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Tools necessary for an author to plan out a plot; things like character arcs, conflict and resolution, timelines, location tracking of characters, there is a lot of cool graphics/graphs/interactive stuff to be done here.

See https://github.com/drusepth/Indent/milestone/22

Starting a general outline of the fields we should expect here... Probably needs quite a bit of polishing/adding/removing before finalized.

Overview
  Name
  Description (could probably fold this into universe description, unless a universe has many
    plots, which they very well could)
  Universe
Contents (read-only, generated by summing up content in Scenes)
  Could probably do some nice (pie) charts here :)

Given how few fields this has (and how closely it is tied to #88), maybe this should just be a different view for Scenes (kind of an overview?).

Feedback dump:

Plotlines: because as you work on turning a pile of characters and a universe into a story, it's useful to remember which plots impact different characters. Just because Joe is busy with his Quest for the Magnificent MacGuffin, he shouldn't forget about his love story with Lisa -- or the fact that Lisa's Dad doesn't think Joe's good enough, and is planning to throw a monkey wrench or three into that Quest to prove he's right!

A romantic subplot might only involve two or three characters; a Big Epic Quest could involve almost every character in a story (cough Lord of the Rings cough). This should be linkable, the same way basic relationships between characters are; from Joe, one-click access to the Quest, and from there, one-click access to every other character involved in it.

I'd really appreciate a section for Plot! That way I could keep track of plot points like Point of No Return, Pinch Points, and the Climax. Or even Acts or Chapters. What happens, when it happens (like a timeline?), why it happens, its effect on the plot/how it's resolved, the primary mood of the scene, what characters/locations/props are involved, importance (major conflict/minor conflict/background/character building/etc). Maybe an option to link in characters from that universe and describe their role in that scene/chapter. I find plot planning the hardest part of novel writing.

Timelines! The hardest part about keeping events in my world straight is that I don't have an easily updatable timeline anywhere. I'm sure you and your team could come up with something that will make all our lives easier!

Having a timeline that allows for creation of new events, graphs amount of time between events, or is able to be separated depending on perspectives of different characters or cultures would be an incredible tool.

Depends on #331 before we can start this.

Covered by the Timelines feature