Progress Mode
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Progress Mode isolates each subplot into its own radial pass, removing the combined outer ring. This mode focuses on Author time (your writing status) and Progress stages (revision stages), making it ideal for tracking workflow at a glance.
- Single Thread Focus: View one subplot at a time to analyze its specific arc and continuity.
- Act Structure: Like Narrative Mode, scenes are distributed across your configured act count (default 3). Each act spans an equal segment of the 360° circle.
- Cleaner View: Removes story beats to reduce visual noise while you focus on workflow.
Unlike Narrative Mode, this mode replaces subplot colors with your workflow status:
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Author Status:
- Todo: Solid light pink.
- Working: Pink, with an optional Hero Patterns plaid motif overlaid on top. The motif is customizable with the Pro Signature Tier — paste any pattern from heropatterns.com in Settings.
- Overdue: Red.
- Complete: Inherits the color of the scene Progress Stage.
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Progress Stage Colors:
- Once a scene is "Complete", it displays the color of its current stage (Zero Draft, Author's Draft, House Edit, Press Ready).
- These colors can be customized in Progress stage colors.
Together, status and progress stage answer two questions:
- Status: what is happening with this scene right now?
- Progress stage: which draft or editing stage has this scene reached?
Together they turn the radial view into a project-management dashboard, highlighting what needs to be written, what is overdue, and what is ready for the next stage of editing.
Zero Draft Mode is a guardrail against never-ending revision while you finish a first draft. When it is enabled, clicking a scene that has reached Progress Stage = Zero and Status = Complete opens a Pending Edits panel instead of the scene file, so you can jot down what to revise later without dropping back into the prose. Enable it in Settings, and capture revision ideas in the scene's Pending Edits field.
