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This is fantastic ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Catching this on the replay - super helpful! Lisa is a wonderful teacher! It came around at the right time while I'm drafting a new project. Much gratitude for the post!

Thanks for this. The point that resonated: asking if the reveals are for the discovery writer to help them understand or learn more about the story they're writing. I combine a mixture of plotting and discovery and have definitely 'worked out the story' during the reveals! Love the Character First approach.

I am writing about actual historical events. Can I plot a literal timeline of events that I can then use to plot my novel? When I can see what happens where and with whom, I can see how the subplots fall within the timeline. Thank you.

Yeah, I went to get the update today, and well.. now I'm locked out of Ye Olde Plottr

I have to agree with some of the other comments in this thread. I deliberately downloaded the trial because I thought Plottr would provide the solution for managing books within a series. I followed your video but was sorely disappointed when I realised that the rollup to the series timeline was created entirely manually. I think your methodology is excellent. re creating the series arc first and then adapting your book arcs to fit within the greater series arc. However, as there is no direct linkage between the two views, the idea of having to duplicate data between the two views with no linkages is making me reconsider further evaluation of plottr. Particularly disappointing is the fact that comments pointing out this shortcoming in plottr are now over 2 years old. I would have thought it would have been an obvious feature to implement . The fact that it hasn't been indicates to me that management and development of a series of books functionality is not really high on on your developers priorities. Best solution I've found so far .. but as a result of a 15 minute play, falls well short of what i'm willing to pay for.

I like it and will start using it immediately. Thank you

I hate to admit to this, but my story comes to me in vivid scenes. This part is normal for a pantser. But the scenes come to me not in a series. I wish they did. No, they just drop into consciousness beginning middle end completely out of order For a long time I’m trying to figure out what the story is about. Suddenly I do. Are there other writers that write non-serially then stuck with pulling it altogether?

Awesome thanks for sharing!

Great improvement.

This is exciting. I'm wondering, is it possible to create new cards in the Fulltext view and then go back and organize them on the plotlines after? This would work much better for how I brainstorm books.

I think this is a really cool improvement and I appreciate that there's a legacy button if I prefer to use the older version. One thing I was wondering about however, is that in the legacy, there was a side bar for navigation. However, that doesn't seem to be an option in this new one via the fulltext view. It would be fantastic to have a navigation tab so you could jump to whatever the relevant chapter is instead of having to scroll through all your content until you reach it. Always enjoy seeing these improvements!

Can you use card colors in the full-text view? I couldn't spot a toggle for that

Is there a dark mode?

I have to be honest I find this revamp quite unfriendly. I can change how I have been working for new books but it’s going to make a mess of my existing ones. Now this is perhaps my fault for working ‘wrong’. I personally find it helpful to see how the book progresses through revision. Sometimes I make substantial changes. So each ‘plot line’ is a draft. I also have a reference structure ‘plot line’ so I can keep an eye on pacing. My scene cards are coloured to match the tag for the POV. On the video in the outline view it seems the information I can currently see - assigned characters, locations, tags - is no longer visible. I have my POV characters identified through the tag. It’ll be a real pain when drafting if I can’t see this info at a glance in the outline view.

This looks very helpful. I am one of those who doesn't use card colors. I gather from this, card colors have nothing to do with plotline colors, correct?

When you've done this reorganization, can you export the revised sequence to Scrivener?

I have your book How to Outline a Cozy Mystery and found it very helpful for my first cozy! Question--do your Beats strictly relate to chapters?

well done commentary! 🎉 really thoughtful and considerate and focused on the task at hand

Ooh I can’t wait to jump back into Plottr!! The deep character arc will be fun too and much needed. It’s hard to walk the line between children’s chapter books and middle grade and high school reading if your characters are many ages. I don’t want them to be boring!

I'm so excited and ready for this feature! I'm currently in the "copy/paste" process of combing a couple of my plottr files and it's tedious, to say the least. Plottr has really grown over the years and I'm so happy about that! <3

Okay, for whatever reason, the templates do not open for me at all.

I like the idea of this new feature. I think it could really help me. Thanks.

Excellent, not only did I learn more about the software which I own and haven't used to its ability, but what a blast and great way to brainstorm a story. THANK YOU!!!

I love these examples! And Plottr. I’m very grateful for the TH-cam videos too.

Thanks. This is excellent! So glad I found you.

These are so inspiring!

Plottr keeps getting better and better. Thank you!

I've watched a few of the videos, but it seems you guys are not really tapping into the teaching of the software's fundamentals. There's no true introduction to structuring a plot timeline or information on what each button or feature can achieve. Instead, it seems you guys are trying to teach how "you" would use the program rather than how it works. Based on the help videos I've seen thus far, most of the learning is geared toward non-fiction writers, whereas the consideration for fiction writers is not the focus. I believe your software may work wonders with all types of writers. Long story short, it would be so helpful if a video was made to focus on each button's fundamentals. Nonetheless, it would be helpful to make videos with ALL types of writers in mind, not only NON-fiction writers. With the current help videos, the teacher is beyond the fundamentals, making this program a little confusing to learn. It's almost like teaching someone how to structure a timeline in Adobe Premiere without first teaching them what each button does and how these buttons work in creating a simple and basic timeline. This is just my opinion, but you need a simplified video explaining how the software works. Then, the user can understand how to create their own layout. I will not give up on the software. However, I will simply have to learn as I go because the help videos do not point out this software's fundamentals and true purpose.

Great stuff, Troy! Very helpful and I'll certainly use this. It's worth going deeper into the backstory.

Very excited for this! I have many characters who overlap in different stories! And places as well! Thank you so much for this!

this is going to be great thank you

sweet!! Now I can get into more trouble. Haha Great walk through, thx Troy

Thanks so much Troy. I'm going to try this out right now. i'm very excited

This is great information. I was going to ask you about supplying the demo file/template you were showing on the screen, but you have done so. Thanks.

Great new features, thank you! <3

Thank you!

I've been waiting for this feature! Thank you so much.

Amazing work from y'all, as usual

Quite possibly that most helpful tutorial you've published. I bought her course. It's making me rethink my approach to my next novel. Thanks, Troy

Wow! That was really packed with genius 🎉 really thorough and easy to follow. Thank you for your pace and explanations, because this is so robust. Anybody reading this comment, you must join the class, it's an accelerator. Plotrr is the best.

Quick question: Do you think this 24-chapter outline would be helpful for a short story (roughly 10K words or less)?

Can I change the name of the story segment to something other than ‘chapter’?