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Dictionary/ Synonyms + Spellcorrect

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?

Not Valk 3 days ago

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

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: Priority markers: little signifiers a user can add to projects they want to focus on. A simple calendar view showing any deadlines they’ve set. Clicking a project would open the saved OpusWriter file, nice and straightforward 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.

David F 11 days ago

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Mind Maps - Groups and Focus Mode

It would be amazing if we could group connected notes/nodes and give each group a name so that you can see at a glance what that cluster relates to. Once grouped, a Focus mode could highlight that cluster while dimming everything else. When a mind map gets large and cumbersome, being able to zoom in on one train of thought without losing the bigger picture would be really useful. It’d also help if each group could have an anchor note where clicking the group would centre the map on that note that the ideas and train of thought has sprung from.

David F 11 days ago

Promise and Seed Trackers

I’d like the Promise and Seed Tracker to work across an entire series instead of being limited to one book. It duplicates seeds because I have to repeat them for each book causing it to be confusing. It remains visible as unresolved (show write section [acts as a reminder to solve the seed]) while working in any book in that series. It can be marked resolved in a later book, chapter, or scene. [maybe checkmark we have to check] The tracker should show where it was created, where it was updated, and where it was resolved. Seed tracker grid needs some updating. It will sometimes show the seed effects in the chapters but other times it won’t show them (plant, grow, harvest, or imbalanced alert). This is a bug report but there isn’t a spot for bugs on the forum only features. So I hope you don’t mind me posting it here. Wesley you are doing a great job! 😃 Keep up the great work! We appreciate you.

Cass Rosewood 13 days ago

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Images in Mind Maps - Aspect Ratio and Size

Right now, users can only add images that match the aspect ratios required by the app, which means any image that does not fit has to be cropped before it can be used. It would be much easier if users could upload images in any aspect ratio and adjust their size directly within a mind map. Since image resizing already works well in Sticky Notes, having the same ability in Mind Maps would make the experience more consistent and much more convenient for the user.

David F 13 days ago

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Tag System for characters, settings and canon + named saved filters / smart folders

I’d love to see a flexible tagging system added to the Characters, Settings, and Canon sections of the application. Such a system, combined with saved filters or smart folders, would give users far more control over how they organise their story’s reference materials and world-building. Instead of relying on fixed categories, each character, location, or canon entry could have any number of user‑defined tags. This would let users structure their project materials in whatever way suits them best, whether that’s by species, affiliation, region, story arc, or any other custom label. Users could then filter characters, locations, and canon entries by one or more tags. Filters could include single tags (e.g., species: elf) or combinations (e.g., species: elf + affiliation: rebellion). These tag combinations could be saved as named filters or named smart folders. Such filters or smart folders would automatically display only the items that match the selected tags. This would be especially helpful for users focusing on a particular part of their project (e.g a specified subset of their world-building such as “Elvish agents or the Elvian Empire involved in the Dwarven Rebellions”) over multiple writing sessions, letting them view only the relevant material without repeatedly rebuilding the same filters.

David F 14 days ago

Interactive Maps

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.

David F 14 days ago

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Project Tasks

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: Task prioritisation: users could assign priority levels or visual indicators to tasks so they can easily identify what needs attention first. 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. 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.

David F 15 days ago

Mind Maps - Anchors / Save Points

Users could benefit from the ability to create anchor nodes or saved nodes within their mind maps. As a map grows, navigating through large clusters of ideas becomes challenging, and having designated points to return to would make it much easier to stay oriented. Save Points would also help users resume a mind‑mapping session by jumping directly to the nodes where they want to continue developing ideas or expanding specific branches of thought. Being able to create multiple Save Points would let users mark several areas of interest and revisit them quickly in future sessions.

David F 15 days ago

Create custom sheets in Plan section

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)

Kevin O'Brien 15 days ago

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Custom sections in outline

When building an outline I’d like to be able to both cusomise the drop down values in existing from down lists and add new section - kink of like Scrivener ‘Custom Metadata’. When I outline in Scrivener I create values to track items such as the Goal / Conflict / Outcome / ‘And So?’ for each scene. It would be great to be able to add these to the outline so that they show up in the sidebar when drafting.

Kevin O'Brien 15 days ago