Writing & the Editor

The editor is where you actually write. It’s a clean, rich-text page for your prose, and most of what it does is quiet by design: it saves your work for you, keeps your scenes organized, and lets you link characters and places without breaking your flow.

Writing and autosave

Just start typing. The editor is a full rich-text page — you can bold, italicize, set headings, and align text from the toolbar — but it’s meant to stay out of the way while you draft.

You never have to press save. Wonderthrough saves automatically a couple of seconds after you stop typing, and a small status note in the scene’s detail bar tells you where things stand: Saved, Saving…, or Unsaved changes. Your work is also flushed to disk when you switch scenes or leave the page, so nothing pending is ever lost in the handoff.

How scenes work

Your manuscript is built out of scenes. You create a new scene from the book or folder you want it to live in, give it a title, and start writing. Scenes can sit inside folders, which is how you shape chapters, parts, or any grouping that fits your book.

Scene status

Each scene carries a status that tells Wonderthrough how finished it is. You set it from the status control in the scene’s detail bar:

Draft — the default for a new scene. It’s structurally real and part of your book, but still in progress.
Active — the scene is ready, and its full prose participates in the deeper AI analysis tools when you choose to run them. Moving a scene to Active is always your call, never automatic.
Archived — set aside. Archived scenes stay in your project but are kept out of analysis. You can restore an archived scene back to draft whenever you want.

Status is about readiness, not deletion. Nothing is thrown away when you change it.

Sending a scene to trash and getting it back

If you want a scene out of your manuscript entirely, send it to the trash. Trashed scenes aren’t gone — they wait in the trash so you can restore them if you change your mind. When you’re sure, you can permanently delete a trashed scene to clear it for good.

Reading the whole draft top to bottom

You don’t have to read scene by scene. Wonderthrough gives you two collated views that stitch your scenes together into one continuous, editable page:

Manuscript View shows the entire book in order, with every folder and scene flowing top to bottom and clear breaks between scenes. The header shows your running totals, like scene count and word count.
Folder View does the same for a single folder — useful for reading a chapter or part as one piece.

Both views are fully editable, not just read-only. As your cursor moves from one scene into the next, the detail bar follows along and reflects whichever scene you’re currently in. You can also use Find (Cmd+F / Ctrl+F) to search across everything in view at once.

Linking characters and places as you write

When you mention a character or location in your prose, Wonderthrough can connect that mention to the entity it belongs to. Linked names get a subtle tint and underline — amber for characters, a cooler tone for locations — and hovering one shows a small card with the entity’s name and type.

There are two easy ways to link:

Type @ to pull up a quick list of your characters, locations, and other entities, then pick the one you mean. The name drops into your prose as plain text — no clutter, no widgets.
Just keep writing. As you type a name that matches an entity, Wonderthrough can recognize it and link it for you. You can make any of these links permanent from the right-click menu, or remove a link you don’t want.

Either way, the words on the page stay your words. Linking only adds a connection underneath — it never changes your prose.

For reviewing the characters and places Wonderthrough finds in your manuscript, see AI Suggestions & Extraction.
For structuring your world around your scenes, see Custom Entities & Worldbuilding.
For dating your scenes on a custom calendar, see Calendar & Timeline.