#News

Version v0.4.0 marks the final feature release for Phase 1 with the implementation of FEAT-0226 “Unarchive scene”. Archived scenes can now be displayed as cards on a dashboard and restored back to their original chapter.

A small, feature related, release today that implements FEAT-0303 Lossless navigation.

Previously, if you were writing a scene and clicked on the in-application navigation (breadcrumbs) you got a very ugly browser dialogue asking you to confirm the navigation. This feature introduces a more user friendly confirmation dialogue if you try to leave the writing editor with unsaved changes.

Today I’m delighted to announce the release of Novel-It v0.2.0.

This release introduces novel parts as a structural layer within the novel. Now you can create novels with multiple parts, each with multiple chapters and scenes. Parts are optional, not every novel has parts, and you can enable or disable them for each novel on the novel details page.

If you start a novel with parts, and then decide you don’t want them later, you can simply disable them. In this case any exisitng chapters/scenes will be relocated to the novel so you don’t loose anything. Conversely, if you start a novel without parts and enable them later you can assign the existing chapters to the parts when you create or edit them.

Novel-It is the product of my search for an open-source solution for writing and planning novels. When I couldn’t find one that fit my needs, I decided to create it myself. It’s designed to be simple, flexible, and easy to use. I hope it helps other writers in their creative process.

Novel-It is now publicly available on GitHub. The project is in active pre-v1.0 development and licensed under AGPL-3.0.