Returning is cheap
The central thread states what the piece argues and the next writing move states where to resume. Two sentences you wrote yourself replace the twenty minutes usually spent rereading to remember your own plan.
Long-form writing projects
Long-form writing projects that give every essay, report, or book one home for its notes, sources, documents, versions, and next writing move.
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ROUGH NOTES → STRUCTURE → LONG FORM
What this is
A project is the container for one piece of writing and everything it needs. Documents, rough notes, imported sources, versions, collaborators and a full event history all live under a single title, and every one of them is reachable from the same sidebar while you write.
Long pieces are lost in the gaps between tools more often than they are abandoned for want of ideas. The research is in one folder, the outline in a second app, the chapter in a third, and returning after a week means reassembling all of it first.
How it works
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Start the project
Name it from the workspace and it opens with a first manuscript document and a first rough note already waiting, so there is no empty screen to negotiate. Everything you add later belongs to that project.
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Add documents with a shape
New documents can start blank or from a structure: essay, chapter, article pitch or research memo. Each template lays in section headings that appear in the outline immediately, turning the first session into filling gaps rather than inventing a skeleton.
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State the argument
The Structure panel holds three things: the central thread this project is prepared to defend, the next writing move, and a status of notes, outlining, drafting, revising, review or complete. All three save as you edit them.
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Move between the parts
The sidebar lists every document, the current outline of the open one, and tabs for rough notes, sources, structure, version history, collaboration and project history, with live counts on the notes and sources tabs, so nothing is more than a click away.
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Read the record
Project history merges up to a hundred recent events into one feed: documents created, renamed and exported, versions saved and restored, notes and sources added or removed, collaborators invited, comments raised and resolved, and every AI operation run.
What it changes about the work
Progress you can see
The workspace dashboard shows a fourteen-day activity graph, your current writing streak and the words added this week, counted from what you actually wrote in the editor rather than from a self-report.
Deletion means deletion
Only the owner can delete a project. Doing so removes its documents, notes, versions, comments, memberships and sources, and clears the stored files behind them from private storage rather than leaving orphans.
What you get on each plan
- Free
- Three projects, each with as many documents and versions as the work needs, plus 100 MB of source storage. Source files untouched for 30 days expire; manuscripts and rough notes are never affected.
- Pro
- Projects stop being counted, so a book, a newsletter and three commissioned essays can each hold their own workspace. The storage cap and the 30-day expiry on inactive sources are both lifted.
Long-form writing projects questions
How many documents fit in a project?
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There is no cap on them. A book can keep every chapter as its own document under one project, with the sidebar listing them all and the outline following whichever document happens to be open.
What happens at the third project?
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Creating a fourth is refused with a message pointing you at Pro, while the three you have keep working exactly as before. Deleting a project you have already finished frees a slot again straight away.
Does the status change anything?
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No. The six states are a signal for you and your collaborators about where the work stands. Nothing is locked, hidden or rescheduled when you move a project from drafting to revising in the Structure panel.
Can ownership be handed over?
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Ownership stays with the person who created the project. You can add someone as an editor with full write access to documents, notes and sources, but deletion and the sharing controls remain with the owner.
The operating principleYour notes should grow
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Your notes should grow
into finished writing.
Free to start — no card required
Give your rough notes
somewhere to go.
Projects, notes, versioned drafts, imported sources, and careful AI assistance in one private workspace.