Features

Most writing apps ask you to manage the app before you return to the work.

Vespers is built around a quieter idea: the software should serve the manuscript, not the other way around.

# Write in Sessions

Writing happens one sitting at a time.

Vespers starts with Focus because the first useful question is often simple: what are you working on now?

Set an intention, begin a session, and write. The session can belong to a scene, a compendium entry, a document, an outlining task, or a freeform note. Vespers records the work without turning the manuscript into a scoreboard.

# Keep Structure Close

Planning and drafting should stay near each other.

The Planner holds beats, chapters, and scenes. The Editor opens the prose. You can move from structure to draft without changing tools or rebuilding context.

Vespers supports detailed planning, but it does not require it. Start with a blank outline, choose a template, or reshape the project as the story changes.

# Keep Your Work Yours

Vespers stores project material as ordinary files in a folder you can find.

Scenes, notes, and outline data belong to the project. Session history and local app state stay in the app database on your machine.

That split is intentional: the manuscript stays portable, while live app data avoids the sync problems that can happen when cloud services touch a database file.

# Revise Without Losing the Trail

Revising is not a straight line.

Vespers gives you snapshots, comments, highlights, strikethrough, search, and progress views so you can see what changed and what still needs attention.

Keep the trail visible enough that you can make the next decision.

# Review Progress Without Letting It Lead

The Dashboard helps you see writing time, words added, prose patterns, open marks, and recent activity. Those signals are useful when they help you return to the work with a clearer sense of what matters next. 1