Snippets
A pocket for the lines you're not ready to cut — save prose aside and reuse it whenever it fits.
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Not every good sentence belongs where you wrote it. Snippets let you set a passage aside without deleting it — a killed darling, a description you'll want later, a recurring phrase. Save it, organise it by category, and drop it back into any chapter when the moment comes. Formatting is preserved.
✦Quick start
- 1Drag to select a passage across paragraphs, then right-click and choose Save as snippet; give it a name and category. With nothing selected, the whole paragraph is saved.
- 2Open the Snippets panel from the Manuscript menu (or press Ctrl J).
- 3Browse or filter your snippets by category.
- 4Choose Add to chapter, then pick the exact drop position in the manuscript.
Working With Snippets
- Save exactly the selected text, including partial first and last paragraphs, bold, italic, and paragraph breaks
- Drag forwards or backwards across paragraph editors without changing a setting; the normal right-click menu works across the whole passage, including formatting, copy, cut, story-world actions, Muse, and saving a snippet
- Organise snippets into categories you create and manage
- Filter and browse the library from the Snippets panel
- Insert a snippet through guided drop positions between paragraphs; each saved paragraph becomes its own block, including empty paragraphs, with one undo action for the insertion
- In Split editor, choose a drop position on either open chapter
- Delete snippets you no longer need
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Treat Snippets as a safety net for revision. Instead of hesitating over a cut, stash the line — it's out of your way but never truly gone.