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This is so very close to being a really awesome tool for authors writing novels.
The UX is already awesome and I was wondering if people here are open to the idea of adding some metadata options that authors would appreciate.
Consider the fact that writing a book is very similar to programming an app. You don't write it in one go, you end up refactoring and stuff. Where your programmers IDE is really good in things like "where is this method called", very similar it is needed for a novel writer to find all places where a certain character is mentioned. The usecase is that the author wants to check all places where the character is interacted with. Notice that a text-search won't do, at best it may help build such metadata but the same character is not always going to be referred to by the same string.
So, to the ghostwriter people, what about the idea of allowing a paragraph to have a character-name tagged to it, which then becomes part of a list of characters for the current book. A new sidebar with the character-list would then be useful to find all mentions and scroll to them.
Thanks for the ghostwriter as it already is, its awesome and I'll be using it already. Would like to see what people think about extending into the novel-writers direction.
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This is so very close to being a really awesome tool for authors writing novels.
The UX is already awesome and I was wondering if people here are open to the idea of adding some metadata options that authors would appreciate.
Consider the fact that writing a book is very similar to programming an app. You don't write it in one go, you end up refactoring and stuff. Where your programmers IDE is really good in things like "where is this method called", very similar it is needed for a novel writer to find all places where a certain character is mentioned. The usecase is that the author wants to check all places where the character is interacted with. Notice that a text-search won't do, at best it may help build such metadata but the same character is not always going to be referred to by the same string.
So, to the ghostwriter people, what about the idea of allowing a paragraph to have a character-name tagged to it, which then becomes part of a list of characters for the current book. A new sidebar with the character-list would then be useful to find all mentions and scroll to them.
Thanks for the ghostwriter as it already is, its awesome and I'll be using it already. Would like to see what people think about extending into the novel-writers direction.
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