ability to upload a picture into each frame
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Story Notes
More Statistics
I'd love to be able to view my writing statistics more in-depth. It would be awesome to see word-count graphs for hours (when am I at my most productive?), months, ...
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Goals
Ability to add a lock/password on individual projects within the app
Along with writing projects I also journal in dabble. I also keep it logged in on my computers. I would love the ability to add that extra security to certain ...
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More Ribbons/Colors
I love your ribbon feature, it is much easier than using colored sticky notes or pens to try and link characters and places together. I would like to see more color ...
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Move Sticky Notes to the space beyond the margin
There is a huge amount of white space on either side of the writable area, and I would like to be able to put my sticky notes there so they do not have to be covering ...
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Character and Place Cards
I would love to be able to put my characters and information on different places in my world on notecards similar to the cards used in the storyboard feature. Then ...
Ability to Import PDF files into notes
Some of my sources are only in PDF form and it would be really cool if I could just import them in without having to type the entire document
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Import/Export
bookmarks
The ability to place a bookmark in the area of the novel that is being reviewed / edited, so you can get right back to that specific location with a single click. ...
"Always Correct To" for spell check
I tend to misspell simple words like "the" or "and" simply because I type really fast. I'd love to have a sort of auto correct feature where we could select if we ...
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Graphs of past word count
A more detailed graph showing a trend of words written over time, to see when you are most productive (eg: on the weekends, in November, etc), and to see how many ...
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Plotting Cards - Word Count goal per scene on scene card
Can you add the goal (and word count) to the card? (Also percentage, see my prior request. (Sorry, can't get back into that request, and I forgot to include the goal ...
Script Format Option
Dabble is set up as a tool for writers--specifically novel writers--but what if Dabble had the option to choose between writing a novel or a script. A functioning ...
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Daily word count displayed without having to set a project goal
I would really like a way to have the "written today" count displayed for a project without having to set an overall word count goal for that project. A lot of my ...
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Goals
Option to turn off Passive Verb Notice
It would be fantastic if there were an option to take out the flag in the editor about marking "passive verbs."
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Editing
Ability to highlight and drag text to move it (like in Word)
It would be smashing to be able to highlight and drag text, rather than using cut and paste (and less risk of forgetting and losing aforementioned cut text)
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Editing
replace lowercase i with I
I type pretty fast and sometimes I don't always hit the shift key at the right time, so I end up with a lot of i, i'm and i've in my manuscript. Any chance of making ...
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Editing
More detail on dashboard per project
On the dashboard grid of projects show the statistics for each project. Number of characters, scenes, chapters, and words
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Abilty to reset Written Today count
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Goals
Ready for Print
I would love it to align with Vellum where page numbers, margins, headers, font, line spacing, etc is automatically integrated into the program. This way when your ...
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Dragging and dropping on the plot line with my phone
Right now you cant move the plot points or scenes around when using dabble mobile. This is a huge feature with dabble and I need it accessible on my mobile device.
Highlight Locater or Search Highlight Color
I would like to not only see a "highlight" ability, in multiple color options, but a "search for color" also. Example: Character A's dialogue may need improving ...
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Editing
Character Relationship Map
Those maps that map out how different characters know each other and their relationships with each other. Like if two characters are best friends or know each other ...
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Plotting
More inspirational quotes
I have seen the same quotes quite a few times. Need more of them so i don't have as much replication.
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User Interface