Editing Tools

Beyond writing prose, Wonderthrough gives you the working tools you’d expect from a serious manuscript app: a safety net for every revision, ways to restructure scenes, search-and-replace, a distraction-free mode, spellcheck, and a recoverable trash. This page covers all of them.

Scene snapshots (versioning)

Every scene keeps a history of snapshots so you can experiment without fear of losing earlier work.

The version button in the scene’s details bar (for example, v1) opens the snapshot menu.
Choose Save snapshot to capture the scene as it is now; you can give it a name.
Each snapshot lists its version number, when it was saved, and any description. Some snapshots are saved automatically when an AI tool produces a new version; others you save by hand.
Select a snapshot to view that earlier state. A banner reminds you you’re browsing history, and Back to editor returns you to your current draft — viewing a snapshot doesn’t overwrite anything.
Hover a snapshot and choose Compare to see a difference view against your current draft, either unified or side-by-side.

Snapshots are per scene, and a permanently deleted snapshot can’t be brought back, so keep the ones that matter.

Merging and splitting scenes

You can restructure without copy-and-paste.

Split a scene at your cursor: right-click the scene break and choose to split, then name the new scene created from everything after the cursor. The text before the cursor stays in the original; the rest moves into the new scene right after it.
Merge a scene with the one before or after it: right-click and choose the merge direction, then confirm the combined title. The prose joins together and linked characters, locations, and beats are combined. Originals are preserved in scene history, and you may want to re-run any analysis on the newly merged scene.

Find & Replace

Press Cmd+F (Mac) or Ctrl+F (Windows/Linux) to open the find bar. It shows a running match count and lets you step through matches with the arrow keys or Enter / Shift+Enter.

Toggle case sensitivity with the Aa button (off by default).
Expand the replace row to replace the current match, or replace across a wider scope.
The scope dropdown follows where you are: within a single scene, across a folder, or across the whole manuscript. A multi-scene replace asks you to confirm before it runs.

Find & Replace matches text as you type it (no patterns or whole-word-only matching), and case sensitivity applies to the whole search.

Focus mode

When you want the manuscript and nothing else, switch on Focus mode from the aperture button in the editor header. It hides the side panels — the navigation on the left and the details, notes, analysis, and chat on the right — leaving just your prose and the toolbar. Click the button again to bring the panels back.

Spellcheck

Wonderthrough has built-in spellcheck that works the same way on every platform. Misspelled words get a red wavy underline as you write. Words you add to your project’s accepted terms stop being flagged, which is handy for invented names and worldbuilding vocabulary.

Trash and recovery

Deleting a scene, folder, character, or other entry sends it to the Trash rather than destroying it.

The Trash panel lists what you’ve deleted, grouped by item, with when it was removed and how long until it’s automatically cleared.
Restore brings an item back to where it lived, along with anything that was nested inside it.
You can also permanently delete an item from the Trash if you’re sure — that can’t be undone.
Items in the Trash are cleared automatically after a retention window you can adjust in the Trash panel.

If you happen to open something that’s been deleted, Wonderthrough shows a friendly placeholder rather than an error, with a link to restore it from the Trash or to head back to the book or project overview.

For the editor itself and autosave, see Writing & the Editor.
For full-project backups and restoring an archive, see Export & Backup.