Project Metadata

Alongside per-document frontmatter, a project itself carries a handful of project-wide fields — a Title/Subtitle/Author, a one-line Point, a Logline, a What if premise question, and a longer Synopsis — for the book as a whole rather than any one document.

Rather than opening yet another dock tab, these reuse the same Metadata dock Document Metadata already uses: click the root row at the very top of the Binder (the project itself) and the Metadata dock switches over to this form instead of a document’s frontmatter. Clicking any document row switches it back.

• Title and Author are the same fields the Export dialog’s Title/Author use — editing them here or there keeps both in sync.
• Subtitle feeds into export the same way — see Export for exactly where it shows up in each output format.
• Point, Logline, What if, and Synopsis are new fields with no other home yet; they don’t currently appear anywhere in an exported DOCX/EPUB/PDF.

Like Document Metadata, there’s no Save/Cancel step — edits apply as you type. Point is a single-line field, same as Title/Subtitle/Author; Logline/What if/Synopsis evenly split whatever vertical space is left in the tab below it. Synopsis (the field most likely to run long) keeps its scrollbar always visible, while Logline/What if only show theirs once there’s actually more text than fits.

Project metadata and Sync

When a project is synced, its project-wide fields — everything on this page, plus folder roles, binder order, story cards, bookmarks, colors and whether the project’s images and PDFs sync — follow you between your devices. A few settings deliberately stay on each device: whether git support is on, whether the project’s plugins are enabled, the session and daily word counts, and the Writing Streak switch and schedule.