DABBLE'S LIVE AND UPCOMING FEATURES
Dabble is your tool
There’s so much we want to do for you. We’re always working on upcoming features that will help Dabble be the best writing software out there… so you can craft amazing stories for your readers.
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Here's what's live:
Just released features:
Here's what we just released!
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</> Book Covers
</> Images in Manuscript
</> Chapter Heading Images
</> Word Export Enhancements
</> Share to Web!
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</> Thesaurus Tools
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You've asked for
Some of these may come soon. Others will be a long time in coming. Some may never happen. All of them we wish we could build tomorrow. Just know we are dedicated to keeping Dabble simple and we’re committed to staying that way as we add new features.
• Easier file/folder creation
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Better plot management
• Better on-boarding helpers and documentation
• Copy-paste files and folders (and plot cards) from one place/project to another
• Undo everywhere, plot, navigation (delete or drag-drop), etc.
• Ultra-focus mode, like ilys
• Allow quotes, etc. in a Parts page
• Character profile
• Character interview
• Character cast management
• Translate interface into other languages
• Add story sections (e.g. Act I, II, and III)
• Easily change between tracking scenes and not
• Multi-select cards and other productivity improvements
• View project at a given point in time (like Apple’s Time Machine)
• Restore a deleted file
• Restore a version of a file (opt as a new file)
• From MS Word
• From Google Docs
• From Scrivener
• Copy-paste files and folders between Scrivener and Dabble
• Provide formatting options
• eBook formats
• Print
• Auto-backup to Google docs
• PDF
• Wattpad submission
• Kindle store (and other self-publishing) submission
• Text markup (mark to delete, fix, etc)
• Define the relationship between 2 characters
• Link the Location of a scene
• Getting beta readers feedback
• Writer-editor workflow, let editor make changes and comments, writer chooses which to keep
• Show information about when you write most
• Show max written words in a day
• Allow word-count contests with friends
• Hover cards with info on characters, items, and locations in text
• Click on hover card to go to character, item, location page
• Intelligent character renaming (including nicknames)
• Dialog edit pass per-character, hone in on one character voice at a time
• Intelligently show which scenes a character (or other thing) appears in
• Writing prompts and other exercises
• Write scenes you don’t have a story for
• Add writing friends
• Have writing contests with friends
• Post word count with friends
• See friends’ progress