Editor

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.

The Editor showing a scene open for writing, with the manuscript centered and the scene list beside it.

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

The Editor showing a scene with revision marks and the marks rail open.

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

The compendium holds project material that is not manuscript prose.

The Compendium showing entries for characters, places, things, backstory, and freewriting.

Use it for characters, places, research notes, world-building, or any other supporting material.

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

Search can find text across scenes, compendium entries, and documents.

Switch from Write to Manuscript inside the Editor tab.

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

The Editor manuscript view showing the assembled draft with chapters and scenes in order.

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