What’s new

Improved

• The free trial is now 14 days, up from 7. If you're trying Threadbound now, you get the extra days too.
• A new website. threadbound.ink has been redesigned, with new Features, Pricing, Help and About pages, and screenshots from the new sample. What's new now lives at /changelog/; old links still work.
• A new sample project: Low Water. The sample is now a story of our own, a low-fantasy trilogy about a river town, its ferry and a ledger that goes missing. It's written to look like a book in progress: the first volume is finished, the second drafted and the third still planned, with most plot threads still open. It comes with examples for Manuscript, Codex, Multi-calendar and Notebooks, and the Codex tour now walks through it.
• A tidier Timeline toolbar. Secondary dates and Periods are now together under one Show button, so the toolbar stays on one line with more modules switched on.
• New window, from any view. The new-window button is now in the top bar, so you can open Timeline, Board, Maps or any other view in a second window, on the same project and book. From Manuscript or Notebooks it opens at the scene you're on, and from Codex at the open entry.
• Comments in focus mode. Focus mode now keeps the buttons to comment on selected text, show comments and open the summary.

Fixed

• With two windows open, switching book in one no longer half-switches the other. Each window now keeps its own book, and the last one you picked is still where Threadbound opens next time.
• Maps: Choose image…, shown for a map whose picture isn't on this device, now opens the file picker. Before, it did nothing.
• Codex: the Details tab of a place or thing whose category has no fields yet (Sea, Forest, Building and many more in the starter sets) was blank. It now says so, with a button to add fields to that category, which brings you back to the entry when you're done.
• The clear (×) button in search boxes (Codex, Settings → Modules) now matches the app instead of showing the browser's blue one.

Good to know

• If you already have the old Lord of the Rings sample, it stays until you delete it (Settings → Manage Projects). Load sample project adds the new one alongside it.

New

• Load all your projects from Google Drive at once. Manage Projects → Load from Drive now lists every Threadbound backup in your Google Drive. Projects that aren't on this device yet are ticked, so setting up a new device is one click instead of one trip per project. If your backups are in more than one Drive folder, you pick the folder first. Encrypted backups show their names once you unlock them with your passphrase, and loading turns on Cloud Sync for that device, using the same folder.
• Export reminders. In Settings → Export & Import you can ask Threadbound to remind you to export a full backup every so many days. It's off unless you turn it on.

Improved

• Keyboard shortcuts, listed. Settings → Help now has a Keyboard shortcuts section covering popups, reordering, Reader, Maps and notes fields.
• Cloud Backup is now Cloud Sync, since it keeps your devices in step rather than only keeping a copy. If it isn't set up on a device yet, Manage Projects says so and lets you connect Google Drive and choose your folder right there.
• Deleting something now deletes it on your other devices too. Until now, a to-do, chapter or anything else you deleted for good on one device came back if another device still had it and backed up. Now the deletion travels with your Google Drive backups (and backup files), so it sticks everywhere.
• Nothing disappears without a way back. When another device's deletion reaches this one, threads, events and books go to this device's Recycle Bin, and everything else goes to a new Deleted on another device section of the Recycle Bin. Either way you can restore them for as long as your Recycle Bin keeps things (30 days unless you've changed it). Anything you edited on this device after it was deleted elsewhere is kept.
• A simpler window when changes come in. Bringing in another device's changes, or restoring a backup, now starts with a few plain lines: what's added or changed, what was deleted, and what's newer on this device. The full comparison is still there under "Show details".

Good to know

• Update Threadbound on all your devices: a device still on an older version doesn't know about deletions yet and keeps the things you deleted (your updated devices won't take them back).
• Deleting a whole project (Manage projects) still only removes it from the device you're on.

Improved

• Threadbound tells you when it can't save. If your writing can't be saved (for example, another tab has updated Threadbound, or your device is out of space), a red bar now appears in the editor, in focus mode too. Your text stays on screen with a button to copy it, and saving is tried again. Event and thread windows say "Not saved" and ask before closing.
• Export & delete waits for you. Deleting a project after exporting it is now two steps: the export downloads, you check the file is there, and only then choose to delete.
• Emptying the Recycle Bin now says how many events go with the threads being deleted.

Fixed

• Updating no longer reloads your other windows. Pressing Update in one tab used to reload every open Threadbound tab. Now only that tab reloads, after saving what you were typing; the others ask you to reload when you're ready.
• Google Drive: projects with the same name keep separate backups. Two projects with the same name could end up sharing one backup file in Drive and replacing each other's copy. If you have two projects with the same name, back each one up again after updating.
• Google Drive: changes to a project's name or calendar stick. A rename or calendar change made on one device could be undone by another device.
• Restores bring across things you removed. Taking something back out of the Recycle Bin, removing an end date, or moving an event back to the whole series on one device is now picked up when another device restores.
• Deleting a thread for good now also deletes the events that were only on it, instead of leaving them hidden in the project and its backups.
• Reordering threads, or ticking a to-do, no longer overwrites a change made to the same item in another window.
• Calendar month names can contain commas and colons. A month named, say, "Sun's Height, Late" used to split into extra months when a backup was restored, moving every date in the project. Back up again after updating.
• Manuscript: restoring keeps your latest text in every revision. If another device had switched a scene to a different revision, restoring its backup could lose this device's latest text for the revision you'd been writing in. That text now goes into its revision, and if the backup had newer text for it too, that is kept as a snapshot.
• A restore that stops part-way says so. If a restore can't finish (for example, your device runs out of space), you're told it stopped part-way and that restoring the same backup again finishes it, instead of only seeing an error.
• Google Drive: a backup no longer replaces one that another device saved to Drive while it was being prepared. It waits and offers to bring those changes in first.
• Encrypted backups: locking, changing the passphrase or turning encryption off in one tab now applies straight away in your other open tabs.
• Importing an old backup (from before backups named their project) twice no longer moves things out of the project the first import made.
• Restores refuse files far larger than Threadbound ever writes, so a damaged or tampered backup can't freeze the app.
• Settings → Cloud Backup now says that deleting something on one device doesn't delete it on your others.
• Better with a keyboard and screen readers. Popups are now announced as dialogs, keep keyboard focus inside them, and return it to where you were when they close; every form field has a name a screen reader can read. Threads, chapters, scenes, books, Codex lists and tabs can be reordered from the keyboard: focus a drag handle and use the arrow keys (Shift+Left/Right for tabs). Focused fields in the Codex and Maps now show where you are, and small grey labels are easier to read.
• "Backup paused" in the sidebar. If the open project's Google Drive backup is waiting (Drive needs reconnecting, encryption is locked, or another device's changes need bringing in first), the sidebar now says so, and clicking it opens Cloud Backup.
• Clearer restores. Restoring a backup now shows what it will bring in, item type by item type, in Threadbound's own window, and the result appears there too, instead of in plain browser pop-ups.
• Esc now closes every popup, including ones without a Cancel button.
• Dates after a calendar change. If you shorten or remove a month, events on days that no longer exist now show the date they're actually placed on, instead of a date that doesn't match their spot on the Timeline. Saving the calendar offers to move them to that day for good.
• Threadbound now warns you when your device is nearly out of space for it, before saving starts to fail. The installed app also asks your browser to keep its storage safe from automatic clean-ups.
• Settings → Calendar now says that every year has the same number of days (there are no leap years).
• The app starts a little faster: the backup code loads only when you first back up or restore.
• A few small fixes: the passphrase box uses the app's font, and the editor toolbar no longer draws a stray line after its last group.
• If an encrypted backup still won't open after two tries, the message now says the file itself may be damaged, rather than only asking for the passphrase again.

Improved

• Restoring asks you to update first. If a newer Threadbound is available, or the backup was made by a newer version, restoring now offers to update first, so nothing in the backup is left out. This works from version 1.5.1 on, so update any device still on an older version by hand before restoring a backup on it.
• Load from computer. Manage Projects can now load a project from a backup file on your computer, next to Load from Drive. Loading a project, from either place or from Settings → Export & Import, opens it straight away.
• Summaries for parts. Manuscript parts can now have a summary, like chapters and scenes. Select a part in the binder and open Summary from the toolbar.
• If some files in a backup can't be read, the message now says this may be because the backup is from a newer version, and that you can update and restore it again.

Fixed

• Google Drive backups are no longer overwritten by an older version. If the copy in Drive was saved by a newer Threadbound on another device, an older device used to replace it on its next backup, losing what it couldn't read (for example, comments). Backups to Drive now pause until you update, and say why. If this happened to you, Google Drive keeps earlier versions of the file: download one from Drive and use Load from computer.
• Goals: words brought in by restoring a backup no longer count as words you wrote today.

New

• Split view in Manuscript. Revise in one pane while reading another revision, or any snapshot, in a read-only pane beside it. Pick what to show from a drop-down; it works in focus mode too. Snapshots can now be read without restoring them.
• New window opens on your scene. The second window lands on the scene you were working on, ready for a second monitor.
• Reader mode in Manuscript. Read your book page by page, full screen, the way it would look on an e-reader. Pick a device size, font, text size, spacing, margins and a light, sepia, dark or e-ink page, with an optional two-page spread. See page numbers and your progress, jump from a contents page, and pick up where you left off. Open it from a scene, a chapter, a part, or the Reader button above the binder. Select words in a paragraph to leave a note, then find all your notes in the Notes tab of the comments panel. "Edit this" takes you back to that spot in the editor. Page counts are approximate, since they depend on the device size and settings you choose.
• Snapshots in one place. The camera button in the editor now opens a Snapshots window where you save a snapshot, see the list and restore one. The editor toolbar is also regrouped, with comments, versions and reading tools together.
• Choose how automatic snapshots work. Turn the daily automatic snapshot off, or pick how long they're kept: 30 days by default, up to 180. This applies to Manuscript, Notebooks and Codex notes, for each project. Snapshots you save yourself are never deleted automatically. Automatic snapshots older than 30 days are cleared the next time you open a scene; set a longer period first if you want to keep them.
• Comments are now in your backups. Comments in Manuscript, Notebooks and Codex notes are saved in both exported and Google Drive backups. After a restore, each comment goes back onto its words, or waits in a new Notes tab if those words have changed. Snapshots are not in Google Drive backups and stay on the device that made them; an export from Settings → Export & Import keeps them. Update every device before restoring a new backup on it.
• Smaller backups. Backups are now compressed, and Google Drive backups leave out your book cover, so they're typically a fraction of their old size. An exported backup still keeps everything.
• Clearer backup settings. Cloud Backup shows your connection, folder and last backup at a glance, and lists exactly what a Drive backup holds.
• Goals has a Timer tab. Goals now has Goals and Timer tabs along the top, like Codex and Manuscript. The sprint timer and your sprint history have moved to the Timer tab.

Fixed

• Settings: searching in the Modules tab now matches module names only, not their descriptions.
• Tick boxes across the app now share one look, with a gold tick and the same size. The two options in the sprint timer no longer sit awkwardly indented.
• EPUB: the break between scenes in a chapter is now a centred "* * *" line. On a Kindle it used to start the next scene on a new page, part-way down, as if it needed a title. Reader mode shows the same break.
• Manuscript: the scroll bar in the editor now shows the normal arrow cursor instead of the text cursor.

New

• Sprint timer in Goals. Start a timed writing sprint (25 minutes by default, with a short break afterwards) and Threadbound counts the words you write in it. Finished sprints are kept, with your words per minute.
• A floating timer you can drag anywhere. It stays on screen while you write in Manuscript, including focus mode, and the countdown shows in the tab title. Pause, stop, or start a break from it. A chime plays when time is up, and you can turn on a notification for when Threadbound is in the background.
• Pin the timer to the top bar, or along the top edge in focus mode, if you'd rather it stayed put.

Removed

• The “By thread” section in Goals. It didn't suit writers who discover their plot as they go.

Improved

• Timeline polish: stretched events lose the bar above them, every event in a lane is the same height, and undated events sit on the same line as dated ones.
• The book dropdown is shorter, and the active book is highlighted in it.
• Manuscript: the Link plot events button is hidden in focus mode.

Fixed

• Google Drive no longer interrupts focus mode. Backups now wait until you leave Manuscript focus mode instead of popping up Google mid-sentence.
• A new event must have a thread, so it can't vanish. The Timeline also stays where you scrolled it.

New

• Write a series in one project. Choose “+ Add a book” in the project menu and your project becomes a series: one set of threads, timeline and Codex shared by every book, with each event, to-do and chapter in its own book. A single novel looks exactly as before.
• Pick the book you're working on in the sidebar. Timeline, Board and To-do can show one book or the whole series, and the Timeline shows a band for each book.
• Manuscript per book: each book has its own chapters, Details, cover and exports. “Whole series” shows every book, and you can drag chapters between them.
• Stats: counts of events, threads, words, chapters and more, for one book or the whole series. Open it from the book menu or Manage projects.
• Codex knows your books: an entry's appearances are grouped by book, and the Characters list can show who appears in a chosen book.

Improved

• The sample project is now the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings.
• Manuscript is chapters first. “+ Chapter” leads the binder, and grouping chapters is optional. Groups are now called Parts, and you can call them whatever you like (Acts, Arcs, Sections…) with “Rename” under the binder header.
• “+ Add a book” lives in the book menu once a project is a series; a single book shows “Make this a series…” in the project menu instead. The project and book menus no longer open on top of each other.
• Name your devices. When you activate a license you can give the device a name, like “Study laptop”, and rename it later in Settings → License, so your devices are easy to tell apart.
• Map pins show their Codex summary when you select one, right above “Open in Codex”.
• When Threadbound is installed as an app, its window title bar now matches the sidebar, in light, dark and every colour theme.
• “+ New event” only shows on Timeline and Board, where events live.

New

• Collapsible sidebar. The arrow beside the logo shrinks the sidebar to a narrow strip, giving a module's own sidebar more room. The thread list now shows only on Timeline and Board.
• Theme by time of day. In Settings → Appearance, switch to light by day and dark by night, with times you choose.
• Goals: switch the activity view between the heatmap and a day-by-day list.
• Search in Settings → Modules, and the list now scrolls instead of filling the screen.

Improved

• Enter and Esc work in every popup: Esc closes it, Enter confirms from a text field.
• The Google Drive check notice no longer covers the menus, and automatic checks wait until you leave focus mode.

New

• Four new Codex starter sets. Romantasy, Urban fantasy, Historical fiction, and Mystery and thriller join Fantasy, Science fiction and Contemporary. The Fantasy set also gains a Buildings group (inn, shop, temple, palace, tower, school). Starter sets only apply to new codexes.
• Summaries for scenes and chapters. Each scene now has its own summary, in the Summary tab beside Comments. Open a chapter to write the chapter's summary from the toolbar. Both are included in your backups.

Improved

• The Comments and Summary panel stays open as you move between scenes and chapters.
• Resolved comments no longer leave their text highlighted. Hover or click one in the panel to see where it was.
• Adding a comment: Enter saves it, Shift+Enter starts a new line, and Esc cancels.
• The Codex sidebar keeps its scroll position when you pick a category, and update checks explain that nothing changes until you choose to update.

Fixed

• Hovering a chapter or scene in the binder no longer shifts its status to the left.

New

• Chapter summaries in Manuscript. Jot down notes or goals for a chapter. The comments panel on the right now has Comments and Summary tabs, and a new toolbar button opens it straight to the summary of the chapter you're writing in. Summaries save as you type and are included in your backups.
• Strikethrough. A new S button in the editor's toolbar, in Manuscript, Notebooks and Codex. Struck-through text carries into EPUB and Markdown exports.

Improved

• Em dashes as you type. Type two hyphens and then the next word, and the hyphens become an em dash (word--next or word -- next).
• Focus mode toolbar. The toolbar is now centred on the screen instead of sitting on the left.

New

• Revisions in Manuscript. Rewrite a scene without losing the old version. The branch button in the editor's toolbar opens a scene's revisions: start a new one from a copy of what you're viewing or from a blank page, switch between them, and choose which one is active, which is the one used for word counts, exports and the Status tab. You can rename, delete and restore revisions, or copy one into a scene of its own. Each revision keeps its own comments and snapshots, and revisions are included in your backups.
• Read aloud in Manuscript. The speaker button reads your scene aloud and highlights each sentence as it goes. Select some text to hear just that, or click where you want to start and it reads on from there. It only uses voices built into your device or browser, so nothing you write is ever sent anywhere.
• E-book (EPUB) export. Manuscript's Export menu now makes an EPUB, with each act as a part page, each chapter as its own page, and a linked table of contents. It works in any EPUB reader, and Kindles open it through Amazon's Send to Kindle.
• A Details tab in Manuscript. Next to Manuscript and Status, fill in your book's title, subtitle, author, language, series and book number, blurb and cover image. They go into the title page and the file's own details, so an e-reader shows your cover, author and series in its library. Covers can be JPEG, PNG or WebP; each one is shrunk and saved as a JPEG inside your project, so it is included in your backups.
• Title, copyright and dedication pages. Exports now open with a cover, a title page, an optional copyright page ("© year Author. All rights reserved.", plus any notes of your own, such as an ISBN or "this is a work of fiction") and an optional dedication. The PDF and Markdown exports use the same details.
• Chapter numbers in exports. Choose "Chapter 1: Name" or "1. Name" in the Details tab, and exports number your chapters for you, with the number on its own line above the chapter name. Chapters you have already named "Chapter 5", "Prologue" and so on are left as you wrote them.
• Maps module. Upload maps of your world and pin places on them. Give a pin its own colour, or a colour per Codex category, and a legend filters pins by category. Pins link to Codex entries (and open them) or to other maps, and each Codex entry shows where it is pinned. Lock a map's pins so they can't be dragged by accident, and replace a map's picture with a new version without losing its pins. Tick the maps to put in your EPUB and PDF on the Details tab. Map images are saved in Export, but not in Google Drive backups; the pins and details are.

Improved

• Matching icons everywhere. Buttons across the app and this website now use one set of simple one-colour icons that follow your theme, starting with the editor's toolbar in Manuscript, Notebooks and Codex.
• Binder rows keep their status. A scene or chapter's status and word count are no longer hidden behind the add, rename and delete buttons when you hover over it.
• Clearer restores from Google Drive. When a restore finds newer work on this device, the dialog compares what differs by type, shows the latest edit on each side and lists the items where this device is newer. A new duplicates picker lets you compare backup files, keep one and delete the rest.

Fixed

• No more duplicate Drive backups. A backup file that had been deleted or replaced in Drive no longer causes a second copy to be created.

New

• Encrypted Google Drive backups. In Settings → Cloud Backup, tick "Encrypt backups with a passphrase" and your backups are scrambled on your device before they upload, so Google (including Gemini) can't read them. Only Threadbound can open them, with your passphrase. There's a Lock button if you want the passphrase asked for again, and restoring on a new device just asks for it.
• Changing your backup folder moves your backups. Pick a new Google Drive folder and your existing backups move there, instead of staying behind in the old one, so there is still one backup per project.
• Change your backup passphrase. A new button in Settings → Cloud Backup re-saves your backups under a new passphrase, and your other devices ask for it next time they check Drive. Encrypted backups are also now named by project number rather than project name, so Google can't see what your novel is called.
• No readable copies left behind. When you turn encryption on (or change your passphrase), Threadbound offers to delete your existing backup files from Google Drive, including the earlier versions Drive keeps, once each one has been re-saved encrypted.
• Encrypted backups stay encrypted. A device that hasn't been given your passphrase can't replace an encrypted backup with an unencrypted one: it asks for the passphrase instead. A device that still encrypts tells you if another device saved an unencrypted copy, and re-encrypts it. New passphrases are also checked against common, easily guessed ones.

Improved

• Restores name the projects. Before anything is restored, the confirmation now lists the projects inside the backup, so you can tell what you're about to bring in even when the file's name doesn't say.

New

• Straight into the sample project. The "Try the sample project" link on the website now opens the Lord of the Rings sample directly, whatever else is already in the app.

Improved

• Codex entry pages. Places, objects and organisations open on their notes, with the short facts and category fields on a new Details tab, so the notes get the room.
• Codex lists. World lists, Search, Unplaced and Lore lists show each row in a card, like the Characters list.
• Fantasy starter set. New Codex projects using it get a Currency category, plus Currency and Official religion fields on Nation.

New

• Threadbound is for sale. One payment of US$40, no subscription. Every module and every future version is included.
• Free 7-day trial. Everyone gets a week with every feature, no card needed. If you were using the beta, your trial starts when this update reaches you.
• License keys. After you buy, your key is shown on the page you land on and emailed to you. Paste it in Settings → License. It works on up to 5 devices, and you can free a slot from any device. Lost it? "Lost your key?" in the same place emails it again.

Good to know

• Threadbound never locks you out of your writing. If a trial ends or a license is refunded, the app becomes read-only: you can still open, read and search every project, and export, backup and restore keep working.
• Payments are handled by Stripe, so tax is worked out for you at checkout. Refunds are available for 14 days, no reason needed. See the refund policy.

New

• Character art link. Add a link to a character's art, such as a Hero Forge share link or any other https:// address, from the pencil popup. A "View character art" link then appears on their profile and opens in a new tab. Nothing is uploaded or fetched, and the link is included in backups.

Improved

• Codex top bar. ⚙ Categories now sits beside New window, so it's reachable from every section, and the Characters / World / Lore / Plot tabs can be dragged into whatever order suits you.
• Notes live on the Overview. A character's notes sit under their facts instead of on a separate tab (Focus mode still works).
• Characters list. Each group is its own card, with the one-line summary under every name.
• Lists in long text. The bullet button now makes real • bullets; press it again for dashes, and again to remove the list.
• Summary when creating. New entries from a category list and from Add to… now have a one-line summary box, like new characters and the edit popup.

Improved

• Lists in long text. Character descriptions (and every other long-text field) have • List and 1. List buttons. Press Enter to continue a list, and Enter on an empty item to finish it.
• Renaming. Characters and entries have a pencil beside the trash button that opens a popup to edit the name and summary.
• Pronouns are no longer offered when creating a character. If an older project still has a Pronouns field, you can delete it under Profile fields.

Fixed

• Creating a character in Codex replaced every lowercase "s" in the name and summary with a space ("Vashkir" became "Va hkir"). New characters now keep their text exactly as typed. Characters created in 0.13.1 need those letters retyped by hand.

New

• Codex tour. A guided walkthrough of Codex on the sample project. Start it from Settings → Help, or from the Tour link beside Codex in Settings → Modules.
• Choosing a place is easier. "Located in" and "Also in" open a tree you can unfold, with a category filter and a Places only switch, and you can create a new place right there instead of only picking from existing ones.
• Character templates. New characters start from Basic (a few lines, for minor characters) or Detailed (the full profile, for major ones). Gender (male, female or other) replaces Pronouns in new projects.
• Categories explain themselves. Each category has a short note on what belongs in it, which you can edit. The Fantasy set also gains Army, Religious order, Mercenary company, Criminal group and Order under Organisations.
• Drag to reorder families, categories, fields and choice options, instead of using arrows.
• The Codex sidebar can be dragged wider or narrower, and has Expand all and Collapse all.

Improved

• Appearances, Contains, Connections, Relationships and character Description pages are split into clear sections, so they no longer blur together.
• Creating a place from another place's link field, such as a nation's Capital, now puts it inside that nation automatically.

Fixed

• Allowing several choices on a character's Role broke the Characters filters. Role now works either way, and can't be deleted, since the Characters list depends on it.

New

• Codex module. Structured worldbuilding and characters for stories with a lot of world. Pick a starter set (fantasy, science fiction, contemporary, or blank) and every category and field is yours to change. Turn it on in Settings → Modules.
• Categories and places. Everything in Codex has a category (nation, city, lake…) and a place in your world. List all your lakes in one go, or open a nation to see everything inside it, with a Locations tree to browse by place.
• Characters get their own section: grouped by role, with profiles covering their details, description, relationships and notes. A Parent on one profile shows as a Child on the other.
• Lore has its own section for magic systems, languages, religions, customs and history, each with room for the long writing. Its History view lays your eras out in time and lists every plot event that falls inside each one, worked out from the dates alone.
• Connections between places, factions and objects (allied with, vassal of, owned by…), and fields that link entries, like a nation's ruler or capital.
• Plot links. Tag where each event happens and who is involved, from an entry or from the new Plot list. Every entry gets an Appearances tab, characters show their age at each event, and events set in a city also count for its region and nation.
• With Manuscript, Codex finds where each entry is named in your prose, suggests events you may have missed linking (you confirm each one), and tells you when a character hasn't been seen for several chapters. It's plain name matching, done on your device.
• The sample project now has a Codex of Middle-earth to explore.

Improved

• The Goals and Personalise modules are now listed on the Threadbound website.

New

• Personalise module. Soft pastel colour themes, extra fonts, and a “soft shapes” switch, plus links (a Pinterest board, a Spotify playlist, any web page) on your threads and events and an emoji icon for each thread. Turn it on in Settings → Modules; the look options are under Settings → Appearance.
• Goals module. Set word-count goals (with a one-click November challenge), see how much of your book is planned and written, and keep track of your writing streaks.

Improved

• Threads and named periods now have 24 colours to choose from, including soft pastels.
• A sharper Threadbound logo and app icon.
• Settings → Modules lists the modules alphabetically.

Fixed

• Google Drive sync now checks for changes on its own on a phone.

New

• Sync between devices. When you open a project, Threadbound checks Google Drive for a newer copy saved from another device and offers to update. Set it up in Settings → Cloud Backup. Items deleted permanently don’t sync yet.
• Bullet and numbered lists in the Manuscript and Notebooks editors.

Improved

• Timeline lanes sit closer together, so more threads fit on screen.
• Threadbound fits phone screens better: the tabs scroll sideways and Settings no longer runs off the edge.
• The Manuscript and Notebooks editors show where the page ends.
• Renaming a project renames its Google Drive backup too, and the update popup’s button now says “Update”.

Fixed

• Uneven paragraph spacing in the editors, US-style dates in history, and a handful of smaller fixes to the Board and Cloud Backup.

New

• Notebooks module. Keep worldbuilding, character notes and research in notebooks and sections, with the same editor as Manuscript: comments, snapshots and focus mode. You can drag sections between notebooks, restore deleted ones from the trash, and open notebooks in a second window. Export to PDF (A4) or Markdown. Turn it on in Settings → Modules.
• Collapse and expand acts, chapters and notebooks in Manuscript and Notebooks, one at a time or all at once.
• Event and thread popups save as you type. Closing one never loses what you entered, and “Undo changes” puts things back the way they were.
• Choose when to update. The “new version” popup has an Ignore button, and Settings → About can check for and install updates.
• “What’s new” links in the update popup and in Settings → About lead here.
• Link Plot Events: filter the list by thread. Events are now listed in date order.
• The Threadbound title in the top left opens this website in a new tab.

Improved

• Undated events appear as faded “ghost” cards on the Board and Timeline, and sort below dated events, oldest first.
• More space between paragraphs in the Manuscript and Notebooks editors.
• Drag a chapter onto the “Unsorted” heading to take it out of its act, or a section out of its notebook.
• Long titles in the Manuscript and Notebooks lists have more room. The edit buttons only appear when you hover over a row.
• Help and About are now separate sections in Settings.

Fixed

• Scrolling over a tall Board column now scrolls that column instead of sliding the board sideways.
• The Timeline minimap’s highlight no longer fills the whole bar at Month and Year zoom.
• Deleted scenes no longer appear in Manuscript’s PDF and Markdown exports, and an export straight after typing now includes the latest text.
• Selecting text in a popup and letting go outside it no longer closes the popup.
• Google Drive backup now stays connected when you’re signed into more than one Google account.

The first public beta. Everything below is new.

• Threads, Timeline, Board and To-do. Reorder and recolour threads, and add details: type, description, tropes, goal, stakes and notes. The Timeline zooms from hours to decades and has a minimap and multi-day events. The Board gives each thread a column, and there's a to-do list.
• Your own calendar. Name the months, set their lengths and name the calendar. Tracking time of day is optional, and a day can have any number of hours.
• Multiple projects. Switch between novels, rename them and delete them. A sample project and a guided walkthrough help you get started.
• Recycle Bin for threads and events, emptied automatically after a period you choose.
• Backups you can read. Export your whole library as one zip of plain text files. Importing merges safely and keeps whichever version is newer. You can also turn on automatic backup to Google Drive and restore from it.
• Modules, all included and switched on per project:
  • Multi-calendar: extra calendars aligned to your main one, a date converter, second calendars' dates on the Timeline, and named periods such as seasons, festivals and eras.
  • Manuscript: an act, chapter and scene binder with a writing editor, comments, snapshots, a whole-chapter reading view and word counts. A Status view shows which plot events have scenes, and you can export to Markdown or PDF.
• Install it like an app from your browser, and use it offline. Light and dark themes.
• Private by design. Your writing stays on your device. There's no tracking, and nothing loads from outside sources except Google's sign-in, and only if you use Drive backup.