Changelog
What has changed, newest first. Only what a writer would notice.
- Rescriptus has a public site: this one, with a tour of the features, help articles, and draft privacy and terms pages.
- The app is now called Rescriptus.
- You can start writing without an account. Your project stays in your browser, and you choose a sample: a novel, short stories, non-fiction or nothing yet.
- You can keep your project in a folder on your computer, in Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers on a computer. A project kept in this browser comes with you when you move it.
- Import from Word, Markdown, plain text or a zip, with a preview before anything is added.
- Export a book as a Word manuscript or an EPUB, with an Export dialog. Markdown and plain text too.
- Download everything as a zip of plain files, and restore from one.
- Find and replace in a chapter. Press Ctrl+K to jump to any book, chapter, wiki page or note, or to search your whole project.
- Bold, italic and scene breaks from the keyboard or the selection menu, and an optional live preview that hides the Markdown symbols.
- Wiki entries open in a slide-over beside your chapter, so you do not lose your place.
- Rename, move, delete and duplicate books, chapters, wiki pages, categories, notes and folders, each with an Undo.
- When a file changes somewhere else, edits to different words are merged without a question. When the same words changed, you can compare the versions side by side and choose.
- A chapter can be edited in one tab at a time, so two tabs cannot quietly overwrite each other.
- History shows what changed in each version, and lets you restore the whole version or just one passage.
- A new look: self-hosted fonts, clearer status marks, light and dark pages, and a calmer editor with a focus mode and collapsible panels.
- A layout built for phones and tablets: a bottom bar, drawers, a formatting bar above the keyboard and 44-pixel touch targets.
- One save label, in the same words everywhere. Your words are journalled on your device first, retried on a bad connection, and kept in a recovery page if they cannot be saved anywhere.
- Names and file names work in any script. Files that are not UTF-8, with a byte order mark, or with Windows line endings are never damaged.
- Dialogs replace the browser’s own pop-ups, and work with the keyboard and screen readers.
- Disconnecting from GitHub now removes the project from the device, and can also remove Rescriptus’s access at GitHub.
- Stricter security: a content security policy, no images loaded from other websites, and rate limits on the sign-in routes.
- GitHub projects load faster, and idle refreshes cost no GitHub rate limit.
- Typing stays quick in large projects.
- Storage on GitHub: sign in with GitHub and keep your project in a repository of your own.
- In the hosted version, your writing goes from your browser to your storage and not through the server.
- A fresh start is cleaner: neutral wording, starter wiki categories, generated book covers and empty repositories handled.
- Fixes for several ways text could be lost in the editor and the file format.
- Syncing, outside-edit guards, notes and a first phone layout.
- The writing tool became its own project, with a clean file format and ways to create books, chapters, wiki pages and notes.
- The first version: a library, a dashboard and a wiki for your story, built as a spike.