How Asterysm works

At a glance

1. WritingPlanning

   ScenesPlotlinesCharactersWorld

   Two modes, one book

   Writing is the manuscript, a scene at a time. Planning is the same book seen whole, in four rooms: its scenes, plotlines, characters, and world. ⌘1Ctrl+1 writes; ⌘2Ctrl+2 to ⌘5Ctrl+5 go straight to a room.

2. The letter was meant for @Ve

   Elena VeyrCaptain of the eastern guard

   Aeric VeyrElena’s elder brother, lost holding the ridge

   Type @ to link a name

   Type @ and a name to link a character or a place, right in the prose. Point at the name to see who it is, and Context, beside the page, keeps everyone in the scene at hand.

3. /

   Insert Image…

   Scene Break⇧⌘↩Ctrl+Shift+Enter

   Subheading⌥⌘2Ctrl+Alt+2

   Extract⇧⌘BCtrl+Shift+B

   Centered⇧⌘ECtrl+Shift+E

   Type / on an empty line

   It offers what can go there: a picture, a scene break, a subheading, an extract, a centered line. Pause on an empty line, and a ＋ in the margin offers the same.

4. She had kept every letterBIa¹ he never sent.

   Select words for more

   A bubble offers Bold, Italic, Footnote, Synonyms, and Link. ⇧F7Shift+F7 opens the thesaurus on the word at the caret, offline, in the form the sentence needs.

5. Elena

   Characters

   Elena VeyrCaptain of the eastern guard

   Plotlines

   Elena’s Arc

   Search goes anywhere

   ⌘KCtrl+K finds any scene, chapter, character, or place by its name, and any command by the name the menus give it.

6. Saved a version of “The Arrival”Show History

   Nothing is lost

   Asterysm saves as you write. What you remove goes to the Archive, with Undo, and every scene keeps its history: ⌘SCtrl+S keeps a version now.