Deeper Project Structuring

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• 01 Dec, '17
  Violet

  I'm doing this for one project, but the project name takes on the name of the first book I've added, which is kind of annoying.

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• 21 Dec, '17
  Stephanie

  I'd love to be able to share story notes between projects, so that I can have different projects for different books in a series but keep the notes consistent.

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• 29 Dec, '17
  Kyia

  I agree that if I have multiple stories following a set of characters it’d be trying to cross-reference

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• 25 Jan, '18
  ChrisDK1984

  I've a short story collection project where each short story is a "chapter" (happy about the prologue option, to turn the numbering off!). Some stories fit together into a specific theme ... and, well, yes, more levels would be helpful :).

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• 10 Apr, '18
  Tori J.

  Specifically the ability to name a project after your series name, instead of first book name, would be fantastic. I get around it by adding a book to the top of the manuscript list, call that my project and delete its automatic chapter 1, but that's a little clunky. Still, at least my project then appears as "The <Whatever> Series" instead of by the first book's name.

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• 15 May, '18
  Heather

  This would be very useful. Especially for those of us who write multiple series in the same general universe. Being able to group things together would be very useful, especially if there was cross-referencing capability, though the latter is not necessary. (Frankly I use other locations for world building since the cross-referencing I prefer tends to make most programs curl up and cry in a corner.)

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• 01 Dec, '19
  Kandis

  I would love to be able to sort my manuscript into series lists/group

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• 11 May, '20
  Peta webb

  This would be great. Am planning a series of fantasy books, and to be able to keep notes, characters and timelines all in one place is precisely what i am looking for.

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• 14 Sep, '21
  CINDY JONES

  Yes this is needed! I would love to duplicate folders in one project and add them to other projects or tie them together.

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• 25 Jul, '22
  J. S. Elliot

  Yeah, this would work out nicely for my epics.

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• 03 Feb, '23
  Sheena Jolie

  I too have an extended universe with multiple books and series and I'd love this ability.

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• 22 Mar, '23
  Rachael

  I would love to be able to group projects in a series that would allow me to use the same notes across projects. Right now I'm just copying the notes into each new project, which is clunky and time-consuming.

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• 01 Jul, '23
  Michael

  Also, for organizing the multiple versions of your book - so I am not searching for them or having to archive them. Series folders so I have all the books in a series together. When you get a number of books on the go the homepage can be pretty daunting.

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• 24 Nov, '24
  Jay

  This is pretty much the one feature I would really really really like. Possibly have the option in settings, something like:
  1: Standard Structure
  Manuscript > Book > Part > Chapter > Scene (Current setup)
  
  Or
  2: Advanced structuring
  Basically endless nesting capabilities. Okay maybe not endless, but but say something like:
  Manuscript > Main Folder > Subfolder > Subfolder Subfolder... Etc
  
  Example: I'm working on a fiction project that's getting pretty complex. I love the easy search Dabble provides, and I love the word count features. (there's even more potential there, but as it is should hold up for like 10 years xD)
  What I'd like to do is have pretty much the current setup (aka Standard, see above), but with the ability to split, say, scenes, and so I have an actual scene document (for drafting) and one that's meta (ideas for the scene, notes about callbacks/setups for other scenes etc) and possibly a third document that's essentially a summary of the scene, but yeah.

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