Deckle, the all-in-one novel writing and formatting app, today released version 1.6, adding faster ways to navigate your story bible, finer control over what actually ships in your compiled manuscript, and a more flexible Outliner for restructuring a book from anywhere inside it.
The Codex now supports filters and collapsible sections, so finding a single character, location, or item across a large project takes seconds instead of scrolling. Character and location templates are also now centrally editable: update a template once, and every entry built from it updates automatically, instead of requiring authors to edit each entry by hand.
Writers can now keep an alternate draft, a chapter that isn’t ready, or a working outline sitting directly alongside the rest of their manuscript, and leave it out of export with a single click. Excluding a folder excludes everything nested inside it too, with a clear marker in the Binder so nothing gets left out by accident.
The Outliner now lets writers pull documents from different chapters onto one board and drag them into a new order side by side, regardless of where each one started out, making large-scale restructuring far less tedious.
Every release exists to remove one more piece of friction between an author and a finished book.
Deckle is an independent, all-in-one writing and formatting app for authors, replacing the combination of Scrivener, Vellum, and Atticus with a single tool: write, organize, and export professional print and ebook files without switching apps or paying multiple subscriptions. Deckle is available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux at $197, one-time payment, with all future updates included.