Dabble is a comprehensive and user-friendly writing tool specifically designed to assist novelists and writers in all stages of the writing process, from plotting and planning to writing, editing, and publishing.
What Dabble Does
Dabble is a cloud-based writing platform that allows writers to work on their manuscripts from any device, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones, thanks to its seamless cloud sync feature. This ensures that writers can access and update their work from anywhere, at any time, without the hassle of transferring files or worrying about data loss.Key Features and Functionality
Plotting and Planning Tools
- Dabble offers a robust Plot Grid that enables writers to visualize their story’s macro structure. This includes plotting main storylines, subplots, and character arcs. Writers can rearrange plot points, add notes, and track timelines, locations, and points of view with ease.
- The Story Notes section allows for detailed character profiles, world-building notes, and research links, all organized in a straightforward and accessible manner.
Writing Features
- Focus Mode: Dabble’s focus mode helps writers stay concentrated by automatically fading away toolbars and other distractions, creating a distraction-free writing environment. This feature can be toggled on and off as needed.
- Typewriter Scrolling and Auto-Fade: These features enhance the writing experience by keeping the text centered on the screen and minimizing distractions.
- Goal Setting: Writers can set daily and project-wide word count goals, track their progress, and adjust goals dynamically based on their writing schedule. Dabble also supports NaNoWriMo word count syncing.
Organization and Editing
- Drag-and-Drop Organization: Scenes, chapters, and sections can be easily rearranged using a drag-and-drop interface, making manuscript organization simple and intuitive.
- Editing Tools: Dabble includes features like find and replace, split and join chapters and scenes, spelling, grammar, and style checks, as well as markup tools such as comments, text highlighting, and strikethroughs.
Backup and Collaboration
- Cloud Storage and Backup: Dabble provides redundant backups, both online and offline, ensuring that work is never lost. The cloud sync feature keeps all devices updated in real-time.
- Co-authoring: Dabble supports collaborative writing, allowing multiple authors to work on the same project simultaneously.
Publishing and Sharing
- Export Options: Writers can export their manuscripts to Word, share their work on the web, and include book covers and chapter images.
- Sharing Goals Progress: Writers can share their writing progress with others, helping to stay motivated and accountable.
Additional Features
- Templates and Formatting: Dabble offers various templates and formatting options to help writers create professionally formatted books. It includes features like chapter auto-numbering, book formatting options, and font selection.
- Author Helps: Tools such as a thesaurus, word and page counts, and a ‘read to me’ feature are also available to assist writers in their work.