Scribophile Integration
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
We are super excited to announce our integration with Scribophile, the critiquing community that works.
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Fablehenge Blog
Product Updates, Writing Tips, and Technical Deep Dives
Feature Tour #1 of 5: The Outline
Jen Phillips
product-updates
Stay organized and find what you need fast with the searchable outline.
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Feature Tour #2 of 5: Tags
Jen Phillips
product-updates
Tags keep all your notes just a click away. Easily track who appears in which scene, and visualize relationships between characters. Compared to conventional text editing, tags are a game changer.
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Feature Tour #3 of 5: To-dos
Jen Phillips
product-updates
Integrated to-dos let you pick up your train of thought later, without interrupting your flow.
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Feature Tour #4 of 5: Feedback
Jen Phillips
product-updates
Fablehenge makes it easy to share your work with reviewers and incorporate their feedback. When you're ready for feedback, you have three options.
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Feature Tour #5 of 5: Pro Features
Jen Phillips
product-updates
If you're looking for new ways to streamline your workflow and see your work come to life, you might be interested in Fablehenge's Pro features.
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Timelines
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
We just launched an exciting feature we call "timelines". The timelines view allows you to visualize the relationships between multiple tags and the scenes in your story at once.
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Editing Scenes After Requesting Feedback
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
Our beta feedback feature has been quite popular in spite of being rough around the edges. We are smoothing some of those edges now and recently shipped the ability to rerequest feedback after you have edited a scene.
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OpenProps and Shoelace: A Better Way To Style Svelte
Dusty Phillips
technical
We recently migrated our tech stack off of Flowbite + Tailwind and onto Shoelace + openprops. This article for web developers outlines why we did it and how happy we are with the results.
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Minor Site Redesign
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
As part of some major internal restructuring, we've slightly redesigned the Fablehenge app
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When you get Stuck
Dusty Phillips
on-writing
Writer's block. Is it even real? What's it telling you? And what do you do next?
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Why Fablehenge is a Progressive Web App
Dusty Phillips
technical
The first decision we made when we set out to build Fablehenge is to create a Progressive Web App instead of a native application. The most common question we receive is along the lines of "how do I install it?" or "how do I use it offline?" This article explains what a PWA is and why we think they are...
First Steps in Crafting a Novel
Dusty Phillips
on-writing
It can be intimidating to know where to start when you set out to write a novel. There is a ton of advice out there, and, as advice always does, a lot of it is conflicting. The truth is, every writer is different, and you'll have to find your own path. But finding a path is easier when you have...
Dashboard
Jen Phillips
product-updates
Next time you log in to Fablehenge, you'll see our latest feature: the dashboard. We designed it to give you an overview of your recent writing activity, as well as quick access to your latest books and feedback.
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Search
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
One of our long-standing feature requests has finally been implemented: you can now search your entire manuscript for a word or phrase.
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Tag Relationship Maps
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
Brand new feature allows you to visualize relationships between characters, settings, plot points and more using a mind-mapping style interface.
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Feedback Enhancements
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
We shipped scene-level feedback a few weeks ago. You can now mark specific feedback as resolved and see unresolved feedback in the outline. And our pro users now have access to AI-generated feedback!
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Pantsing vs Plotting
Dusty Phillips
on-writing
I can't believe how often the question of Pantsing vs Plotting comes up in various writing forums. I usually prefer the terms "discovery writing" and "outlining," but I acknowledge the desire to use alliteration when comparing the two!
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Auto-suggesting Tags
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
We just finished rolling out an exciting new feature: asking AI to automatically suggest tags for the selected scene. The AI is capable of selecting tags that are already in your book as well as suggesting new tags that you may not have thought of before.
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Our Tech Stack
Dusty Phillips
technical
At Fablehenge, we value craftsmanship. We try to choose technologies that we love working with and that allow us to move quickly and effectively. This article, like all of our technical articles, will be a deep dive, of more interest to software developers out there than authors. Not to worry! We have many articles queued up on that what...
Saving Layout Settings
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
Just a quick quality-of-life update for you today. We now save your layout settings automatically. If you prefer a collapsed sidebar, it will remain collapsed. The width of your outline and right sidebars will be remembered. We also store the expanded/collapsed state of the accordions in the right sidebar.
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Dark Mode
Dusty Phillips
product-updates
Fablehenge now supports dark mode. Jen spent a lot of time tweaking colours to ensure everything looks professional in both themes.
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