About the Write tab

1. Writing is the centrepiece of Write.studio. You can write:

• short documents (e.g., a blog)
• medium documents (e.g, a report or essay)
• long documents (e.g., a book or thesis)
• any length document is possible

1. After you create a new document the writing editor will automatically open or click on an existing document to quickly open it.
2. Sections are, essentially, mini documents. They get compiled together to create the main document when exporting. This enables re-ordering and chunking your workload to make progress monitoring simple and keep you focused on one-piece-at-a-time.
3. Sections have a type: cover, front matter, body, back matter, appendix. This type controls the header and footer in the preset wizard so you don't have anything to worry about. Let Write.studio do the heavy lifting when it comes to formatting. Check the section settings for this control.
4. The writing editor is a custom wysiwyg editor that you can control via the "Preset style wizard" (i.e., a personalized editor for each document). Apply one of our presets or customize your own. The style can be changed at any time and ALL sections will be automatically updated to ensure consistent and professional formatting.

Monitoring document progress:

1. On the "Dashboard" you can quickly see things that are due or overdue
2. On the "Write" page, there is a:
   • Gallery view: all your active documents (pipeline of work). Each document has a number of icons to update and/or edit key settings
   • Progress view: check or change some key details for a document (e.g., due date and word count)
   • Status view: check on or change a document status (todo, doing, review, done)

Monitoring section progress:

1. After you open a document, there is a sidebar showing:
   • Editor: to return to editing your section content
   • Workflow: check on or change some key details for each section
     • drag-and-drop sections or dividers to re-order your content
   • Status: check on or change the status of each section
   • Print: this provides an overview of all the print setting for all sections in a document. Examine this when you are ready to export to check that everything is as you expect to be "print-ready"

Tips:

• Use the settings to add a target word count, due dates, and labels to help manage your content.
• If the document will be written by multiple people or over a long period of time (e.g., a book or dissertation) create a custom calendar to easily filter for a specific document.
• Chunk writing into small sections to help monitor progress.
• Groups sections into Divider(e.g., Front, Chapter, Back, Appendix).
• Use drag-and-drop to re-order dividers or sections within dividers.
• We recommend using dividers wherever you might have a heading level 1.
• We recommend using sections wherever you might have any lower level heading or images.

See also:

• Adding a section template
• Apply a custom style guide to a document
• Adding custom calendars