Changelog

v2025-08-07

Compatibility Update:

To keep Plottr modern, fast, and secure, we’re upgraded core components that are no longer compatible with older operating systems. 

• For all future versions  Plottr will require Windows 10 or newer.

Users on Windows 8.1 or below can continue to use their current version of Plottr but will not be able to install this or any future updates.

New

• You can now search for backups by matching the date

Improved

• Introduced a new Account Page on the web for easier account and subscription management. We’re gradually rolling this out to all users, starting with new customers.
• Added informational icons in the app to provide extra clarity.
• Pinned plotline positions are now remembered and restored after unpinning.
• Plottr will now wait to quit if it’s busy, preventing the “can’t quit” error message.
• When importing from Scrivener, or Word, an extended color palette is now used to create your plotlines.
• You may notice a minor performance boost from recent foundational upgrades

Fixed

• Clicking a beat title no longer accidentally changes it.
• The “Save As” & Duplicate menu option now works as expected.
• Corrected issues where extra whitespace or newlines would be added when pasting text.
• The Rich Content Editor now shows the correct font size.
• Undo/redo changes are now instantly visible on Scene Cards.
• The Scrivener importer no longer crashes when opening projects with an extra cache file from macOS
• The “Rename” dialog now opens to the correct folder by default.
• Resolved an issue where users could get stuck on “locating document” during startup.
• Prevented a rare bug where making an undo action could break the undo history.
• Corrected various styling issues in dark mode.
• Fixed a bug with receiving custom template updates in Plottr Pro.
• Minor bug fixes

Behind the scenes

• Made renaming and moving files safer to prevent errors.
• Improved how Plottr handles very large Scrivener files to prevent crashes.
• Strengthened the Rich Content Editor to prevent rare errors.
• Enhanced the app’s ability to handle going from offline to online.

v2025-06-20

Fixed

• Bug fixes

v2025-06-19

New

• Added a color switcher for the small timeline view

Improved

• Improved wording on the backup tab column heading

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes

v2025-06-03

Improved

• Generate more plotline colors when adding new plotlines
• Search and Replace now has added icons to jump to locations

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes

v2025-05-09

Improved

• Drag and dropping on the outline view

Fixed

• Fixed Scrivener importer
• Copy and paste into dark mode

v2025-04-30

Fixed

• Fixed Word importing/exporting with bullets and numbered lists
• Navigation Tabs will accommodate full names in all languages
• Fixed an issue where Pro would not delete custom templates
• Fixed other minor bugs

v2025-04-18

New

• Pin option on the full text details section

Fixed

• Where other programs would lock the Plottr file, Plottr will get that lock back
• Plottr will now resume from offline mode

v2025-04-08

New

• Display a list of recently selected colors for the color pickers

v2025-04-05

Improved

• Size of the icon on macOS, reduced size

Fixed

• Export Scrivener will now do accented characters
• Custom templates on Pro can now be deleted
• Outline Full Text able to edit without jumping to beginning
• Fixed minor issue with bugs and improvements

v2025-03-18

Fixed

• Fixed a minor issue with uploading files during Pro onboarding
• Fixed a minor issue with a failed update on Windows computers

v2025-03-13

New

• Account tab in Plottr updated for managing your Plottr Licenses
• Categorized picker lists
• Extra scene metadata on the Full-Text view on the Outline tab
• Add Swedish as a language option
• Offline Mode Beta V2
• About entry in the Menu on Macs

Improved

• Logging into Pro uses boxes that scroll for uploads 
• The font size picker was disabled when turning off the headline styles for a length of text
• Importing Word documents formatting updated styles
• Don’t display the templates tab when there are no longer templates that could be added to a character/card etc.
• Improved the performance of timelines with thousands of scene cards

Fixed

• Plottr incorrectly determined that it needed to reconnect to the internet to check a license
•  Whitespace and newlines were introduced spuriously when copy-pasting from MSWord and Libre Office into Plottr.
• Scene cards dialogue titles wouldn’t change if the dialogue was closed quickly enough.
• Plottr failed to update in Intel-based Macs automatically
• The style of display for the timeline spuriously showed “stacked” when there were no hierarchy tiers
• The remove image icon not displaying on books on the project tab
• Plottr didn’t re-attempt to fetch templates under certain circumstances
• Files on Windows could not be saved it they had colons in the project title
• Select lists (e.g. Places on the card dialog) jumped after each selection
• Prevented Plottr from starting if the default folder was set to a drive that no longer exists
• Remove the “manually sorted” indicator from the Outline Plan View when the card order is manually restored to the timeline’s ordering

v2024-10-11

Fixed

• Title input for scene cards on the Fulltext view. 
• Order of manually sorted scene cards on the Fulltext view, legacy view, and on exported Scrivener and Word documents. 

v2024-10-09

New

• Outline re-imagined (update to how the Outline tab looks)

Fixed

• Some users had problems where templates were not downloading when you updated or installed Plottr. 
• Stacked view + missing header cards, broke the timeline. 

v2024-9-10

Fixed

• Plottr into Plottr import sometimes created multiple custom attributes. 

v2024-8-01

New

• Plottr into Plottr (merge function)

Improved

• When downloading projects from the web, ensure titles are free of extra characters.

Fixed

• Exporting to Word can include images again
• Creating a new file without the default folder selected.
• Backups not working on Pro or Plottr desktop. 
• The version number will be displayed on the install ribbon.

v2024-6-13

Fixed

• If you had the default folder turned off, you were not able to make a new project

v2024-6-4

Fixed

• Indent bullet in the editor
• Drag and drop cards
• Download projects from the web version

v2024-5-30

Fixed

• Templates not updating to Plottr

v2024-5-29

New

• Import (docx) from Word
• Five templates
  • Starter Templates:
    • Story Genius (based on the book Story Genius by Lisa Cron)
    • Heroine’s Journey (based on the book The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger)
    • Bromancing the Beat (based on Romancing the Beat)
  • Project Templates:
    • Idea Folder
    • Story Genius Plot Guide
  • Scene Card Templates:
    • Story Genius
    • Plot Problem Evaluation 
  • Character Template:
    • Story Genius

Improved

• Word export
• Undo and redo

Fixed

• Custom attributes not showing up in the Saved Template list

v2024-5-2

New

• Login for Plottr requires a username and password instead of a license key

Fixed

• Minor bug updates

v2024-3-13

New

• Added word count
• Added fonts everywhere

Improved

• Long titles are now displayed with a smaller font on books in the project tab
• Font style improved in dark mode
• Tag names are no longer cut in the middle of a word

Fixed

• Copy and paste has been fixed
• Bug fix with character notes not displaying for some users
• Fixed where if you delete a saved template it deletes the template in your project
• Other minor bug fixes

v2024-2-1

Fixed

• Pasting formatted text into Plottr
• Some characters were not displaying correctly
• Deleting character attributes
• Searching for scene cards and beats while in a series book

v2024-1-30

New

• Added the search and replace feature
• Added the drag and drop for Notes, Characters, Places

Improved

• Pasting text into editor will remove fonts

Fixed

• Plottr’s wake up from sleep has been fixed
• Can now rename an open project on Pro

Templates Release 2024-1-17

New 

• Hero’s Journey Short Story (Plot Template)
• Character in a Situation Short Story (Plot Template)
• Larry Brooks Short Story (Plot Template)

v2023-12-20

New

• Added the capability to delete a Pro backup

Improved

• Updates to how Scrivener files are imported into Plottr
• Data loading improvements on the Timeline tab

Fixed

• Scrivener export with Attributes are not listed, they are now listed on the character file
• Shortcut keys were not working, they are now fixed

v2023-08-21 (released in Nov. ’23)

Improved

• Handle an infinite number of scene cards, characters, places, and notes in Pro
• Performance and data loading improvements

v2023-07-21

New

• Default Folder feature
• A startup wizard that appears on the first time you open Plottr let’s you choose basic settings

Improved

• Dark mode has been redesigned
• Backups tab on the dashboard has been rebuilt

Fixed

• Closing a file when there are still changes that need to be saved now notifies you and let’s you save those changes and then closes automatically
• Pinned plotline UI when a collaborating on a file
• Styling on stacked cards in medium timeline
• Default font styling for titles and subtitles in the rich content editor

v2023-05-31

New

• Pin plotlines
• OpenDyslexic Font

Improved

• View the Image Gallery from the File menu
• Duplicate files from the dashboard and the File menu
• Reorder template tabs in scene cards and characters
• Duplicate books easily from the Project tab

v2023-04-20

Fixed

• Clean up per-book character attributes when books are deleted

v2023-04-14

Fixed

• Creating projects from templates with Act Structure per book
• Allow creating templates from timelines without any scene cards

v2023-03-31

New

• Act Structure 1.0
  • Three views (or modes), for visualizing the Timeline: Default, Stacked, and Tabbed
  • Restructure entire plot hierarchy with “Restructure Timeline” button
  • Save and apply Timeline templates with structure enabled
  • Available in all projects by default – there is no longer a beta setting to enable it

Improved

• The scrolling panel on the Timeline toolbar has been redesigned 

v2023-03-13

Fixed

• A problem where files that lacked critical data for Plottr to function were prevented from being saved. Plottr now recovers that data automatically.

v2023-03-03

New

• Nine templates, including a new Poetry category within Starter Templates
  • Starter Templates
    • Haiku
    • Limerick
    • Sonnet (Shakesperian)
  • Scene Card Templates
    • Sarra Cannon Scene Roadmap
    • Susanne Lakin Scene
    • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • Character Templates
    • Five Stages of Grief
    • Four Temperaments
    • Freudian Personality Theory
• Create a desktop shortcut to your project easily from the Dashboard and the File menu
• Translations for Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), and Hindi

Improved

• Filters 2.0: Filter menus now only show options you have used
• Bullet Points 2.0: Indented bullet points with multiple levels (up to five)

v2023-01-25

Fixed

• A small issue in the characters-per-book feature that affected users who opened projects on different versions of Plottr between devices

v2022-12-21

New

• Characters per book feature

Improved

• The Files section of the Dashboard now features buttons to open, rename, and delete a project without opening the three dot menu
• The Characters tab remembers what character you were working on when you leave the tab and return
• The rich text editor toolbar now sticks to the top of the screen so you don’t have to scroll to find it in Notes, Characters, and Places
• When creating a new book in a project, a dialog box now opens to save info about the book (and optionally open the book’s Timeline)
• Easily duplicate a project from the project tab
• Many UI tweaks to improve ease-of-use

Fixed

• Various situations where exporting to MS Word would produce an error
• Many performance improvements all across the system and platform
• Downloading a copy of a project via Plottr Pro now downloads the images properly

v2022-08-30

Fixed

• A situation where starting up Plottr without an internet connection would causing freezing issues

v2022-08-25

Fixed

• Renaming a file outside of Plottr and then trying to open it when you have “Always Open Dashboard First” setting off

v2022-08-18

Fixed

• Editing and deleting custom templates

v2022-08-17

New

• 15 Character Templates:
  • Bernard Pivot Questionnaire
  • Big Five Personality Traits
  • Character Arc
  • Clifton Strengths Profile
  • D&D Character Sheet (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • D&D Monster Sheet (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • D&D NPC Sheet (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • DISC Personality Profile
  • James Lipton Questionnaire
  • Marcel Proust Questionnaire
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • Numerology
  • Online Dating Profile
  • Rorschach Inkblot Test
  • Syd Field Character Qualities
• Default Font and Font Size setting for the text editor (via Dashboard > Settings)
• Spell Check setting (via Dashboard > Settings)

Improved

• Export buttons on every tab
• Filter menus now show all elements you can filter by without scrolling the window
• See when an update is available from any project window, not just the Dashboard
• Search documentation more easily from the Help tab in the Dashboard
• Many performance improvements

Fixed

• Autofocus text inputs more consistently
• Styling of duplicate buttons
• Exporting to MS Word is more stable
• Opening backups is handled better
• Many stability fixes

v2022-07-21

New

• Plot Template: Story Engines Blueprint by Joseph Nassise
• Character Template: Magic Blueprint (based on the book Magic System Blueprint by C.R. Rowenson)
• Scene Card Templates:
  • Three Story Scene (based on the the book Three Story Method by J. Thorn)
  • W Scene
  • Goal, Motivation, Conflict

Improved

• Scene card and character templates now include help text (where appropriate)

Fixed

• Displaying scene template attribute descriptions
• Scrolling scene stacks when the plotline is collapsed
• Improved handling of user folders in the backup folder
• Other small improvements

v2022-06-29

New

• Search in the timeline
• Duplicate notes/characters/places/tags

Improved

• Scrivener import handles more situations more gracefully
• Opening non-Pro projects while logged into Pro now prompts you to upload the project instead of failing to open it
• Rendering speed improvements to the Timeline and Outline

Fixed

• Performance improvements that should solve the freezing issue some users have been having
• Rich content editor scrolling issues while highlighting text
• Font size within the rich content editor reflects the selected font properly
• Deleting the first letter in a custom attribute title works
• Choosing a color while creating a tag now sticks
• Opening a file from File Explorer (windows) now updates the last-opened date properly
• The visible line of a plotline always reaches the end properly and doesn’t go past it
• Removing images doesn’t put the underlying data in a weird state
• Typing below images in rich content editors now works
• Lots of other small fixes

v2022-06-02

Improved

• Better error handling with files that have trouble opening

v2022-05-25

Fixed

• An issue that wouldn’t open Plottr if Windows narration was on and images were displaying

v2022-05-24

Fixed

• An issue that wouldn’t let you type in character/scene paragraph type template fields and custom attributes

v2022-05-18

New

• Search within Outline, Notes, Characters, and Places
• Categories for Places
• Duplicate Plotlines
• Transfer Plotlines to the Series View or to other Books within a Project
• Streamer-Friendly Mode to hide your sensitive info when you’re streaming

Improved

• Better indication that you’re on Pro and that your files are being saved to the cloud in the Dashboard (Pro)
• Transfer individual scene cards to the Series view
• Scrivener import now includes the project name

Fixed

• Broken support link in the Help tab of the Dashboard
• Various issues when using Plottr offline

v2022-04-06

New

• Import projects from Scrivener – see documentation here
• Duplicate scene cards
• Transfer scene cards to other books in a project
• Prompt to enter a project name when creating a new project
• Translations for Italian, Portuguese, and Greek

Improved

• Import Snowflake files (Pro)
• Performance improvements
• More elements translated in certain languages
• Act Structure help window updated
• Notification when Scrivener export fails
• Smaller installer size

Fixed

• One-way syncing issues that were solved by turning on the Offline Mode beta (Pro)
• Erroneous notice that you’re not receiving updates (Pro)
• Fix setting images, titles and descriptions of entities when also saving other attributes
• Fix a bug where starting onboarding, cancelling and then starting again caused the app to become stuck
• Update templates dynamically on the template picker
• Fix the length of lines for long timelines
• Vertical Timeline rendering of lines and cards with Act Structure enabled

v2022-03-10

Fixed

• Opening a project with the 3 dots button (Pro)

v2022-03-04

Fixed

• Dashboard hiding projects
• Image caching issue (Pro)
• Scene card editing in the Outline (Pro)

v2022-02-25

Fixed

• “Take Control” buttons not working in certain situations (Pro)
• Delete a custom template

v2022-02-23

New

• Beta feature: Offline Mode (Pro)

Improved

• The project dashboard has been streamlined and redesigned (with more to come)
• You can now add plotline starter templates and custom templates to the Timeline in Flip mode
• The “Settings” button on the Timeline is now called “Structure”

Fixed

• “Save As” now works on web app (Pro)
• Local backup file names (Pro)
• Account screen fixes (Pro)
• Missing file icon (Pro)
• Editing custom template info (Pro)
• Opening local files as the most recent project (Pro)
• Remembering dark mode settings in web app (Pro)
• Ordering cards in a scene stack
• Recent projects display the correct “last opened” dates
• Sort backups by newest first
• Auto-save glitches, including when saving to an external drive
• Opening a downloaded Pro file when not using Pro
• Renaming attributes name no longer clears the value
• In Medium view on the Timeline, buttons appear to create a new plotline and beat
• Allow slashes in attribute names
• In scene card dialog, fixes the beats dropdown with Act Structure on
• Folder search for backups and file count
• Image caching for better performance in rich content editor
• Reload the app when adding or removing a license
• More parts are translated properly
• Many other stability improvements

v2022-02-08

New

• Four new starter templates to plan your books and writing projects:
  • Three Act Structure
  • Story Spine
  • 24 Chapter Novel Outline by Derek Murphy
  • Sleuth’s Journey by Troy Lambert

Improved

• Better German translation

Fixed

• File saving stability fixes for external drives

v2022-01-25

Fixed

• More robust file error checking and handling when saving files

v2022-01-19

Improved

• When using Plottr Pro, the top of the window displays “Plottr Pro” next to your file name

Fixed

• Auto-save error messages
• Exporting numbered-lists with badly formatted children

v2022-01-12

New

• Translated into German, Russian, and Farsi

Improved

• Auto-saving when storing local files in Dropbox and iCloud
• Local backups of cloud projects are named by the project name instead of the project ID
• Plottr Pro onboarding flow

Fixed

• Series view not displaying (Web App)
• Logging out from Plottr Pro
• Expired trial flow
• Word export bugs
• Scrivener export bugs
• Bug in the Rich Content Editor, caused by slashes in Attribute names, when viewing conte