Book Tools & Data Visualization

Leverage meta-data to ensure your story structure, character screen-time, and worldbuilding remain balanced.

Accessing Book Tools

On the Chapters overview page for any book, you will find a Book Tools dropdown menu. This menu houses several administrative and analytical views of your manuscript.

POV Heatmap

If you write stories with multiple narrators or Point-of-View characters, the Heatmap is an essential tool.

The Heatmap visualizes the distribution of POV scenes across the entirety of your book. It allows you to quickly identify at-a-glance if one character is dominating the narrative, or if a crucial viewpoint character has been neglected for too many consecutive chapters.

(Note: A scene must have a designated POV Character Element assigned on the Scene form for it to appear on the heatmap.)

Element Appearances

The Element Appearances tool acts as a reverse-index for your worldbuilding.

When you insert [[element:ID]] tokens into your drafted text, the system tracks exactly where those characters, locations, or items are mentioned. The Appearances view gives you a comprehensive listing of every Chapter and Scene where a specific Element appears in the text.