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Pick a type when you create it: film, series, video, music, live production or writing. The type is not a label, it reshapes the app. It sets the script format, the labels on your arcs, the act markers you start with and the default credit roles, so a music project opens with a lyric sheet and a book opens with a manuscript in a serif.

A new project starts as one page, not thirteen empty tabs. Add what you actually need, when you need it: the + at the end of the tab strip, right-click the project in the sidebar, or the dashed Add a tab card on the project's home page. Removing a tab later keeps everything in it, so you can put it back and find your work where you left it.

There is no toolbar. Hover any line and a handle appears in the left margin, three vertical lines. Click it to change what that line is, or drag it to move the line somewhere else.

Enter gives you the next thing you would logically write. In a screenplay a scene heading leads to action, a character name leads to dialogue, dialogue leads back to a character name. You almost never have to tell it what comes next.

Tab steps the current line forward through the element types for your project, and Shift-Tab steps back, both wrapping around. It is the fastest way to fix a line that came out as the wrong thing.

Two quiet helpers: a thin table of contents rail in the bottom-left corner for jumping around a long script, and a writing companion card in the bottom-right that shows you the character or arc belonging to the line you are currently in.

The Arc Timeline draws every arc as a curve rising from a shared baseline and coming back down, across the whole span of the work. Longer arcs rise higher, so the shape of the thing is visible at a glance.

Drag an endpoint along the axis to change where an arc begins or ends. Drop a key event dot where the story turns. Select several arcs together to group them, and collapse the group when you want the stage quieter.

Every arc has its own page underneath, for a synopsis, collapsible plot points and references. And an arc tagged with a character stops being a line on a chart: clicking it opens that character's hub instead, where their arcs, their lines, their casting and their shots all live together.

A frame in the Storyboard can be linked to a specific block of script. Once it is, the frame floats beside that line while you write, so the picture and the words that describe it stay together even after you rewrite the scene around them.

This is the idea the whole app is built on. A line of dialogue, the frame that illustrates it, the character who says it and the arc it belongs to are one thing seen from four angles, so changing one means the others already know.

Shots live in groups, and groups nest inside groups, in one list. Every shot and every group opens into its own page, with sections you can add and rename: a description, references, linked script blocks, linked boards, whoever is in it.

Give a group a due date and it appears on the project's Calendar automatically, so a shooting schedule builds itself out of the list you were already keeping.

The project's name sits at the top of every page inside that project. Clicking or tapping it takes you to that project's home page.

A small arrow beside the name opens a switcher holding every project you have, each with its own icon, so you can move from one project to another without going back to the home page first. If the other project has the tab you are on, you land on that same tab. On a computer the arrow appears when you point at the name. On a phone or tablet it is always there, and you can press and hold the name instead.

On a computer, right-click the name for that project's own menu: add a tab, or, if the project is yours, move it to Trash. On a phone or tablet, the + at the end of the tab strip adds a tab, and pressing and holding the project's row in the sidebar offers the same two.

On tablets and computers, Back and Forward buttons sit at the top left of the page, just below the sidebar button. Back returns you to the page you were on before and Forward takes you on again. Each is greyed out when there is nowhere to go that way, and Back stops at the first page you opened, so it never takes you out of Kordarna.

Every list in Kordarna behaves identically, including the sidebar: shift-click selects a range, ⌘ or Ctrl-click adds or removes one item, a plain click clears the selection, Delete removes what is selected, right-click gives you the bulk actions, and you can drag to reorder.

The one exception is inside the script editor, where the text is the selection and those rules would fight the words.

Settings, then Export all. It downloads your whole workspace as one dated file, images included, and you never have to ask us for it. Import it back from the same place.

If you ever want to leave entirely, Settings has a Delete account button. It removes your account and everything in it from our servers, and clears this device’s copy of your work. If you are signed in on another device, sign out there as well. Export first: we cannot get any of it back for you afterwards.