Support

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Write to support@plotfable.com — with your macOS version and, if something went wrong, what you were doing at the time. If PlotFable closed unexpectedly, copy the report macOS shows and paste it into your email — it helps a lot.

Getting started

See everything in use: choose Help › Sample Stories and open one of the examples.
Start a story: File › New Story… (⇧⌘N) — blank, or from one of eight structures. ⌘N starts a blank story straight away.
Add a beat: ⌘↩, or right-click a lane on the whiteboard.
Link a setup to its payoff: hold ⌥ and drag from one beat to the other.
Switch views: ⌘1 Whiteboard, ⌘2 Timeline, ⌘3 Emotions, ⌘4 Table, ⌘5 Relationships.

For everything else, read the PlotFable Guide: a short tutorial, then each view in turn.

Common questions

Where are my stories? In the .plotfable files you saved, wherever you put them. File › Open Recent and the welcome window list the latest ones.

Can I undo a mistake? Yes — ⌘Z undoes and ⇧⌘Z redoes, as far back as the moment you opened the story.

How do I get my outline into a writing app? File › Export As offers Fountain (for screenwriting apps), Markdown and a PDF outline; the Export button on the toolbar saves the current view as a PDF (and most views as a PNG image).

What's a red or orange mark on a beat? Red means a plot error: a payoff now comes before its setup. Orange means a story device left hanging, such as a Chekhov's gun that is never fired. The inspector explains which.