Planner

Use it to organize beats, chapters, and scenes, track scene purpose, and decide what needs work next.

The Planner outline showing beats, chapters, scenes, and scene-planning columns.

The Story Structure

  • Beats are the largest story units.
  • Beats contain Chapters.
  • Chapters contain Scenes.

You can rename, move, create, and delete structure as the project changes.

Plan with the Outline Grid

The Outline grid is the detailed planning view.

Use columns to capture the information that helps you make decisions: Purpose, Setting, Conflict, Stakes, Outcome, or your own custom fields.

Set Your Columns

The default columns should help you understand why a scene exists and what pressure it carries.

Vespers starting columns are:

  • Purpose
  • Setting
  • Conflict

Change the order, hide and show columns, or add your own.

Cards

Cards give the outline a two-dimensional view.

Planner cards showing scenes as movable story cards.

Review scenes as movable story pieces rather than rows in a grid.

Check Progress

Planner → Progress shows scene status, word counts, recent activity, sessions, and open marks.

Planner progress showing scene status, word counts, sessions, and open marks.

Planner → Progress is ideal for finding scenes needing attention. From there, open the scene or send it to Focus.

Send Work to Focus

Send a scene or outlining task to Focus when it should become today's intention.

Sent work appears in Focus as an intention.