Editor

Editor is where you write and revise the project.

Write and revise scenes, maintain compendium entries, search across the project, and review the assembled manuscript.

# Write Scenes

Open a scene from the Editor sidebar.

You can also open scenes from Planner, project search, or Quick Open with ⌘P.

Start typing. Vespers saves changes automatically.

Use the toolbar for common formatting and editorial marks. Keyboard shortcuts are available for these actions as well.

# Editorial Marks

Editorial marks are comments, highlights, and strikethrough left during review. Selecting text brings up the toolbar.

Vespers keeps track of marks in Editor and in Planner → Progress.

# Compendium

The compendium holds project material that is not manuscript prose.

Use it for characters, places, research notes, world-building, or any other supporting material. Compendium entries live beside the manuscript, but they do not become part of the exported manuscript unless you move that material into scenes.

# Search in the Project

Open project search from the Editor sidebar or the keyboard shortcut.

Search can find text across scenes, compendium entries, and documents. When you open a result, Vespers takes you to the matching surface and highlights the match.

# Manuscript

Switch from Write to Manuscript inside the Editor tab.

Manuscript shows the assembled draft with chapters and scenes in order.

# Distraction Free Mode

Distraction Free mode hides the sidebars and extra controls so you can write with fewer distractions.