Here, the informational ice-berg of your story and all parts of Papyrus come together:
The Navigator shows you the structure of your story and helps you keep track of your writing.
The Organizer is your in-depth-tool for whenever you really want to dive deep into the composition of your story.
The Navigator–Reach your Destination
At the core, the Navigator is the overview of your chapters. A permanent table of contents alongside your text. Look up where you are at in your project at any time, and what happens before and after the current text passage.
The Navigator can do much more, though:
It shows you helpful information about the status of your story parts and lets you rearrange or customize any and all story elements.
You can create scenes or events as important points in your narrative.
Scenes are defined passages of plot, events are important points of time within your story. These elements serve to give your story visible structure for you, without being disclosed to the reader.
Chapters with scenes and characters.
Highlight individual parts in the Navigator until you have the perfect overview. For that, colors and text styles are available. Status icons help you keep track of the meaning, importance and state of your chapters, by using symbols for “romantic”, “violent”, “unfinished” or “edited”, for example.
Scenes and events show relevant parts of your story.
All information has its place: You can also store notes for chapters, make comments and keep background information. A glance into the Navigator in combination with the Character Database will even tell you where (and how much) your book’s characters play a part.
The chronological sequence of your story is tracked as precisely as you wish. Build the Chronology in the Papyrus Timeline and then notice the individual times displayed in the Navigator.
As always, you can choose your preferred view. You can switch everything on and off individually, until your Navigator is optimally configured for your needs.
The Navigator and your text directly influence each other. You can edit the structure of your book on the fly. Moving, creating or deleting chapters and scenes within the Navigator will automatically result in the corresponding style and format changes in your text.
The Papyrus Author Navigator presents your book in a clear overview–alongside your text.
Bestselling Author Andreas Eschbach
Ben Brown
Claudia Winter
Thomas Sand
Bernhard Hennen
The Organizer–Architect of Your Book
How do you keep an in-depth overview of the whole architecture of your story? With the Organizer, you control everything about your project that is relevant: the structure of your chapters, scenes and anything related.
Keep your chapters coherent with ease. Additional information such as internet research, appearances of your characters, plot threads, start times and much more is clearly displayed.
How a book looks in the Organizer.
Everything is connected to your text and the other Papyrus planning tools like the Timeline and the Thinkboard.
The Organizer has a dedicated “abstract” section for a short summary text, which serves as background information for your chapter or your scene.
Text statistics show you the volume of text, words per chapter, etc. This way you can check whether the dramaturgically important points of your story–introduction, plot twists, ending, etc.- are in the right place.
But “view” isn’t everything: The Organizer lets you plan and reshape your story. Create new scenes or delete them, move them around. Papyrus takes care of moving the corresponding parts of your text in your document. You’ll just have to write the content.
Move scenes and chapters in the Organizer.
You can also create new Timeline threads in the Organizer and assign your chapters appropriately. You can even create new characters from here and plan their part in future scenes.
Threads in the Organizer
The Organizer lets you keep full control over your project. 