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.
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.