Planner

Planner is where you shape the project.

Use it to organize beats, chapters, and scenes, track scene purpose, and decide what needs work next.

# Understand the Structure

A Vespers project has three structural levels.

• Beats are the largest story units.
• Chapters live inside beats.
• Scenes live inside chapters.

You can rename, move, create, and delete structure as the project changes.

# Plan with the Outline Grid

The Outline grid is the detailed planning view.

Use columns to capture the information that helps you make decisions: Purpose, Setting, Conflict, Stakes, Outcome, or your own custom fields.

You do not need to fill every cell. Empty space is fine. The grid is there to hold what is useful.

# Set Your Columns

The default columns should help you understand why a scene exists and what pressure it carries.

Vespers starting columns are:

• Purpose
• Setting
• Conflict

Change the order, hide and show columns, or add your own.

# Cards

Cards give the outline a looser view.

Use them when you want to scan scenes as movable story pieces rather than rows in a grid. Cards are useful during restructuring, sequencing, and early planning.

# Check Progress

Planner → Progress shows scene status, word counts, recent activity, sessions, and open marks.

Planner → Progress is ideal for finding scenes needing attention. From there, open the scene or send it to Focus.

# Send Work to Focus

Send a scene or outlining task to Focus when it should become today's intention.

Sent work appears in Focus as an intention.