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Notebooks, Goals and Personalise: Threadbound's smaller modules

By the Threadbound team · October 2026

Notebooks

Notebooks is for everything that isn't the story itself: research, a list of names, ideas you aren't ready to place. It adds a Notebooks tab with two levels. A section is a note, and a notebook is an optional folder for grouping sections, such as "Worldbuilding" holding "Magic system".

It uses the same editor as Manuscript: bold, italic and underline, comments, snapshots, focus mode, drag-and-drop ordering, a trash for deleted sections, and export to Markdown or PDF. It has no word counts or plot-event links, since it's meant for notes rather than drafting. "New window" opens your notebooks beside the Timeline or your manuscript.

Notebooks are included in your normal backup with their comments, the same as Manuscript. Snapshots are saved when you export a backup from Settings, and left out of Google Drive backups.

Goals

Goals adds a tab that answers "how am I getting on?" It has three parts.

Book completion

Two bars: Planned, from the status of your plot events, and Written, from your manuscript. Set a target book length and the written bar measures words against it, otherwise it uses how many scenes are done. Writing progress needs Manuscript to be installed.

Goals

Create a goal of one of three types: write a number of words in a period (with start and end dates), reach a total word count (with an optional deadline), or finish a number of chapters. There is a one-click November challenge preset for 50,000 words in 30 days. Finished goals fold away into their own list. Goal dates are real calendar days, not your story's calendar.

Daily log and streaks

Goals watches your manuscript as you write and records how many words you wrote each day. You can set a daily word target too. Only words you actually write count: restoring a backup or syncing from another device doesn't get counted as writing.

Goals only reads your plot and manuscript, never changing them. Goals, your settings and your log are included in backups.

Personalise

Personalise adds extra appearance options to Settings, Appearance:

• Colour themes: pastel palettes. Pastel themes are light, and choosing Dark or Light under Appearance switches back to the plain theme.
• Fonts: separate choices for headings, body text, and the writing font used in Manuscript and Notebooks.
• Soft shapes: rounder corners and gentler shadows throughout.
• Reset to defaults if you change your mind.

It also lets you attach inspiration links, such as a Pinterest board or a playlist, to threads and events. Your choices apply to this device, in every project where Personalise is installed, and the extra font files only download once you install the module.