A manuscript needs two opposite things from its tool. Sometimes you must see the whole structure at once; sometimes you must see nothing but the current sentence. This is the largest release so far, and it is built around that tension.
To see the whole:
- Card Table view: your sections as draggable index cards, with synopses you edit in place.
- Outliner view: the same structure as a table, with inline editing, drag-and-drop, and keyboard navigation.
- Character Relationships: a grid for tracking the bidirectional emotional dynamics that hold a cast together.
To see only the work:
- Writing modes: Typewriter, Distraction-Free, and Composition, so the interface can recede as far as you need it to.
- Split panes: two sections side by side, with a draggable divider, for the constant cross-referencing that longer books demand.
There is also a new way to keep your cast connected to the page. Type @ in the editor and a filtered list of your characters appears; choose one, and that character is associated with the scene. The link you would otherwise have to remember to create now happens in the natural course of writing the sentence, and over a long book that difference compounds.
And a set of quieter conveniences: a Workspace of recently edited sections, per-section word targets with progress tracking, reading-time estimates, duplicate section, a larger avatar palette, a proper keyboard-shortcut cheatsheet, and custom project names in your recent list. Verkilo now remembers its window size and position between sessions, and when it saves a version identical to one it already holds, it recognizes the match and stores it once, so your history stays complete and your project file stays lean.
Structure and focus are not competing features. They are the same act of writing, seen from two distances. This release tries to make moving between them effortless.