Planning & Story Notes
Plan your story and keep your worldbuilding organized.
Your story doesn’t fit in your head.
Plot threads, character backstories, the map of a kingdom you invented on a napkin. It piles up fast. And somewhere in that pile is the one detail you need right now, hiding.
Dabble gives it all a home.
Plan your story with the Plot Grid. Keep characters, worldbuilding, and ideas organized in Characters, the Notebook, and the Ideas project.
Guides in this topic
- How Dabble organizes your storyUnderstand how Dabble organizes your story, splitting a project into the manuscript and the supporting sections like Characters and Notebook.
- Plotting with the Plot GridA plain-language guide to Dabble's Plot Grid, where plot lines and plot points let you outline your story on a visual board.
- Create and use plot lines and plot pointsHow to add plot lines and plot points in Dabble's Plot Grid, insert and delete rows, and decide what happens to a scene's plot points when you move the scene.
- Outline with the Scenes viewUse Dabble's Scenes view to see every scene in a book as a card, write a one-line summary for each, and drag them into order without opening the prose.
- Organize Story NotesUse story notes in Dabble's Notebook section to keep your worldbuilding, lore, and research organized in folders and notes alongside your manuscript.
- Add characters and castsAdd characters and casts in Dabble, fill in each character's details, and keep your story's people organized.
- Link notes with @mentionsLink notes with @mentions in Dabble: type @ in any editor to connect to a character, scene, or note, then click the link to jump straight there.
- Use sticky notesUse draggable, colored sticky notes on a scene, character, or notebook page in Dabble to keep reminders right where you write.
- Add notes to a scene, character, or pagePin quick notes to any scene, chapter, or character in Dabble using the Notes tab, so your reminders live right beside the writing they belong to.
- Label scenes, plot points, and notesAdd colored labels to scene cards, plot points, and notes in Dabble, reuse one from Existing Labels, and use Update all to rename or recolor a label across the whole project.
- Capture ideasCapture ideas in Dabble's Ideas project on your dashboard: jot down story ideas, organize them in folders, send one to a project you already have, or convert one into a brand-new project.
- Use templatesUse templates in Dabble to build reusable scenes, characters, and notes once in your project's Templates folder, then insert copies anywhere with a click.