v1.1.0

PlotWeave v1.1.0

Ninety changes since v1.0.0. The largest of them makes a story bible something
you can hand to someone who is still reading the book. PlotWeave also has a new
mark, and the library has grown to thirty-three books.

A new look

The app icon is a gateway drawn as a single ribbon: it rises into an arch, twists
at the waist, and flows down toward you as a road, with an ember in the opening.
A way in that becomes a journey. The name has not changed.

Reading mode

Turn it on in World settings and a world presents itself to a reader rather
than a writer. Characters, places, items, lore, factions and subplots stay
hidden until the story introduces them; your place in the book is the cursor,
and everything is read relative to it. The Library worlds all arrive with it
already on.

• The book opens where you left it, and the shelf shows how far into each
  one you have read. On a phone, a book you have started now comes before the
  writing tools you are not using.
• The chapter bar no longer prints the plot at you. A chapter you have not
  reached keeps its number and loses its title, and the scenes inside it are
  named by position rather than by what happens in them. Skipping two or more
  chapters ahead asks first; reading on into the next one never interrupts.
• Lore waits for the scene that earns it. Every one of the 488 lore pages
  across the Library now names the moment a reader could know it. Dracula at
  chapter 7 shows four pages where it used to show eleven.
• The relationship graph opens close enough to read, rather than fitting the
  whole cast at a size where the names are 7px.
• Showing the whole book asks first, since it undoes the thing reading mode
  is for, and offers to step the cursor instead.
• The writing screens, the corkboard, the manuscript and the author's own
  instruments are put away, and the app stops addressing a reader as the author.

Reading mode is a per-world setting, so it works on your own draft too — turn it
on before handing a world to a beta reader.

The Library

• Three more books, bringing it to thirty-three: Journey to the West,
  The Call of the Wild, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Journey to the West
  is the first shipped world to use a historical echo — two timelines sharing
  the same geography five hundred years apart, with the older era's places ringed
  on the map of the newer one.
• Better artwork throughout. The Kingkiller maps are original atlas
  illustrations rather than one shared photograph, Dracula has illustrated
  characters and items, and factions can carry a cover image.
• Save a world's pictures to this device. A picture in PlotWeave is either a
  file kept in your browser or a link to one on the web, and a downloaded book
  whose art is still links draws nothing on a train. World settings →
  Pictures says how many are links and offers to copy them in. Not every site
  allows it; the ones that refuse are named, and those stay as links.
• One Download button per card, quoting the whole download. The four books
  that carry their pictures say Embedded images and bring them with the
  book; the rest say Pictures load from the web.
• Where a book's chapter names were written for the example rather than by its
  author — Jane Eyre and The Odyssey — the world's own Lore now says so.

Search

• Whole words, so Bel stops matching Bellhouse and tin stops matching
  casting. The setting is remembered.
• Your prose is searched, not just your records, with a snippet of the line
  that matched rather than the start of the scene.
• Chapters by number — typing 12 or chapter 12 finds it.

Writing, state and continuity

• Take back what you recorded. A snapshot written at the wrong scene can be
  withdrawn, rather than edited into something equally wrong.
• Put an item down without leaving it in two places, and keep the record of
  who held it before it changed hands.
• An edit to an earlier scene says where it stops, and offers to carry it
  forward rather than leaving you to guess whether it did.
• Record a character's state from the scene you are writing, not from their
  page — and every write says which scene it lands on.
• The continuity checker separates craft observations from contradictions,
  stops arguing with the author about a cast member it cannot see, and carries a
  character's state forward when it moves them.
• Named in the prose is answered with a mention rather than a cast entry.

Structure and plotting

• Say where a subplot lands, and say that a faction departure is final.
• A thread's silence is measured against its own rhythm rather than a fixed
  number of scenes, and the long-POV-run warning only fires on a run the book
  itself would call unusual.
• A scene can leave its chapter; a chapter's synopsis can be written after the
  chapter exists; the Arc grid holds its size at book scale.

Maps

• A blank map, so a writer with no picture can still place a scene.

Under the hood

Every lore page in every shipped world now names the scene that reveals it, so a
reader is not told the rules of a world before the story tells them. The two
copies of each world — the importable one and the downloadable one — are held in
step by a test rather than by memory. And the app is a great deal lighter: the
icon set alone went from four megabytes to under forty kilobytes, with another
eight megabytes of unused artwork removed.

The desktop download has stayed the size it was, though the library has
grown by half again. The three new books brought a gigabyte of illustrations
with them, and the desktop app was carrying every one of them inside the
installer — for 33 books a reader might open one of. It now loads that artwork
from the web, as the browser version has always effectively done, and keeps only
the catalogue and the books themselves. World settings → Pictures still
copies a book's pictures onto your machine when you want them offline.

Smaller things

Editing panels' controls have names; long pickers can be typed into and short
ones are in order; the @-mention list opens where you are looking; Enter
completes a name but no longer invents a record; every select says what it is
showing; the first-run guide survives a reload; and the world list says when each
world was last worked in.

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Download

Platform	File
Windows	PlotWeave-*-Setup.exe
macOS	PlotWeave-*.zip
Linux	plotweave_*.deb

Install

• Windows: Run the .exe installer
• macOS: Unzip and drag PlotWeave to your Applications folder. On first run, right-click → Open if macOS warns about the developer.
• Linux: Install the .deb with sudo dpkg -i plotweave_*.deb

All data is stored locally on your machine. No account or internet connection required.

v1.0.0

PlotWeave v1.0.0

Download

Platform	File
Windows	PlotWeave-*-Setup.exe
macOS	PlotWeave-*.zip
Linux	plotweave_*.deb

Install

• Windows: Run the .exe installer
• macOS: Unzip and drag PlotWeave to your Applications folder. On first run, right-click → Open if macOS warns about the developer.
• Linux: Install the .deb with sudo dpkg -i plotweave_*.deb

All data is stored locally on your machine. No account or internet connection required.

v0.1.16

PlotWeave v0.1.16

Download

Platform	File
Windows	PlotWeave-*-Setup.exe
macOS	PlotWeave-*.zip
Linux	plotweave_*.deb

Install

• Windows: Run the .exe installer
• macOS: Unzip and drag PlotWeave to your Applications folder. On first run, right-click → Open if macOS warns about the developer.
• Linux: Install the .deb with sudo dpkg -i plotweave_*.deb

All data is stored locally on your machine. No account or internet connection required.

v0.1.15

PlotWeave v0.1.15

Download

Platform	File
Windows	PlotWeave-*-Setup.exe
macOS	PlotWeave-*.zip
Linux	plotweave_*.deb

Install

• Windows: Run the .exe installer
• macOS: Unzip and drag PlotWeave to your Applications folder. On first run, right-click → Open if macOS warns about the developer.
• Linux: Install the .deb with sudo dpkg -i plotweave_*.deb

All data is stored locally on your machine. No account or internet connection required.