The Editor

The editor is where the work happens, and it is built for real drafting, not note-taking. It changes shape for the kind of writing in front of you, saves on its own, and keeps a full history, so a draft is never one keystroke from gone.

Write a poem and you get stanzas and line breaks; write a screenplay and you get scene headings and dialogue; write fiction, an essay, or an article and you get the formatting and the prose metrics calibrated for that form. A formatting bar sits above the page the whole time you write, carrying headings, alignment (including justify), lists, tables, a highlighter, superscript and subscript, links, drop caps, and footnotes. The page itself stays a clean, single column you can lose yourself in. It is free for every writer, and it is built to hold a novel rather than a chapter. We do not promise that, we measure it: the editor is tested against a 200,000 word manuscript, 5,000 paragraphs kept in a single piece, and a keystroke typed into the middle of it costs about 2 milliseconds of work, with no dropped frames. A short story costs about 0.7. So a book fifty times longer asks about three times as much per key, and both are a small fraction of a single frame. You never have to chop a book into little files to keep the app happy.