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Manuscript Management Abilities / Ideas for expanding Manuscript usability.

New Feature Addition · Manuscripts · Created by Akmedrah
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manuscript -managment -linking chapters

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

  I feel that the manuscript section of the site is great, but it could be better with some new features/additional control abilities. 

How does this feature request address the current situation?

  This is a request for the World Anvil team to give us all the ability to control our manuscripts just a little more. The primary abilities that I believe would be of the most benefit to the community are as follows:
  1. The ability to change the world to which a manuscript is associated.
  2. The ability to transfer a chapter from one manuscript to another.
In addition to these two primary points, there are several other things that would be great features to add to manuscripts, but I am unsure of how feasible they are:
  1. The ability to Import/Export manuscripts from google docs, .pdf, .txt, .docx, ECT.
  2. The ability to link chapters to different calendars/content trees/secrets.
  3. The ability to add to TO-DO lists from the editor.
  4. The ability to use variables in the manuscripts.
  5. The ability to insert World Anvil Tables, in addition to the normal tables you can already insert.
  6. Display associated secrets and articles somewhere on the page of each chapter.

What are other uses for this feature request?

  As I said I am unsure how some of those would work. But here is how I guess these changes could all be used:  
  • The ability to change the world to which a manuscript is associated.
This one is fairly self-explanatory, and would probably be useful to everyone who uses World Anvil. IF you decide to do away with a world, the manuscript can still be useful and pointed to another world.
  •   The ability to transfer a chapter from one manuscript to another.  
This is also self-explanatory, but I do feel that this could be more applicable to the TTRPG side of things. For example, if you have a journal that your players are supposed to collect all the pages of, you could transfer the 'pages' (chapters) as they find the pages.    
  • The ability to Import/Export manuscripts from google docs, .pdf, .txt, .docx, ECT.
I write a lot across multiple devices and find myself struggling to use the World Anvil editor on mobile devices, so the ability to import from, and export to other formats and directly into google docs without losing any kind of formatting, would be incredible!
  • The ability to link chapters to different calendars/content trees/secrets.
This would be great for those authors like me who are using less of the TTRPG elements and want to provide a vast world for our readers.
  • The ability to add to TO-DO lists from the editor.
As I write, I usually find myself creating a list of new articles and things I need to add as of the new part. The ability to simply directly add to a TODO list would be fantastic.
  • The ability to use variables in the manuscripts.
  • The ability to insert World Anvil Tables, in addition to the regular tables you can already insert.
  • Display associated secrets and articles somewhere on the page of each chapter.
These last three are honestly just thoughts that popped into my head as I was writing this suggestion. I am unsure how they would be useful, but I think they sound cool.

The Team's Response

Hi! First of all, in the future, please ensure that each suggestion contains a single feature suggestion. I appreciate your enthusiasm about Manuscripts and World Anvil, but grouping multiple suggestions in one makes it more difficult for us to discuss and gauge community support.   That said, the following suggestions will not be implemented:
  • Importing from other file types.
  • Linking chapters to calendars, content trees, and secrets.
  • Variables.
  • Display associated secrets and articles.
  The rest of suggestions have been added to a longlist for further discussion and may or may not be implemented in a future update. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Votes Cast

  • +100

    by Kwyn Marie
    on 2023-06-26 05:55

  • +300

    by mahan92
    on 2023-06-25 22:16
    The ability to transfer content from one manuscript to another would be incredible. I'm writing a series and I create a pretty detailed outline before I ever start writing and I would love something that would give me the ability to not to have to recreate it from scratch every time I start a new novel

  • +1

    by A Wild T-Rex
    on 2023-06-25 14:27

  • +300

    by A Filthy Elf
    on 2023-06-22 10:10

  • +300

    by Mikedweb
    on 2023-06-22 02:27

  • +300

    by CrazyEddie
    on 2023-06-21 15:33

  • +300

    by jglavz
    on 2023-06-21 00:38

  • +100

    by jrcsalter
    on 2023-06-19 21:59
    I like the idea of importing a manuscript. I've been manually adding my stories, and it is, quite frankly, tedious. However, I can understand this may be quite an undertaking. Taking an input such as a .doc file, and translating it to something usable in the current system would be very difficult.

  • +100

    by Willow H.R. Harper
    on 2023-06-19 21:05

  • +300

    by UnknownWriter88
    on 2023-06-16 02:06
    yes please!

  • +100

    by Jaen
    on 2023-06-13 03:30

  • +300

    by Kat Chiron
    on 2023-06-12 15:25

  • +300

    by Auron Bladesong
    on 2023-06-12 06:30

  • +300

    by [email protected]
    on 2023-06-12 01:42

  • +300

    by Beta Allistair
    on 2023-06-10 18:23
    Clearer and additional interactions / implementations between Manuscripts and worlds would be nice too.

  • +300

    by RivaliChaos
    on 2023-06-10 14:07

  • +100

    by jmckendry
    on 2023-06-09 17:29
    I love the idea of importing documents from other platforms, since it is hard to write on WA when I'm not home at a computer.

  • +100

    by A Fluffy Cthulhu
    on 2023-06-08 18:32

  • +1

    by barriesaxxy
    on 2023-06-08 06:39
    This may need to be a little more thought out before going through with it? For example, I feel the purple button takes care of the need to add TODOs while working in manuscripts. It's possible other suggestions are already "available" in similar fashion? Though I do think it would be nice to move a manuscript from one world to another, as can be done with articles.

  • +1

    by Rilameth
    on 2023-06-07 17:31

  • +300

    by Akmedrah
    on 2023-06-07 08:51

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