Glossary

The words used in this documentation are lined up with the names on the app’s screens. When a word is unclear, look it up here.

What a project holds

Term	Meaning
Project	The outermost container that a whole manuscript goes into. It is what other tools call a project.
Document	The file the manuscript goes into. One document usually holds one scene or one chapter.
Folder	A container that groups files. It can hold documents, sheets, plotboards, and canvases.
Sheet	The file where you write down setting material such as characters, places, and events. It keeps the details split into separate properties.
Plotboard	The board where you lay the structure of the story out as cards.
Canvas	An infinite board where you put cards anywhere and join them with lines. It holds thoughts before they are sorted out.
File	The blanket word for the five above. Everything that shows as one row in the sidebar tree is a file.

Term	Meaning
Plot card	One vertical column. It takes a large chunk such as an act, a part, or a chapter.
Part card	The small card that stacks inside a plot card. It corresponds to one scene or one beat.

A part card can be linked to a document. Once linked, you jump straight from the card to the manuscript.

Term	Where it is
Sidebar	The vertical area on the left. The project name, search, the file tree, trash, and settings sit there from top to bottom.
File tree	The file list in the middle of the sidebar. You collapse it, expand it, and drag things around in it.
Editor	The middle area where you write the manuscript.
Toolbar	The formatting row above the editor. Font, size, alignment, and the character count are here.
Document header	The row at the very top of the editor. The file path and the icons on the right sit there.
Side pane	The secondary area that opens from the right. Notes, comments, spell check, and AI Review come up here.
Agent panel	The area where you talk with the AI. It attaches to the right.
Command palette	The search-and-command window you open with `Cmd/Ctrl + K`.
Tab	The list of open files that stacks above the editor.
Split view	Splitting one pane left/right or top/bottom to see two files side by side.

Term	Meaning
Mention	Typing `@` in the body to pull in another file. It becomes a link, and backlinks build up.
Backlink	The list of other files that point to this file.
Slash command	The insert menu you open by typing `/` in the body.
Label	A colored marker attached to a file. It is for sorting.
Status	How far along a file is. It marks stages such as Draft, Revised Draft, and Final Draft.
Version	A snapshot of a document at one point in time. Some build up on their own; you can also leave one yourself with `Cmd/Ctrl + S`.
Trash	Where a deleted file stays for 31 days.

Term	Meaning
Agent	The AI that reads and writes files inside a project. You direct it by talking to it.
Thread	One bundle of conversation with the agent. You can keep several and move between them.
Scope	The unit that agent instructions apply to. You can set them across the whole workspace, or on one project only.
Context	Files attached to this conversation for reference. It does not narrow the range the agent can see; it puts them on top as things to look at first in this conversation.
Memory	Notes the agent holds on to about a project over the long term.
Skill	A bundle of instructions written up in advance for work you ask for often.
MCP	The standard that lets the agent attach and use outside tools.
AI Review	A critique of a finished manuscript. It is a separate feature from the agent.

How to bring it over is in Moving over from Scrivener.