The editor

The Write view is where you spend most of your time. It is a rich-text editor tuned for prose: the formatting you need and nothing you don’t, so the page stays quiet and the words stay first.

Writing and formatting

Type and your text is saved as you go. For emphasis, use the familiar shortcuts, Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italic (Cmd+B and Cmd+I on a Mac). PullAtlas keeps the formatting palette deliberately small, bold, italic, headings, lists, and scene breaks, which keeps a manuscript consistent and exports clean.

The slash menu

Type / at the start of an empty line to open the slash menu, a quick way to change a block without leaving the keyboard. It is also how you insert a scene break.

Focus mode

When you want nothing but the page, turn on focus mode. The surrounding interface fades away and the current line stays centred and calm. Press Esc to leave it again.

Autosave and snapshots

Your work saves automatically as you write, so a lost tab never costs you a paragraph. A Save control sits in the toolbar as well, for when you want the reassurance of saving by hand. Alongside autosave, PullAtlas keeps snapshots, points in time you can look back at, so you can experiment freely and still recover an earlier version of a chapter. Comparing and restoring versions is covered in Draft compare.

Comments

Leave yourself a note without touching the prose. Comments live beside the text and are perfect for “fix this later” markers, questions, and revision notes that shouldn’t end up in the manuscript.

Your Atlas, in the prose

As your Atlas fills up, the editor can quietly underline the names it recognises, a character, a place, a faction, so a mention is one hover from its full entry, and one click from opening it beside the manuscript. The hover card answers as of the chapter you are in: a character’s tracked facts show as they stand at that point in the story, not as they end up, so revising chapter five never spoils you with the chapter-thirty world. It is a gentle way to keep the world at your fingertips while you write, and you can turn it off in the format options if you prefer a bare page.

The connection runs both ways: every entry lists its mentions, each chapter that names it, with the surrounding line, and a click lands you on that very sentence in the editor. “Where did I establish that?” becomes a lookup instead of a search.

The Atlas also grows from the prose itself: select a phrase and the toolbar that appears offers Add to Atlas, which starts a new entry from the selection, and Record a change, which notes what just changed for someone already tracked, either as a plain state or as a fact like age or location. Both anchor to the chapter and scene under your cursor, so capture costs one gesture instead of a trip to another view.