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I’ve been thinking about how nice it would be to have a proper Writing Home Page when opening Opus Writer, not just opening an individual project file. Basically a place that gives a quick overview of your whole writing world.A user could open Opus Writer and see all of their projects laid out with their titles, covers, word counts, and statuses. Almost like a personal bookshelf of everything they’re working on. It’d make it so much easier to get a sense of how your writing life is looking at a glance. Features could include:<ul><li>Priority markers: little signifiers a user can add to projects they want to focus on.</li><li>A simple calendar view showing any deadlines they’ve set.</li><li>Clicking a project would open the saved OpusWriter file, nice and straightforward</li></ul>I imagine it being somewhat similar to the Manage section inside a project, but zoomed out to cover a user’s entire writing life. Opening the app would allow a user to feel like they’re stepping into their own writing workspace and from there they could choose what to work on next. This would be great for those with a lot of projects on the go at once and don’t know where to place their focus.

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Writing Home Page - your entire writing life at a glance.

David F

I’d like to be able to add custom sections / edit existing section in forms such as the Character Bio so that I can add the elements I use to create my characters.

Custom Character Sheet Values

Kevin O'Brien

When starting a new project, use a chosen story structure alongside a target manuscript length, number of chapters and/or words per chapter to create a scaffolding of chapters with the “tent pole” beats of the chosen story structure inserted at the proper locations, leaving the chapters in between blank but annotating where the escalation and/or reduction in emotional tension should be occurring in those blank chapters as a guide for the author while brainstorming and plotting. This idea could be expanded to take multiple POV inputs (two, three, or more) along with a “pattern” to follow, so that the POV of each chapter in the scaffolding is annotated properly. All of this can obviously be done manually (and this might be just what I do), but if others find something like this useful, it would seem to save a lot of time at the onset of a project.

Outline Scaffolding

Dave Cenker

I’d love to see a feature that lets people turn their own map images into interactive world maps inside the app. The idea isn’t to create maps from scratch, but to take an existing image (whether it’s a PNG, JPG, or SVG) and make it clickable so it becomes a tool and referance point for the project. Users could upload one or several maps, place markers wherever they want, and link each marker to items already in their project, such as locations, characters, organisations, cultures, events, scenes, objects, or even other maps. Clicking a marker would take you straight to the linked entry (or allow you to select from a list of attached entries).It would also help to have a few extra touches, like being able to choose different marker icons or colours, or even using an item’s thumbnail as the marker itself. Some markers could simply be notes, quick reminders or ideas that don’t need their own database entry. Text labels could be placed directly on the map without editing the image, and it would be useful to draw regions or boundaries, such as kingdoms, provinces, forests, or climate zones, and link those shapes to project items as well. Multiple layers would let users switch between different kinds of information on the same map, whether that’s political borders, trade routes, character movements, story events, military campaigns, or historical periods. A grid or distance‑measuring tool would make planning travel easier, especially if users could set their own map scale. Nested maps would allow a world map to link to a continent map, a continent map to a country map, and so on down to individual cities.For writers working with large or geographically detailed worlds, or galaxy-spanning stories, an interactive map could become a central navigation tool for the entire project. Instead of scrolling through long lists, you could simply click on the place where something happens and jump straight to the relevant information. This would be especially helpful for fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and alternate history writers working in projects where geography matters.

Interactive Maps

The brainstorming sheet is cool - but I’d like to be able to build out custom sheets/plugins in the Plot module so that I can recreate worksheets I use for story building inside Opus e.g. I tend to work through John Truby’s book and end up creating worksheets for things like Premise Development, Moral argument etc… It would be awesome to be able to set these up. Or, just be able to add additional sections to the Brainstorm module (and save as a reusable version)

Create custom sheets in Plan section

There have been a few requests for formatting like bold/italics, different size fonts, etc. within the many different text areas within the app. (most of these are in PLAN).

Formatting in various text boxes

Wesley Watts

I’d like to suggest adding a dedicated tasks feature to support writers at every stage of their project, including planning, drafting, editing, and publishing. At any point in their workflow, users would be able to create contextual tasks tied to what they are working on. For example, while outlining a chapter, a writer might add a task such as “Create supporting backstory for character X.”Perhaps this feature could exist within the project management section of the application and act as a flexible organisational tool that helps writers keep track of ideas, revisions, and structural needs.In addition to this, it would be helpful to have an overview area that displays all tasks in one place. This overview could be filtered by options such as priority, completion status, chapter, character, type of task (e.g. world‑building, editing, research), or due date.Another idea is to allow users to set deadlines for tasks. This could include a simple calendar view so writers can see upcoming deadlines and plan their work more effectively.Therefore, key capabilities might include:<ul><li>Task prioritisation: users could assign priority levels or visual indicators to tasks so they can easily identify what needs attention first.</li><li>Task filtering: users could filter tasks by chapter, character, plot thread, location, theme, scene type, deadline, or other project elements so the task list stays relevant to the user’s current focus.</li></ul>I understand this is a fairly large request and would likely require significant development work, but I believe it would add meaningful value to the writing experience by helping users stay organised, maintain momentum and remember what they were last doing (or needs doing next) if they step away from a project for a period of time.

Project Tasks

Support for more languages (Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish and so on).

New languages support

Gabriel Macedo

So firstly not sure if maybe I’m missing any of these things, but if not, I think it would be awesome if there was a built in dictionary as well as a built in thesaurus where you can just highlight a word and get alternate options for words. Also I have been having a lot of red squiggles appear for misspelled words, I’m not finding any quick functions to correct the misspelled words. (I.E. Google docs right click brings up the correct spelling). Maybe I am missing it?

Dictionary/ Synonyms + Spellcorrect

Not Valk

Make the chapter column sticky, so that it stays visible even if you have a lot of grid columns and scroll (too) far to the right.

Plot grid - sticky chapters

Similar to Scribe but the opposite, we should be able to borrow the same engine and create a text to speech option within the app.

Planned

An optional, downloadable, and FREE add on, that will enable in-app dictation support utilizing the same character names, setting names, and canon names (or anything else in your whitelist) to improve accuracy on those tough-to-get-right fantasy/sci-fi names and words.

Scribe

Currently working on some under-the-hood changes that will make some of these other requested features easier/possible to implement.

Back end improvements

From two users: “Folders to store and organize characters.”and“When building characters, settings, and other pieces of canon, could you allow users to nest Character Tools (e.g., Bio and Backstory) under the character’s name (perhaps in a folder) so that all notes related to a specific character, location, or world‑building element can be grouped together? This would prevent the side menu from becoming cluttered and difficult to navigate.”

Completed

Character/Setting/Canon organization

A nested view where you can organize your story through the lens of scenes within chapters and chapters within parts.

New Outline View

The sub entities in these two sheets do not currently link to any other entity. This will be corrected.

Linking Side Characters/Minor Locations

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Color the promises in Sepia theme

Екатерина Лях

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