Corkline: Novel Story Planner

Corkline is a story planner for novels and long fiction: plan each chapter as scene cards pinned on a corkboard, then write the text inside every card.

▶ A TIMELINE ON YOUR STORY'S OWN CALENDAR
• Give a scene a story date and the Timeline lists every scene in story order, with the time between them (for example "+3 d 2 h").
• Use the Gregorian calendar or build your own: 1 to 30 named months of 1 to 1,000 days, 1 to 100 hours a day and your own year label. Years can be zero or negative.
• Up to 3 calendars and 6 timeline tracks per project, each track dated on one of your calendars — for example Earth and Colony.
• A scene whose story time is earlier than a scene before it in reading order is marked, so you can see every flashback at a glance.
• Rows are never folded into a summary; scenes without a date are listed under Undated.

▶ IDEAS ONTO CARDS IN SECONDS
• Tap +, type a scene idea and press Enter: the card is pinned and the box is ready for the next idea.
• Paste a list and choose "Make N cards": one card per line, list markers removed.
• Import text: paste a manuscript or open a .txt or .md file. Chapters start at "# Title" lines, scenes at "## Title" lines or at break lines (***, * * *, ---). "Chapter 1" lines can count as chapters too.
• A preview shows chapters, scenes and counts before anything is saved.

▶ THE CORKBOARD
• Chapter tabs (Chapter, Act or Episode, depending on the project type) with a check mark on finished chapters.
• Each card shows title, summary, point of view, status (Idea, Outline, Draft, Revised, Done), colour and a count / target bar.
• Long-press a card to drag it to a new place or onto another chapter tab, or use Move…. Undo and Redo cover every structure change.
• A side drawer for characters and places, with your own extra fields. Drag a name onto a card to add it to that scene.

▶ STRUCTURE
• Three-act, Hero's Journey (12 stages), a 15-beat screenplay outline, Kishōtenketsu (4 parts) or your own beats.
• Attach scenes to beats and see where each one really falls in the story, in percent.

▶ WRITE
• A full-screen editor for each scene: serif or sans, four text sizes, light or dark.
• Saves as you type; going back or leaving the app saves at once. Up to 10 earlier versions of each scene are kept, within 2 MB per scene.
• Live count in words or characters; each Chinese or Japanese character counts as one word. Optional daily goal with a streak.
• Find & replace in a scene, split a scene at the cursor, and search across all projects.

▶ EXPORT AND BACKUP
• DOCX, Markdown, plain text or a scene outline, for the whole project or selected chapters. Each file is checked before it is shared.
• A backup file of one project or all projects, kept where you choose. Restoring shows a preview first; newer texts win scene by scene, and when both sides changed, both are kept.

▶ GOOD TO KNOW
• Your writing is stored in the app on this phone and the app uploads none of it. A reinstall or a new phone starts empty unless you restore a backup file, so back up regularly.
• Nothing to sign in to.
• Limits: 200,000 characters per scene, 500 scenes per chapter, 200 chapters per project.
• Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar text is counted per space-separated phrase in word mode; switch to characters for an exact count.
• Ads appear on the Projects screen only: a banner, and sometimes a full-screen ad. Never on the board, timeline, structure or editor.

Recent changes:
Board pins scene cards under chapter tabs; long-press a card to drag it somewhere new.
Timeline puts scenes in story-date order on a Gregorian or invented calendar and flags those Earlier than a scene before it.
Structure shows where scenes land against beats such as Three-act.