How these pages work
Each page starts from a problem in the tool you already use and tries to solve it there, and most can be solved without leaving that tool. When that is true, the page says so first.
Only after that does a page say what Tabularia does about the same problem, and where it does not help. Nothing here quotes another product's prices. They change without notice. Every page was last checked against the products it names on the date at its foot.
Long manuscripts
What to switch off, what to split, and what it costs when your editor slows down under a whole novel.
Chapters and structure
Keeping a book in order in the tool you already use, from moving a chapter to reading the whole draft as one.
- Should my novel be one file or one file per chapter?
- How do I move chapters around in Word?
- How do I reorder chapters in Google Docs?
- How do I see the word count for each chapter?
- How do I download or print a whole book from Google Docs tabs?
- How do I read an Obsidian novel as one document?
- How do I organize a novel's chapters in iA Writer?
- How do I turn Notion pages into one manuscript?
- Scrivener feels too complicated. What is simpler?
- Is there a Google Docs template for writing a novel?
- How do I track my novel’s word count in a spreadsheet?
Lost work and backups
Where lost chapters usually still are in the tool you use, how to get them back, and what protects a book in Tabularia.
- Scrivener sync lost my chapters. How do I get them back?
- My Scrivener project won't open
- Word AutoSave replaced my chapter with an older version
- Word crashed and AutoRecover didn't save my chapter
- I saved over my manuscript by accident
- My Google Doc went blank. Is my novel gone?
- My draft disappeared from my notes app
- My writing app lost work after syncing
Versions and drafts
Which copy is current, how to get back what you changed yesterday, and how to try a chapter again without losing it.
Offline and on other devices
What to do when your writing app needs a connection, or does not run on the device you now write on.
Planning and continuity
How to keep the plan, the research, and the series bible from drifting away from the book.
- How do I keep my outline and my draft in one place?
- How do I keep research notes next to my manuscript?
- How do I keep character details straight across a series?
- How do I keep a whole series in one place?
- What goes in a character profile?
- What goes in a series bible?
- How do I reverse outline my draft?
Beta readers and editors
Letting beta readers and editors into a book without handing over the text, and sorting out what they send back.
- How do I share my manuscript with beta readers without giving them edit access?
- How do I organize feedback from several beta readers?
- How do I combine comments from several beta readers in Word?
- My editor uses Word and I write in Scrivener
- Google Docs flagged my manuscript and locked me out
- Is my writing app training AI on my novel?
- What should I ask my beta readers?
Importing and exporting
Getting a manuscript from one program to the next with its chapters, page numbers, and formatting intact.
- I fixed typos in Vellum. Now my Word file is out of date
- How do I start page numbers after the front matter?
- My EPUB export lost its chapter breaks
- Exporting from Pages to Word messed up my manuscript
- My writing app won't export EPUB or PDF
- How do I export an Obsidian novel to Word for my editor?
- Why does Notion's PDF export look so bad?
- How do I get a standard manuscript DOCX out of Ulysses?
- My chapters were lost or reordered when I imported a Word file
- How do I open a Scrivener project without Scrivener?
Try it on your own manuscript
Nothing is metered: as many projects as you like at any length, the outline and minimap to move through them, drafts and markup mode for revising, snapshots to return to, sheets and timelines beside the page, and export to DOCX, PDF, EPUB, HTML, Markdown, plain text and Fountain. Bring in what you have already written and read it back as a book.
The Cloud plan is $18 a month, or $172.80 a year, and adds backup, sync across your devices, sharing a manuscript for review, and publishing your work as a web page — the readers and collaborators you invite do not need a paid account of their own. Tabularia is in Public Beta and shipping steadily; the release notes record what has landed.