Studio notes
These notes explain how different parts of Waxcap™ work, and why we made them the way we did.
Why a daily target?
Why Waxcap suggests 500 words a day, and how rest days keep your streak going on the days you don't write.
How the Stats panel keeps track
What counts toward your daily target, what a missed day does to your streak, and what each part of the Stats panel is showing you.
How version history works
Waxcap saves versions of each document as you write. You can copy a lost paragraph out of an old version or restore the whole thing, and restoring never loses what you have now.
Reference Material and Cut Material
Your notes about the book and the prose you've cut both live in the project, next to the manuscript. Neither counts toward your word count, and neither turns up in the manuscript you send out.
Exporting your book
What each export gives you, from a Word manuscript for an agent to an ePub, and why submission format looks nothing like the page you wrote on.
Focus modes and the split editor
Typewriter Scrolling, Focus Mode and Distraction-Free Mode help you concentrate on what you're writing. The split editor lets you open a second document beside the first.
How iCloud syncing works
Your whole project syncs across your Macs through iCloud Drive: manuscript, notes and version history alike. When two Macs change the same document, nothing is thrown away.
Content Analysis
Content Analysis reads a chapter on your Mac and gives back a synopsis and a list of who and what is in it. It doesn't grade or rewrite the prose.
Annotations and highlights
Annotations are notes to yourself written into the prose. Highlights mark a passage to come back to. The manuscript you send out has neither.
Formatting in the editor
The editor has the formatting a novel manuscript uses, from italics to footnotes, and every export knows what to do with each piece of it.
Why plain markdown?
Your book is kept as plain text files that any Mac can open, so it works with your backups, your iCloud Drive and any text editor.