Our customers made these suggestions for improving Dabble. Suggestions for improving Dabble.
More Formatting Options
I would like to have more formatting options to center text and have more control over the output of my manuscript.
Under consideration
Editing
Undo/redo button
An undo and redo button to return mistakenly deleted work or fix accidents
Planned
Editing
Version Control
I'm a developer. I love git. I can't help it. The ability to track changes on a scene by scene or page by page level and looking back to see the exact changes is ...
Under consideration
Editing
Different Writing Formats - Short Story, Theatrical Play, Screenplay
I'd like to write my short stories in Dabble. Eventually, I'd love to switch my screenplays/plays from Final Draft to Dabble as well.
Track Changes!
It would be amazing to see our edits and revisions. I have always loved this feature cause you can see what you've added over the course of a session.
Also it is ...
Planned
Editing
typewriter sounds
the typewriter sounds (like those found in calmlywriter.com/online) really help me focus and get into a rhythm and the absence of them in dabble has made me less ...
Under consideration
Editing
Auto-Capitalization at the Beginning of Sentences
It would be wonderful to have auto capitalization at the beginning of each sentence. It makes it much easier to just write and not worry about editing.
Under consideration
Editing
Mark Scenes as Draft or Complete
When working on a project, I would like a way to quickly visually identify which scenes have been finished and which scenes are still in progress. Ideally, they would ...
Font Colors
I would like to change text colors as a way to label sections of text for coming back to later to change.
Under consideration
Editing
Page Numbers
Page numbers, if not in the manuscript itself, down beside the word count.
Linking within Dabble
Awesome to link to sections within your project so you know where you're referencing/where to follow up.
Book Layout View
I'd like to see and edit my manuscript as it would look in a physical book to get an idea of how many pages I'm at.
Auto-correct like in Word
Should capitalize the first letter of a sentence and auto-correct spelling mistakes like cant to can't.
Under consideration
Editing
Non-Fiction Writing Features
Features to benefit a variety of genres:
1. Citations (Footnotes, endnotes)
2. Markup ability within the Manuscript editor (there is already Markup ability in the ...
Under consideration
Editing
Voice typing
I would like the option to use talk to text. With carpal tunnel and arthritis flare ups, it can be really challenging to type for long periods. A voice typing ...
Footnote / Endnote Creation
After highlighting text, the context menu could also contain a FN button alongside the Bold and Quote buttons. In export, Dabble could allow the user to choose ...
Under consideration
Editing
Screenwriting
I know that Dabble is a novel app, and this might be too much for what is supposed to be a nice simple novel app. But I think it'd be cool to be able to choose a ...
Under consideration
Editing
Dialogue Focus
A feature allowing the writer to focus on the dialogue of their work.
All the text surrounding the character’s speech could fade to gray allowing ...
Sharing Option
You could share your writing pieces with your friends by typing in their email. If someone shared something with you, you wouldn't be able to copy or paste it. You ...
Under consideration
Editing
Ability to dismiss grammar warnings so that they permanently save as dismissed.
Right now, when a user dismisses a grammar warning, it reappears whenever the sentence is edited. It would be nice to be able to save the original dismissal so that ...
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Editing
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.
Under consideration
Editing
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.
Under consideration
Editing
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.
Under consideration
Editing
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
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 ...
Under consideration
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.
Under consideration
Editing
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 ...
Under consideration
Editing
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 ...
Three very "connected" suggestions related to editing and revising manuscripts
From what I can see right now dabble is only really excellent for planning your manuscript and writing your very first 'rough draft.'
In order to be able to truly ...
Under consideration
Editing
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.'
Under consideration
Editing
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.
Under consideration
Editing
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 ...
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."
Under consideration
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
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. ...
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 ...
Under consideration
Editing
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
Search and sort
I have many small stories, that I am moving to Dabble because of several features, mainly the plot grids, and would love to be able to search through my projects by a ...
Under consideration
Editing
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. ...
Under consideration
Editing
A "continue where you left off" feature.
Like continue from the last word you wrote, it would help a lot with editing and even general writing.
Under consideration
Editing
Word Variety Suggestion
Similar to a thesaurus feature, but one of the things I struggle with, is using the same words over and over sometimes. Perhaps a feature like spelling or grammatical ...
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Editing
Arrow keys to scroll
Request from customer: "I can't scroll with my arrow keys. The side scroll bar is very skinny and it is difficult to control the speed of a scroll. I know skinny is ...
Word/sentence Search
Sometimes I change things. A character's name and I need to find it easily and change it manually for every time its types. Or I need to find this one particular ...
Under consideration
Editing
Correct all, Instead of one at a time
I wish there was a correct all button to push instead of having to do the same correction separately. For example. I pretty much trust Dabble when it comes to adding ...
Search count
When using the Search feature, show a counter that tells me the number of times a word appears in the manuscript. I find this useful when doing rewrites to make sure ...
Under consideration
Editing