Getting Around
A quick map of the chrome — how you move between books, worlds, and tools without losing your place.
ChapterMuse keeps navigation quiet and consistent. A slim title bar sits at the very top of the window; the ChapterMuse wordmark there is also the app menu. Inside a book, three small menus on the right — Story, Manuscript, and Review— gather every panel and tool by what you're doing. And many panels can pop out into their own window.
Title bar, the three tool menus, and pinned books
The Title Bar
- The ChapterMuse wordmark opens the app menu — jump to Story World, Manuscripts, Characters, Locations, Factions, Items, Universes, Museiki, Gallery, Research, and Export
- A Search button opens Story Recall to find anything across your whole project (Ctrl S)
- Pinned books appear as quick-links, so a book you're living in is always one click away
- Standard window controls (minimise, maximise, close) sit at the far right, and the whole strip is draggable to move the window
The Three In-Book Menus
Open a book and three round buttons appear at the top-right. Each gathers a related set of panels, so you always know where to look.
- Story — your world: Characters, Profiles, Connections, Locations, Factions, Items, plus Plot Grid, Chronos, Mind Map, and Scene Designer
- Manuscript — working with the text: Search, Find & Replace, Glossary & Name Links, Snippets, and Research
- Review — feedback on your writing: Chapter Check, Chapter Analysis, Chapter Pulse, Prose Metrics, Word Cloud, Manuscript Lens, Podcast, and Read aloud
The Tools Strip & Chapter Drawer
- A central Tools strip holds Read / Edit / Focus mode, Chapter Notes, the Outliner button, the workspace-view picker, your type controls (font, size, spacing), bold / italic / em dash, copy & paste, a "highlight story-world names" toggle, a live word count, undo / redo, Chapter History, Revision Passes, and Targets & Writing History
- The chapter drawer (left) is quick structural navigation; the Outliner is the persistent planning panel for chapters, scenes, intentions, and linked material
- Your avatar (top-right) opens Theme & Page, Background Zen, your Credits balance, Settings, and Sign out
Podcast
Open Podcast from the Review menu to hear Miles and Milly discuss either a chapter or the wider Story World. Every episode for the current book appears together in one newest-first library—there are no separate source tabs. Story World episodes carry their own world-map artwork, so they remain easy to recognise at a glance.
- Create episode opens on Chapter by default, with Chapter and Story World as the first choice
- The chapter picker appears only for a Chapter episode and defaults to the chapter you are reading
- Chapter and Story World recordings stay together, with the newest episode first
Pop-Out Windows
The panels in the Story menu — Characters, Profiles, Connections, Locations, Factions, Items, Plot Grid, Chronos, Scene Designer, and Mind Map — can each detach into their own window, so you can work on your world side-by-side with your manuscript. Hover a menu row and choose Open in a new window; close the pop-out and it slots neatly back into the editor.
Pin a book from the chapter drawer to add it to the title-bar quick-links — perfect for the manuscript you're focused on this month. Prefer the keyboard? Press Ctrl K to open the command palette and run any of these from one place — see Command Palette & Shortcuts.