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v0.5.0
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The element bar and writing stats. For drafter.dev and the Linux app.

The element bar

A slim row of buttons across the top of the Source pane that writes Fountain for you, and teaches it as it goes. It's for anyone who hasn't learned Fountain's marks yet.

  • Scene, Action, Character, Dialogue, Parenthetical, Transition, and More (centered, lyric, dual dialogue, notes, boneyard, sections, synopses, page breaks, bold, italic, underline). Each button shows the mark it writes, and its tooltip explains the rule.
  • It writes plain Fountain: MARGARET, not @MARGARET; "kitchen" becomes INT. KITCHEN. It adds a forcing mark only when one is needed, and each click is one Undo.
  • "You're in: Dialogue" names the line you're on, and why.
  • A stage play gets Act #, Scene ##, and Stage direction. A Markdown document gets Heading, Bold, Italic, List, Quote, Link, and Code.
  • Ctrl+Alt+1 to 7 (Cmd+Option on a Mac) do what the buttons do. You can hide the bar in Settings once you know the marks.
  • A Fountain cheat sheet in Help (the bar's ?): every element, its mark, its rule, and an example, for screenplays and stage plays.

Writing stats

  • Words and time today in the status bar, such as +420 words today · 38 min today. Time counts only while you're writing, and pauses after two minutes without an edit.
  • A Stats window (Stats… in the Counts panel, or Show stats in the palette):
    • Today: words, pages, and time.
    • This script: pages, scenes, words, running time, a character table (scenes, speeches, and words for each character), interior/exterior and day/night, total writing time, and days written.
    • The last 30 days: a chart, your best day, your average, and your streak.
  • Everything stays on your device.

Download (Linux, x64)

  • Drafter-0.5.0-linux-amd64.deb for Ubuntu 24.04 and later, and other Debian-based systems: sudo apt install ./Drafter-0.5.0-linux-amd64.deb.
  • Drafter-x86_64.AppImage for other distributions. An earlier AppImage offers this update itself.

See the install guide and the changelog.

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