v0.21.0

Seeing the script: Scaffold, the Stats tab, and who is in every scene.

• Scaffold, a new tab, shows who is in the scene you're writing, and follows your cursor quietly as you move. Every name is a link:

  • a page for each character: the scenes they're in, their lines, their screen time, and their share of the dialogue;
  • a page for each place: the scenes set there, inside and out;
  • Cast and Places, the whole list of each, with a filter.

  Back (or Alt+Left) retraces your steps. Open it from the palette ("cast", "who is in this scene"), the View menu, or "Scaffold for this scene" in the Outline, Cards, the Structure strip, and the grid.

• Stats is a tab now, beside the script instead of in a window: today, this script with its running time, the last 30 days, and a Characters table with each one's screen time, share of the dialogue, and who they're most often with.

• Character by scene: the whole script as a grid of who is in which scene, with each character's long absences marked and listed. It works by keyboard, and has a plain list view if you prefer one.

• Names that are also words (Will, Hope, even Tom) count only in capitals in the action, so "she will go" isn't Will. A voice-over cue counts as being in the scene.

Fixes

• Clearing a synopsis inside a speech no longer pulls a lyric below it into the speech.

Download

Windows

• Drafter-0.21.0-windows-x64-setup.exe for most PCs (Intel or AMD).
• Drafter-0.21.0-windows-arm64-setup.exe for Windows on Arm.

Linux (x64)

• Drafter-0.21.0-linux-amd64.deb for Ubuntu 24.04 and later: sudo apt install ./Drafter-0.21.0-linux-amd64.deb.
• Drafter-x86_64.AppImage for other distributions.

An installed Drafter offers this update itself, or use Help → Check for updates…. See the Windows guide, the Linux guide, and the changelog.