What is the Book workspace?
The Book workspace is designed for long-form projects. During creation, choose Fiction or Non-fiction so Scribeist can adapt its terminology and starting tools.
Fiction books emphasize characters, world-building, story events, and manuscript continuity. Non-fiction books bring manuscripts, planning, research, references, people, places, organizations, concepts, and factual events together.
Unique features
Mythos - Character & World Tracking
Track characters, locations, organizations, lore, items, and events throughout your story.
Key capabilities:
- Track detailed entity information (names, relationships, traits)
- See where entities appear in your manuscript
- Color-code entities for quick visual reference
- Create parent/child relationships (e.g., Kingdom → Cities → Characters)
- Timeline tracking for character arcs and plot progression
- Choose which profile fields AI may receive with AI Visibility
Planning Templates
Pre-built story structure templates based on popular frameworks.
Start an editable planning document from a guided story structure, diagram, or blank note. Fill in the prompts, rewrite the structure, or add the plan to AI Chat like any other document.
Learn more about Planning Templates →
Color-Coded Entity Highlighting
See where characters, locations, and other entities appear in your manuscript.
How it works:
- Assign colors to entities in Mythos
- Entities appear highlighted throughout your manuscript
- Click highlights to view entity details
- Parent entities pass colors to children (e.g., all Avengers appear in blue)
Learn more about Entity Highlighting →
AI for long-form writing
AI behavior and available context adapt to the kind of book you selected.
Features:
- Prose-focused suggestions for fiction, or research-focused help for non-fiction
- Add selected Mythos entities—or all entities of a type—to AI Chat
- AI receives only profile fields allowed by each entity's AI Visibility settings
- Add manuscript documents, folders, or the full manuscript when exact story context is needed
- Search your manuscript, planning documents, and research when needed
- Creative suggestions for plot and character development
Reading Mode
Read the complete manuscript in document order without opening chapters one at a time. Reading mode supports a continuous layout and a paginated book preview. Open it from the Modes menu in the workspace top bar, and configure its layout under Workspace Settings → Modes.
To read just one act or chapter, open its folder and click Read in the folder overview. Press Esc to leave reading mode.
Board tabs
Book workspaces include these main board tabs:
- Manuscript - Your main writing area (chapters, scenes, acts)
- Planning - Story structure, outlines, and Planning Templates
- Research - Background research and reference materials
- Mythos - Characters and world entities for fiction, or people, places, organizations, concepts, objects, and factual events for non-fiction
- Timeline - Dated events and chronology
The Manuscript, Planning, and Research tabs can contain documents, folders, and canvases. Mythos and Timeline use their own dedicated views.