What can you actually do in Scritorio?

Keeps manuscript prose in readable files inside the author's own project folder.

Starts novels, short stories, nonfiction books, reference handbooks, textbooks, and worldbuilding projects.

Organizes acts, parts, chapters, entries, scenes, front matter, back matter, notes, and beat sheets.

Provides familiar rich editing controls while preserving Markdown as the source of truth.

Hides the surrounding workspace when the author wants only the page.

Keeps planning and scene breakdowns connected to manuscript units without publishing them as prose.

Plans every manuscript unit across POV, status, beat, purpose, timeline, location, word targets, and revision notes.

Keeps the book's chosen author identity connected to its publishing metadata.

Adjusts the writing font, size, and weight without changing the manuscript's Markdown.

Keeps the open page visible beside editorial conversations for direct comparison.

Syncs selected titles and encrypted mobile notes without uploading manuscript prose.

Lets the author decide which supporting notes may be considered by AI workflows.

Searches manuscript, Codex, research, coaching, and supporting files in the local book.

Brings an existing manuscript or reviewed Markdown handbook folder into Scritorio.

Adapts the writing workspace to the author's preferred display.

Suggests context-aware alternatives with distinctions in meaning, tone, and intensity.

Explains a selected word as it is being used in the surrounding passage.

Examines a selection for vagueness, repetition, or imprecision and explains whether a change would help.

Adds author notes and editorial markers directly to passages without altering the manuscript text.

Suggests a concise title for a note while leaving the note itself untouched.

Answers questions about the current passage, chapter, or book using retrieved manuscript evidence.

Holds a time-aware, voice-grounded character conversation at a story boundary chosen by the author.

Explores premises, conflicts, consequences, scene possibilities, and alternate directions while labeling speculation.

Reviews structure, causality, stakes, setup, payoff, pacing, and consequence.

Examines desire, agency, emotional logic, relationships, pressure, and character change.

Tests world rules, institutions, locations, technology, terminology, and consequences against book evidence.

Checks whether facts, events, relationships, objects, and timeline details can all be true together.

Responds only to the pages and audience boundary selected, without private notes or future knowledge.

Lets the author adjust a specialist's identity, working guidance, and review posture.

Shows intended context before a request and connects responses to supporting manuscript locations.

Stores advisor and character conversations inside the local book project.

Creates a concise, manuscript-grounded chapter synopsis for planning and review.

Diagnoses one craft target, proposes a bounded task, reviews the attempt, and recommends a next revision.

Saves prompts, constraints, rubrics, submissions, feedback, revisions, and reflections as project files.

Moves exercises through active, submitted, reviewed, revised, completed, or archived states.

A 22-module draft curriculum for developing, drafting, reviewing, and revising a complete short story.

Uses neutral exercises or the current book while keeping practice noncanonical by default.

Carries author-confirmed goals, keeper passages, lessons, insights, and practice history across books.

Will extend guided learning into deeper fiction and nonfiction paths.

Stores local records for characters, locations, organizations, items, concepts, events, and style rules.

Tracks role, relationships, appearance, motivation, conflict, arc, secrets, continuity notes, aliases, and images.

Provides author-controlled voice, worldview, interiority, and stance for character conversations.

Organizes portable entries with multiple categories, tags, aliases, structured details, sections, and image galleries.

Finds names and aliases across the manuscript, counts appearances, and flags ambiguous matches.

Surfaces evidence-backed people, places, organizations, objects, concepts, events, and style material missing from the Codex.

Turns suggested entries and updates into changes the author must review before they become canon.

Finds relevant manuscript and Codex evidence without treating every note as equally authoritative.

Stores sources, claims, glossary terms, index terms, research notes, quotations, excerpts, and ideas.

Distinguishes story canon, source-backed claims, project authority, and mixed evidence.

Shares selected canon and style context across books while preserving book-specific manuscripts.

Will find conceptually related passages even when they do not share exact words.

Shapes general nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, reference, technical, textbook, and academic books around their actual work.

Keeps structured source metadata and imports BibTeX, RIS, and CSL JSON records without hiding the original research trail.

Connects manuscript citations to source records through durable citation keys and page or section locators.

Finds missing keys, unrecognized citations, malformed references, and footnotes that cannot be resolved before export.

Records a claim, its manuscript location, verification state, and the sources or project canon that support it.

Requires factual findings to identify their evidence basis and prevents invented citations or unsupported verified language.

Builds bibliography back matter from sources actually cited by the manuscript rather than every item in the research library.

Maintains preferred terms, definitions, index hierarchy, cross-listing, and manuscript references as portable project records.

Produces reviewable bibliography, glossary, and index documents that can join preview and export when the author includes them.

Adds evidence, reference-book, textbook, and subject-aware editorial roles suited to the project's profile and authority model.

Captures named versions of the author-owned project and shows what changed.

Returns to an earlier book state only after the author explicitly chooses it.

Moves manuscript and project material through recoverable trash workflows.

Preserves conflicting edits rather than overwriting newer manuscript text.

Exports and imports a project archive without making Scritorio the only route to its files.

Recreates search and metadata indexes from the author's project when needed.

Keeps conversations, editorial evidence, and operational history with the book on the author's machine.

Assembles included manuscript units into a reading-order preview.

Produces a reviewable PDF from the selected manuscript structure and publishing settings.

Produces an editable editorial handoff from included manuscript units.

Builds an ebook with navigation, metadata, optional pages, images, and validation support.

Identifies missing metadata, unresolved production tasks, and export issues before release.

Develops diagrams, maps, timelines, concept art, covers, and interior-image directions with local provenance.

Will carry approved cover, illustration, figure, and layout assets into production-ready packages.

Plans voices, pronunciations, segments, review passes, and local audio outputs.

Will check packages against services such as IngramSpark without locking the book to one vendor.