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The Corkboard

Reordering scenes as cards

The Corkboard presents each scene in a chapter as a card showing its title and synopsis. Dragging a card reorders the scene in the manuscript itself, because the Corkboard, the Binder and the Outliner are three views of one structure rather than three copies of it.

The Corkboard displays the scenes of a chapter, or the chapters of a book, as cards in reading order. It is a view onto the same document tree the Binder and the Outliner read, so a change made here is a change to the manuscript and requires no separate step to apply.

What a card shows

Each card shows the title of the scene and its synopsis. A chapter is therefore readable in summary without opening any document within it, and the relative length of adjacent scenes is visible from their word counts rather than inferred by scrolling.

Reordering

Drag a card to a new position. The scene moves in the manuscript at the same moment, and the Binder and Outliner reflect the new order immediately. No copy of the structure is maintained, so there is nothing to reconcile afterward and no state in which the board and the manuscript disagree.

Scope

The Corkboard operates on order and on the metadata shown on the cards. Prose is edited in the Editor rather than here. A card with no synopsis displays its title alone, so writing synopses is what makes the board useful as a reading surface.