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Stories & the Manuscript

A story is the top-level unit of your writing project — a single novel, novella, or narrative. Inside a story lives your manuscript: the actual prose, organized into Parts, Chapters, and Scenes. This page covers creating a story and working with its structure.

Creating a story

Open the Story Teller panel and create a new story. A story has:

FieldNotes
TitleRequired — the name of your story
GenreOptional
SynopsisOptional — a short description you can fill in later
StatusWhere the story is overall: outlining, drafting, revising, or complete
Target word countOptional — used for progress tracking on the Dashboard

When you create a story, Omni Core builds a starting structure for you: an opening Part, Chapter, and Scene in the manuscript, plus a set of story-element topics — Timeline, World, Characters, and Places — ready to fill in (see Story Elements ).

The manuscript tree

Your manuscript is organized as a tree:

  • Parts are the largest divisions (for example, the three acts of a novel).
  • Chapters sit inside Parts.
  • Scenes sit inside Chapters and hold the actual prose.

You navigate this tree in the Story Teller panel. Each Scene is a document you open and write in the Document Editor . Behind the scenes, your manuscript is stored as ordinary Markdown files on your own computer — one file per scene, in folders for Parts and Chapters — so your writing is always in a portable, future-proof format you own.

Adding and arranging

You build out the tree with the context menu on any Part, Chapter, or Scene:

  • Add a new Part, Chapter, or Scene
  • Insert above or insert below an existing item, to slot new material into the middle
  • Set status on a scene (see below)
  • Copy reference — copies a @path handle to the scene that you can paste to the assistant to point it at that scene
  • Open in file explorer — reveal the underlying file on disk
  • Delete

Items are numbered in gaps of ten (Part 10, Part 20, Part 30, …). The gaps exist so you can insert a new item between two existing ones without renumbering everything — inserting between 10 and 20 simply creates 15. The numbers keep your manuscript in order; they are not chapter titles.

Scene status

Every scene carries a status so you can see at a glance how far along your draft is:

  • Drafted — a first pass exists
  • Revised — you have gone back over it
  • Needs Attention — flagged for more work
  • Final — done

Statuses show as colored chips in the manuscript tree and feed the Scene Status summary on the Dashboard.

Manuscript limits

The free and base tiers cap the number of stories, Parts, Chapters, and Scenes. Story Teller Pro (and the bundle) lift these to unlimited. If you hit a limit, Omni Core tells you which one and how to upgrade — see Licensing & Trial .

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