Planning

Planning shows how the story is built. All data comes from the same manuscript: change a scene here and it changes in Writing too. The views are designed for big novels as well — hundreds of scenes and dozens of characters.

View	What it gives you
Scene cards	Scenes by chapter: status, POV, summary, plot lines. Chapters can be collapsed
Plot lines	A “lines × chapters” grid: how the plot, subplots and arcs develop
Timeline	Narrative order against world time: flashbacks, parallel scenes, gaps
Characters and Locations	A reference; “Find in Text” suggests who appears in the book
Appearances	Who appears where, chapter by chapter; flags long absences
Relationships	A table of relationships that change over the course of the book
Graph	A character’s surroundings: relationships and shared scenes
Research and Moodboard	The book’s materials and imagery

Filter

Above cards, lines and the timeline there is a shared filter: search in scene text, POV, “Who/where” (scenes that mention a character or location), plot line, status. “Reset” clears everything. The filter is kept when switching between views.

Plot lines

1. New Line — the button at the top of the Plot lines view, or ”+ Line” in the scene’s right panel.
2. Assign a scene — right-click a card → “Plot Lines”, or the line buttons in the scene’s right panel. A scene can belong to several lines.
3. In the grid, a row is a line and a column is a chapter. The “No Line” row shows scenes that have not been assigned yet.
4. The line’s ”…” menu: rename, show only its scenes, delete (the scenes stay).

Find characters in the text

Characters → Find in Text…. Norwid collects frequent capitalised words in the middle of sentences and groups their forms (for inflected languages, e.g. several case forms of the same name). Click Character or Location to add one — name forms are filled in automatically; the eye hides a suggestion. This is a hint, not recognition: review the list.

Appearances

Rows are characters (or locations), columns are chapters. The lighter the cell, the more scenes with them in that chapter. A frame marks an absence longer than the chosen number of chapters — handy for finding “forgotten” characters. Clicking a cell opens that chapter’s cards filtered by the character.

Graph

• Center — choose a character: around them are those they are connected to. Line thickness is how many scenes they share; a solid line is a relationship from the reference.
• Whole network — the 30 most prominent entities, each with its three strongest connections.
• “Shared scenes ≥ N” removes incidental overlaps.

World time

Each scene has a world time (free text), a sort key yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm and a precision. The timeline orders scenes by the key and marks where it differs from the narrative order. Scenes less than 10 minutes apart are treated as parallel.

Mentions

Norwid searches the text for names and their forms as whole words (“Name forms” on the card, comma-separated). The index updates in the background a second after you edit; while it is being built, the left panel shows “Indexing mentions…”.

Not yet available: timeline zoom and lanes, the graph “as of a chapter”, dragging scenes in the lines grid, and series canon.